Lower Salem, Ohio

Lower Salem fell from 86 to 75 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 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1994

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.

• 1903 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000

History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Salem Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lower Salem between 2015 and 2020, burning about 86 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:

• Dalzell
• Gasville
• Germantown
• Bonn
• Elba
• Warner

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 475 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lower Salem between 1853 and 1975: 454 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adams, N.; Adams, S., Albert Hazen Wright 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
	Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.	1932	C. May	Marietta
	Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.	1932	L.W.R.J.	Nursery, Marietta
	Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 21, 3 miles north of Marietta.
	Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)	1883	Albert Hazen Wright	Marietta
	Trillium sessile L.	1884	None	Macksburg
	Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1896	A. D. Selby	Rainbow.

All 475 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lower Salem in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Washington 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 1057819. 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.

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.