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Andersonville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45601. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Andersonville quadrangle. 778 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Andersonville within Ross County

Population over time

2 figures

Andersonville fell from 779 to 778 between 2010 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. 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.

YearPeople Change
2010779
2020778-1 (-0%)

Then and now

1912 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Andersonville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Andersonville, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 sheets

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.

Fires nearby

3 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Andersonville between 2012 and 2020, burning about 19 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 February 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources16010
18 November 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2826

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,731 shown

Museums hold 1,731 specimens collected within 10 miles of Andersonville between 1845 and 1975: 1,273 Animalia, 349 Fungi, 102 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. Cronquist, A. Miller 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131895F. L. S.Ross County
Specimen of Puccinia tanaceti DC.Puccinia tanaceti DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
Specimen of Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum dumosum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom1845L. L. Pontius3 mi E of Kingston.
A photograph of the species Passiflora lutea, not of this specimenPassiflora lutea L.1885Safford, William EdwinChillicothe
A photograph of the species Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae, not of this specimenAlbugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle1896Selby, A. D.Chillicothe
Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.1896Selby A. D.Chillicothe
A photograph of the species Elanoides forficatus, not of this specimenElanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Seip, J. (John)Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901not recordedRoss, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophophanes Kaup, not of this specimenLophophanes Kaup, 18291901Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Armillaria mellea, not of this specimenArmillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.1902Hard, MironChillicothe
A photograph of the species Clitocybe cartilaginea, not of this specimenClitocybe cartilaginea (Bull.) Bres.1902Hard, MironChillicoth

All 1,731 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Andersonville: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blazer QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
N3 Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
N3 Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 6 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plant Number 6 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ross County

Storms nearby

4 since 2005

The National Weather Service names Andersonville in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2008: 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007HailAndersonville$5,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAndersonville$3,000Large tree limbs were downed in Green and Union Townships.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAndersonville$2,000no account filed
November 2005HailAndersonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ross County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
View (historical)2.7 miles14
Kinnikinnick3.0 miles13
Delano3.2 miles13
Metzger3.7 miles13
Hopetown3.9 miles13
Pleasant Valley4.1 miles14
Eustis (historical)4.3 miles15
Courtright (historical)4.6 miles13

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on AndersonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5694767The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064327. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.