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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Dexter City, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45727. It stands on Buffalo Run. The Survey maps it on the Macksburg quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Dexter City within Noble County

Population over time

2 figures

Dexter City fell from 129 to 81 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
2010129
202081-48 (-37%)

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dexter City, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Dexter City, surveyed 1903

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

4 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dexter City between 2009 and 2020, burning about 61 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
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
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
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13585
18 March 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3810
26 February 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources16016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 82 shown

Museums hold 82 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dexter City between 1884 and 1974: 66 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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
A photograph of the species Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1884NoneMacksburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum trifolii, not of this specimenColletotrichum trifolii Bain1911Scarberry J. J.MACKSBURG
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus (Cope, 1865)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp.
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township

All 82 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Dexter City in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Flash FloodDexter City$10,000Law enforcement reported flash flooding with State Route 821 closed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindDexter City$500Local law enforcement reported multiple trees down.
April 2018FloodDexter City-Department of highways reported that State Route 821 was closed in both directions due to flooding between the Washington county line and State Route 78. Duck Creek is out of its banks.
June 2000Flash FloodDexter City-Another round of torrential rain from strong thunderstorms in less than 24 hours forced Duck Creek out of its banks, producing minor road flooding in the Dexter City area.
April 2020HailDexter City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Noble 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
Moundsville0.8 miles13
South Olive1.1 miles13
Crooked Tree2.0 miles13
Gem2.5 miles13
Dudley3.5 miles13
Ashton3.9 miles13
Three Forks4.0 miles13
Middleburg4.5 miles13

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 Dexter CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q920577The 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 1064537. 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.