Alvordton, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1913 1990

Alvordton fell from 305 to 200 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1913 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1944 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000

The County of Williams : a History of Williams County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days, with Special Chapters on Various Subjects, Including Each of the Different Townships ; Also a Biographical Department, published 1905 names this settlement in its chapter on Mill Creek Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Alvordton between 2018 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Franklin Junction
• Primrose
• Pioneer

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 68 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alvordton between 1893 and 1974: 68 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Cameron, Cameron, J. B., DeRoth, Gilbert & Cocanour and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854	1946	H. Price	Northwest Township, Nettle Creek
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township
	Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township
	Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township
	Notropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township
	Notropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township
	Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township
	Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1939	Cameron, J. B.	Beaver Creek, Sec 21 of Jefferson township, ~4.9 mi SE of Holiday City, Jefferson township
	Notropis cornutus chrysocephalus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1939	Cameron, J. B.	Beaver Creek, Sec 21 of Jefferson township, ~4.9 mi SE of Holiday City, Jefferson township
	Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)	1939	Cameron, J. B.	Beaver Creek, Sec 21 of Jefferson township, ~4.9 mi SE of Holiday City, Jefferson township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1940	Cameron	St. Joseph R. - Maumee R., W. Branch St. Joseph R.

All 68 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alvordton in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Williams County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064318. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.