Mowrystown, Ohio

Mowrystown grew from 360 to 385 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 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1917 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.

• 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mowrystown between 2019 and 2019, burning about 1 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:

• Buford
• Gath
• Sicily (historical)

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Museums hold 10 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mowrystown between 1916 and 1939: 8 Animalia, 2 Fungi. 6 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14521, A. B. Seymour, R. Rhoades 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 lateripes Berk. & Ravenel	1916	A. B. Seymour
	Phyllachora luteomaculata (Schwein.) Orton	1939	14521	The Seven Caves, along the Rocky Fork of Paint Creek
	Desmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Mowrystown, White Oak Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
	Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Stupka, A. (Arthur)	S. of Hillsboro, near Brown Co. line, Highland Co., Ohio
	Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1938	not recorded	East Fork White Oak Creek, within Highland Co, Highland County, township n/a
	Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1938	R. Rhoades	N. Branch of White Oak Creek, 2 mii NE of Buford, Clay Township

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

The National Weather Service names Mowrystown in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 Highland 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 1065081. 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.