Bridgewater Center, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1990

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.

• 1914 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Nettle Lake quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nettle Lake quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nettle Lake quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000

Williams County, Ohio 1870 Census and Index to Brady Township and the Village of West Unity, published 1870 names this settlement in its chapter on Bridgewater 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 1 fire within 5 miles of Bridgewater Center between 2019 and 2019, burning about 1 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:

• Greyhound
• Jim Town
• Lake Seneca
• Pioneer

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 277 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bridgewater Center between 1895 and 1972: 274 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Barnes, T. N., Bauer, L. 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
	unnamed	1897	F. L. Stevens	Columbia.
	Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854	1946	H. Price	Nettle Creek near Nettle Lake
	Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854	1946	H. Price	Nettle Creek, at ripples near Nettle Lake
	Aspidium Sw.	1895	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	Florence
	Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758	1926	Collector(s): unknown	No specific locality recorded
	Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758	1927	Price, H. (Homer)	Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Nettle Creek, at inlet to Nettle Lake in Northwest township, 4.7 mi S of Camden, Northwest township
	Chaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier, 1829)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
	Erimyzon sucetta kennerlii (Girard, 1856)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
	Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
	Etheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 1888	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman	Nettle Lake, northern northwest township

All 277 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bridgewater Center: 2 past producers. 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 Williams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgewater Center in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Williams 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 1064488. 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.