Bryan, Ohio

This curated hub for Williams County, Ohio brings together the page's documented record links, visible map or image evidence where published, and routes to related local records.

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Bryan grew from 8,545 to 8,729 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 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 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.

• 1914 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Bryan 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
• 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bryan between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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:

• Bona Vesta
• Bona Vista
• Freedom (historical)
• Holly Addition
• Lakeland Woods Estates
• Plover Lake Addition

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Museums hold 155 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bryan between 1890 and 1974: 153 Animalia, 1 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Anson A. Hinkley, 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
	Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)	1916	Anson A. Hinkley	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, North America
	Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854	1946	H. Price	Northwest Township, Nettle Creek
	Gomphus laurae (Williamson, 1932)	1946	H. Price	St. Joseph's River, St. Joseph Township, taken near mouth of Fish Creek
	Plowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc.	1890	Woodard Edwin	Stryker
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
	Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
	Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
	Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Josephs River, Edgerton, Ohio
	Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758	1926	Collector(s): unknown	No specific locality recorded
	Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
	Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758	1927	Price, H. (Homer)	Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA

All 155 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bryan: 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

The National Weather Service names Bryan in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 21 thunderstorm wind, 9 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 1048561. 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.