Kirby, Ohio

Kirby grew from 118 to 120 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 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 Upper Sandusky quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Wharton quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wharton quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000

The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Mifflin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 226 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kirby between 1885 and 1975: 193 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., Blyth & Katz, Blyth, D. (David) & Katz, D. (David) 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
	Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 1768	1902	Bonser, T.	Carey
	Puccinia caricina DC.	1902	T. Bonser
	Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr	1931	Curtis May	State Forest at Steece
	Hister abbreviatus Fabricius, 1775	1885	not recorded	Crane
	Margarinotus faedatus (J.E.LeConte, 1845)	1885	not recorded	Crane
	Campylium stellatum (Hedw.) Lange & C.E.O.Jensen	1899	W. A. Kellerman
	Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Bonser Thos.	Wyandot Co.
	Phyllachora vulgata Theiss. & Syd.	1900	Thos. Bouser	Big Spring Prairie
	Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822	1901	Thos A. Bonser	Carey, S. of
	Lepidium campestre (L.) W.T.Aiton	1901	Bonser, T.A.	Carey
	Puccinia eatoniae Arthur	1901	Bouser Thomas?	Wyandot Co.
	Puccinia fusca Wallr.	1901	Bouser Thomas	Wyandot Co.

All 226 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirby in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2010: 2 hail. 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 Wyandot 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 1064947. 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.

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.