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Ayersville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Highland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43512. The Survey maps it on the Ayersville quadrangle.

Ayersville within Defiance County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Ayersville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ayersville, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 250 shown

Museums hold 250 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ayersville between 1858 and 1974: 237 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Angle, E. (Eric) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Angle, E. (Eric), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hoschak, J. (John), Athearn, Herbert D. 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 Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)1908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
A photograph of the species Trifolium subcaulescens, not of this specimenTrifolium subcaulescens A.Gray1858J. S. NewberryFort Defiance
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Dipsacus fullonum, not of this specimenDipsacus fullonum L.1892Collector(s): William Sayer MoffattDefiance
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893not recordedDefiance, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893U.S. Fish CommissionDEFIANCE, OHIO
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893P. KirschAnglaize River, Defiance
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedDefiance, Auglaize River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893not recordedMaumee River, Defiance, Ohio
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschMaumee River, Defiance, Ohio
A photograph of the species Labidesthes sicculus, not of this specimenLabidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)1893P. KirschMaumee River, Defiance, Ohio

All 250 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ayersville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Indiana Briquetting/ Defiance, OhioIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Defiance County

Storms nearby

4 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Ayersville in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindAyersville$10,000Utility poles and power lines blown down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAyersville$5,000Power lines down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAyersville-Emergency management officials reported the collapse of the second story of a residence. A barn was also blown down.
November 2002Tornado (F0)Ayersville-This tornado originated in Van Wert county and moved across Paulding and Putnam counties before entering the extreme southwest corner of Defiance county about 5 miles southeast of Ayersville. NWS ground and aerial survey found the tornado was skipping, and produced F0 damage to five homes, some trees and a few barns and outbuildings. The tornado then exited Defiance county about 4 miles southeast of Ayersville.

Every storm recorded in Defiance 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
Countryside Estates1.6 miles12
Midway (historical)2.7 miles12
Spring Meadows3.6 miles12
Independence4.2 miles12
Southerton4.3 miles12
Defiance4.9 miles12
Williamstown5.4 miles12
North Town Estates5.9 miles12

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 AyersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133504The 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 1064368. 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.

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.