Dresden, Ohio

Dresden grew from 1,529 to 1,650 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.

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1966

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.

• 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Dresden quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Dresden quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Dresden quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Dresden quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Dresden between 2012 and 2020, burning about 85 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.

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:

• Trinway
• Wakatomika (historical)
• Lower Dresden
• Adams Mills
• Frazeysburg
• Rock Cut

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Museums hold 379 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dresden between 1866 and 1974: 245 Animalia, 114 Plantae, 19 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, Andreas, Barbara; Cusick, Allison, Buker, W.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
	Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey	1898	Selby, A.D.	Trinway
	Synchytrium decipiens (Farl.) Farl.	1931	E. B. Mains
	Stereum albobadium (Schwein.) Fr.	1936	Cooke, William Bridge	Little Salt Creek
	Arabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray	1866	Day, D.F.	Dresden
	Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills, Barrs Mills
	Ortmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills
	Hebata esuma (Goding, 1890)	1917	not recorded
	Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
	Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
	Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Trinway, Cass Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Frazeysburg, Jackson Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Near Adams Mills, Muskingum Co., Ohio

All 379 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dresden: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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 Muskingum County

The National Weather Service names Dresden in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 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.

Every storm recorded in Muskingum 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 1048667. 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.