Cardington, Ohio

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• Morrow County

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1913 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 8 records

• Hotel de GregoryHotel, in the atlas of 1903 to 1912
• Beardslev Rros. Grain WarehouseWarehouse, in the atlas of 1903
• Episcopal Church of the Good ShepChurch, in the atlas of 1903
• Long, J. F., Machine ShopMachine Shop, in the atlas of 1903
• Mill, see FlintMill, in the atlas of 1912
• Opera HouseOpera House, in the atlas of 1903
• Singer, G. S., LiveryLivery, in the atlas of 1903
• Vanatta's LiveryLivery, in the atlas of 1903

Cardington grew from 2,047 to 2,079 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.

• 1913 USGS Mount Gilead quadrangle1:62500
• 1916 USGS Mount Gilead quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Mount Gilead quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Denmark quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cardington in 2012, burning about 1 acre 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:

• Fulton
• Morehouse (historical)
• Shawtown
• South Woodbury
• Westfield

Every fire recorded in Morrow County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 406 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cardington between 1837 and 1975: 286 Animalia, 80 Fungi, 29 Plantae, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, Beardslee, H.C. 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
	Phyllosticta ampelopsidis Speschnew	1883	Kellerman	Ohio
	Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
	Thelephora mucida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Fr.	1898	Lloyd	Ohio
	Agaricus velutipes Curtis	1837	J.R. Paddock
	Sagittaria latifolia Willd.	1837	Frank B
	Sicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius	1837	Frank B	in civitatate Ohio
	Usnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.	1837	not recorded
	Polyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.	1838	not recorded
	Equisetum arvense L.	1870	Beardslee, H.C.	Moist soil.
	Sphaeria ulmea Fr.	1880	W. A. Kellermann	Ohio
	Phyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.	1882	Kellerman	Ohio
	unnamed	1883	Kellerman	Ohio

All 406 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 Cardington: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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 Morrow County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cardington in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado, 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 Morrow 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 1056765. 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.