Dawson, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 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.

• 1909 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Fort Loramie quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Fort Loramie quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000

History of Shelby County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Loramie Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 221 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dawson between 1897 and 1967: 157 Animalia, 40 Fungi, 23 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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
	Sorghum Moench	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	Shelby Co., Ohio.
	Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1898	Wetzstein, A.	Rich woods. Minster, Ohio
	Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub	1902	Grover, F.O.	Opens woods, N. Amherst, near F & D Quarry
	unnamed	1897	WA Kellerman	Shelby County
	Carex shortiana Dewey & Torr.	1897	Wetzstein, A.
	Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1897	Selby A. D.	Kirkwood
	Sorosporium reilianum (J.G.Kühn) McAlpine	1897	W. A. Kellerman
	Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton	1897	Kellerman W. A.	Shelby Co.
	Ustilago reiliana J.G.Kühn	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	Shelby County, Ohio.
	Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1904	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	New Bremen, Shelby, Ohio, USA
	Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1905	Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)	Loramie Creek, Sec 30 of Cynthian township, ~0.3 mi SW of Newport, Cynthian township
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1905	Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)	Loramie Creek, Sec 30 of Cynthian township, ~0.3 mi SW of Newport, Cynthian township

All 221 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Dawson: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. 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 Shelby County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dawson in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Shelby 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 1064513. 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.

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.