Bowerston, Ohio

Bowerston fell from 398 to 356 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 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1994

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.

• 1902 USGS Scio quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Scio 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 Bowerston quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Bowerston quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Bowerston quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Bowerston quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bowerston between 2005 and 2013, burning about 6 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:

• Conotton
• Laceyville (historical)
• Pleasant Valley (historical)
• Scio
• Smithdale (historical)
• Deersville

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Museums hold 83 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bowerston between 1891 and 1970: 63 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Conan J. Taylor, Dalton, C., Dalton, J. (J) & Dalton, T., Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1891	Sterki, Victor	Dennison(2 mi above)
	Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1891	Sterki, Victor	Dennison(3 mi above)
	Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1891	Sterki, Victor	Dennison(2 mi above)
	Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1891	Sterki, Victor	Dennison(2 mi above)
	Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1891	Sterki, Victor	Dennison(2 mi above)
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1891	Sterki, Victor	Dennison(2 mi above)
	Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1891	Sterki, Victor	Dennison(2 mi above)
	Cardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1905	Ortmann, A.E.	Bowerston
	Carex pellita Muhl. ex Willd.	1911	Sterki	along B.& O. Ry, 2 mi NE of Uhrichsville
	Carex annectens (E.P.Bicknell) E.P.Bicknell	1914	Sterki	along B & O Ry, 2 mi NE of Uhrichsville
	Carex davisii Schwein. & Torr.	1914	Sterki	Dennison
	Carex hirsutella Mack.	1914	Sterki	along B&O Ry., 2 mi NE of Uhrichsville

All 83 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bowerston: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Harrison County

The National Weather Service names Bowerston in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 flash flood, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood. 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 Harrison 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 1048536. 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.