Ironton, Ohio

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Ironton fell from 11,129 to 10,571 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 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 2002

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.

• 1898 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:24000

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 253 fires within 5 miles of Ironton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,234 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 were 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:

• Coryville
• Hecla
• La Grange
• Green Valley
• Royersville
• Vesuvius (historical)

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Museums hold 435 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ironton between 1888 and 1972: 313 Animalia, 67 Fungi, 54 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Avery W. B., Bartholomew E., Bartholomew Elam 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
	Aecidium clematidis DC.	1896	F.L. Stevens
	Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
	Meigeniella hinei Coquillett, 1902	1899	[Not Stated]	Hanging Rock
	Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Big Sandy River, near mouth
	Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1890	Schneck	Hanging Rock
	Bryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob.	1892	W. C. Werner
	Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs	1892	W. C. Werner
	Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt.	1892	Carver Wm.	Ironton
	Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.	1892	W. C. Werner
	Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton
	Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1892	W. C. Werner
	Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton.

All 435 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ironton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Lawrence County

The National Weather Service names Ironton in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 19 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 Lawrence 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: 5 issues spread across its run from 1929 to 1937, 16,245 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 1076122. 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.