Bowersville, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1916 1986

Bowersville fell from 312 to 261 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

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.

• 1916 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Bowersville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bowersville in 2009, burning about 4 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:

• Gunnerville
• Mechanicsville (historical)
• Middleton Corner
• Paintersville
• Pattersons Corner

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 13 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bowersville between 1878 and 1973: 7 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 11 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Keller, H. W., R. Rhoades, Rhoades, R. (Randall) 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
	Mayetiola destructor (Say, 1817)	1878	not recorded
	Asplenium rhizophyllum L.	1899	Young, W.U.	"On limestone banks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
	Asplenium trichomanes L.	1899	Young, W.U.	"On limestone rocks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
	Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1899	Young, W.U.	"[Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
	Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray	1899	Young, W.U.
	Botrychium dissectum Spreng.	1934	Wood, R.	Pearsons Park
	Cambarus diogenes Girard, 1852	1938	R. Rhoades	Painter Run S. of Paintersville
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1938	Rhoades, R. (Randall)	Grog Run, within Jefferson township, near Port William, Jefferson township
	Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1938	R. Rhoades	Painter Run S. of Paintersville, Ceasers Creek Township
	Semotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1938	Rhoades, R. (Randall)	Grog Run, within Jefferson township, near Port William, Jefferson township
	Licea marginata Nann.-Bremek., 1965	1973	Keller, H. W.	In Forest Preserve

All 13 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowersville in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Greene 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 1048537. 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.