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Fredericksburg, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salt Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44627. It stands on North Branch Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fredericksburg quadrangle. 409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Fredericksburg within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Fredericksburg fell from 423 to 409 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
2010423
2020409-14 (-3%)

Then and now

1915 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Fredericksburg, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Fredericksburg, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

1 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fredericksburg between 2010 and 2010, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning1

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 November 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,164 shown

Museums hold 2,164 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fredericksburg between 1877 and 1975: 1,791 Animalia, 186 Plantae, 148 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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 Aster ciliolatus, not of this specimenAster ciliolatus Lindl.1877Thorne, B.H.Station Farm, Wooster
A photograph of the species Eupatorium sessilifolium, not of this specimenEupatorium sessilifolium L.1889Duvel, J.W.TFredericksburg
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Catharus guttatus, not of this specimenCatharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Certhia americana, not of this specimenCerthia americana americana Bonaparte, 18381890Harry C. OberholserWooster
Corthylio calendula calendula1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 19211890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Dryobates pubescens, not of this specimenDryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Eremophila alpestris, not of this specimenEremophila alpestris alpestris (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster

All 2,164 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fredericksburg: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wayne Limestone Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/Broken, CoalPlant

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms nearby

3 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Fredericksburg in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFredericksburg$2,000Trained spotters and amateur radio operators reported trees and power lines downed in the Fredericksburg area.
June 2008HailFredericksburg-Nickel size hail was observed.
June 2008HailFredericksburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
McCance1.6 miles18
Maysville4.4 miles15
Moreland4.6 miles18
Apple Creek5.4 miles15
Edinburgh5.6 miles15
Guerne6.1 miles17
Kauke6.4 miles18
Stringtown6.5 miles18

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 FredericksburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1898469The 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 1061080. 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.