BlockDexter 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.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The 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.
Population over time
2 figuresDexter 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, 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 129 | |
| 2020 | 81 | -48 (-37%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,906 words on this townshipHistory of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
A. A. Clymer, one of the prominent business men of Dexter City, was a native of Muskingum County, and came to Noble County when a young man, settling near Caldwell. In 1876 he removed to Dexter City, and in com})any with Mr. McKee opened a store of general merchandise. In 1878 the co-partnership was dissolved, Mr. Clymer continuing the business until his decease in 1884. Since this time his sons, Charles and G. W. Clymer, have successfully conducted the business and are considered to be among the most extensive and prosperous merchants in this section of the count3\ Charles, the senior member of the firm, was bom in Washington County, Ohio, and is a young man highly esteemed as a correct and successful business man.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
Dexter W. Sullivan, whose identification with Dexter City is given in this chapter, and after whom the place takes its name, was one of the first settlers and a conspicuous person in its history. He is one of those brave, self-sacrificing men who periled their lives to preserve what the pioneers had won. In 1862 he became a member of Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the battle of Winchester he was taken prisoner and confined at Libby and Belle Isle for two months, where he contracted disease which rendered necessary his discharge on June 13, 1863.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
The life of Richard S. Deal presents an excellent illustration of what can be accomplished by perseverance and economy under adverse circumstances. In 1834 he came to Bamesville, found employment on a farm, where he worked for three years, his compensation for the time being $20 per year. From Bamesville he came to Summerfield, where he ultimately became a dealer in tobacco. Thence he removed to Colorado, Noble County, where he engaged in merchandising and tobacco. In 1869 he came to Dexter City, where he built the first mill, which he operated for ten years. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for forty years; has officiated as class-leader and steward.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Jefferson Township - it names this place 10 more 10 times.
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13585 |
| 18 March 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 3810 |
| 26 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16016 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 82 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Trillium sessile L. | 1884 | not recorded | Macksburg |
 | Colletotrichum trifolii Bain | 1911 | Scarberry J. J. | MACKSBURG |
 | Erysiphe polygoni DC. | 1912 | E. Bartholomew | Caldwell |
 | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio |
 | Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio |
 | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
 | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
 | Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township |
 | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township |
 | Notropis volucellus (Cope, 1865) | 1929 | MB Trautman & ass't. | Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp. |
 | Opsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 1881 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
 | Percina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1929 | Trautman, 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 near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Dexter City | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported flash flooding with State Route 821 closed. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dexter City | $500 | Local law enforcement reported multiple trees down. |
| April 2018 | Flood | Dexter 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 2000 | Flash Flood | Dexter 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 2020 | Hail | Dexter City | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moundsville | 0.8 miles | 13 | |
| South Olive | 1.1 miles | 13 | |
| Crooked Tree | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Gem | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Dudley | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Ashton | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Three Forks | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Middleburg | 4.5 miles | 13 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q920577 | The 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.