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Cygnet, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43413. The Survey maps it on the North Baltimore quadrangle. 543 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Cygnet within Wood County

Population over time

2 figures

Cygnet fell from 597 to 543 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.

YearPeople Change
2010597
2020543-54 (-9%)

Then and now

1903 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Cygnet, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cygnet, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 sheets

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.

Fires nearby

2 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cygnet between 2002 and 2002, 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.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
31 October 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 October 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 578 shown

Museums hold 578 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cygnet between 1894 and 1975: 541 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1901Kellerman, W.A.Bowling Green
Specimen of Physoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.ShawPhysoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.Shaw1912E. G. ArzbergerStation grounds
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Calicium lenticulare, not of this specimenCalicium lenticulare Ach.1895E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Aristida purpurascens, not of this specimenAristida purpurascens Poir.1901William KellermanNear Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Phyllachora lespedezae, not of this specimenPhyllachora lespedezae (Schwein.) Sacc.1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
A photograph of the species Uromyces lespedezae, not of this specimenUromyces lespedezae (Thüm.) Peck1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora abietis-canadensis (Farl.) C.A.Ludw.1902W.A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora populina (Jacq.) Lév.1902W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Stemphylium cucurbitacearum Osner1915Gilbert W. W.Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1917E L MOSELEYBOWLING GREEN
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1918E L MOSELEYMILTON TWP

All 578 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Cygnet in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Flash FloodCygnet$75,000Heavy thunderstorm rain caused the Rocky Ford to overflow its banks. Some businesses incurred water damage, as well as numerous homes. Homes in the nearby town of Bloomdale also experienced flooding.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCygnet$35,000Several large trees were reported down. A building was also displaced off of it's foundation causing considerable structural damage.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindCygnet$20,000House suffered roof damage in Cygnet. Time estimated via radar.
September 2010HailCygnet$20,000Thunderstorms produced quarter to half dollar size hail.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCygnet$3,000The public reported trees uprooted in Cygnet.
April 2006HailCygnet-Nickel size hail was reported.
June 2019HailCygnet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Trombley1.0 miles14
Oil Center (historical)2.0 miles13
Jerry City2.3 miles15
Mungen2.4 miles14
Bays2.4 miles14
Bassett (historical)2.5 miles13
Hammansburg2.6 miles13
Ducat3.3 miles14

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on CygnetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668803The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056858. 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.