Georgetown, Ohio

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Georgetown grew from 4,331 to 4,453 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 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1928 1991

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.

• 1928 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:48000
• 1931 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:62500
• 1952 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

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 1 fire within 5 miles of Georgetown between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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:

• Arnheim
• East Wahlsburg
• Hillman (historical)
• Redoak

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Museums hold 375 specimens collected within 10 miles of Georgetown between 1885 and 1974: 291 Animalia, 74 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. Braun, Ahles, H.E. 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
	Hirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk	1903	Blickle, A.H.	Brown County, Ohio
	Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)	1929	A. Braun	[Not Stated]
	Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1938	R. Rhoades	Small Branch To Ohio River, 1 mile NW Of Higginsport, Lewis Township
	Valsa ludibunda Sacc.	1885	Rev. C. H. Demetrio	(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
	Equisetum hyemale L.	1897	Kreke, Fr. M.	Arnheim
	Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Cercospora sordida Sacc.	1899	King H. B.	Ripley
	Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera peckii U.Braun	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera ravenelii Berk.	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Polyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley

All 375 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Brown County

The National Weather Service names Georgetown in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 6 flood, 2 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 Brown County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 6 issues spread across its run from 1840 to 1845, 31,348 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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 1064714. 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.