Lightsville, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 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.

• 1908 USGS St. Henry quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Rossburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rossburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000

The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Mississinawa Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 164 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lightsville between 1915 and 1964: 162 Animalia, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Alexander, Athearn, Herbert D., B. Montgomery 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
	Butorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	Ausonia, 1 mi E
	Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1915	Householder, V.	Ausonia, 3 mi W
	Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E Ausonia
	Falco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus, 1758	1915	Householder, V.	Ansonia, 1 mi E
	Geothlypis trichas (Linnaeus, 1766)	1915	Householder, V.	Ausonia, 1 mi. E
	Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E Ausoria
	Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	Ansonia, 1 mi E
	Melospiza melodia melodia (A.Wilson, 1810)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E of Ansonia
	Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E Ausouia
	Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1915	Housholder	1 mi. E. Ausoria
	Setophaga castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)	1915	Householder, V.	Ansonia, 1 mi. E
	Tamiasciurus hudsonicus loquax (Bangs, 1896)	1915	V H Housholder	ANSONIA, 1 MI E OF

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lightsville in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 Darke 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 1048915. 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.