Beaverdam, Ohio

Beaverdam fell from 382 to 319 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.

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1986

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.

• 1907 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Beaverdam quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Beaverdam quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Beaverdam quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 173 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beaverdam between 1893 and 1974: 153 Animalia, 19 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Amstutz, K., Bezdek, H. 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
	Mycena corticalis A.H.Sm.	1941	L. O. Gratz	Bluffton
	Medicago sativa L.	1961	Robert H. Gray	1 mile west of Lafayette.
	Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1893	not recorded	Cloverdale, Sugar Creek
	Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)	1893	PH Kirsch	Sugar Creek, 2 miles north of Lima; Maumee River dr.
	Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1893	P. Kirsch	Lost Creek, Lima, Ohio
	Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)	1893	not recorded	Lima, Sugar Creek
	Nerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Lima, Sugar Creek
	Regina septemvittata (Say, 1825)	1893	not recorded	Lima, Sugar Creek
	Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Lima, Sugar Creek
	Amanita frostiana (Peck) Sacc.	1902	C. W. Dawson	Lima
	Amanita rubescens Pers.	1902	C. W. Dawson	Lima
	Amanita vaginata (Bull.) Lam.	1902	C. W. Dawson	Lima

All 173 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beaverdam: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Every working recorded in Allen County

The National Weather Service names Beaverdam in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

Every storm recorded in Allen 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 1058166. 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.