Evansport, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Evansport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Evansport between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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:

• Adams Ridge
• Domerville (historical)
• Glenburg (historical)
• Ney

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 247 specimens collected within 10 miles of Evansport between 1860 and 1974: 240 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. B. Kingsbury, Bays, J. (John), C. E. Shoop 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
	Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1908	not recorded	Auglaize River, Defiance
	Gomphus spicatus Hagen, 1854	1945	H. Price	Krill's Lake
	Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Megascops asio naevius	1892	J. O. Snyder	Ney
	Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	U.S. Fish Commission	DEFIANCE, OHIO
	Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1893	P. Kirsch	Anglaize River, Defiance
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio
	Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio
	Labidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio
	Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin Rver, Brunersburg, Ohio
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio

All 247 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evansport in 1 storm report in 2015: 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 Defiance 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 1056280. 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.