Byesville, Ohio

Byesville fell from 2,438 to 2,364 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 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 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.

• 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Byesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Byesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Byesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Byesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Byesville quadrangle1:24000

Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895; History of Guernsey County, Ohio, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson 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 38 fires within 5 miles of Byesville between 2011 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• Blacktop
• Ideal
• Oakwood
• Spring Valley
• Buffalo
• Derwent

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 357 specimens collected within 10 miles of Byesville between 1875 and 1975: 134 Fungi, 131 Animalia, 88 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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
	Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.	1902	F.O. Grover	Black Swamp
	Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821	1916	not recorded
	Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878	1916	not recorded
	Asclepias tuberosa L.	1875	s.c.	Fairmont
	Enslenia albida Nutt.	1875	s.c.	Fairmont
	Impatiens pallida Nutt.	1875	Lloyd, Curtis Gates	Fairmont
	Stereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél.	1893	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Favolus europaeus Fr.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Pleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Polystictus versicolor (L.) Fr.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
	Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill

All 357 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Byesville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vanadium, Zirconium, Iron. 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 Guernsey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Byesville in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 Guernsey 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 1056747. 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.