Bethesda, Ohio

Bethesda fell from 1,256 to 1,211 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 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1962

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.

• 1903 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Bethesda quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Bethesda quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Bethesda quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Goshen 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 7 fires within 5 miles of Bethesda between 2002 and 2014, burning about 39 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:

• Badgertown
• Belmont
• Morristown
• Egypt
• Great Western
• Lloydsville

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 222 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bethesda between 1877 and 1975: 184 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 10 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K. 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
	Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
	Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1971	Cusick, A.W.	disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
	Hamamelis virginiana L.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	St. Clairsville Rd
	Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1884	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J.	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	2 miles south-east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	1/2 mile east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 222 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bethesda in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 Belmont 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 1064431. 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.