Ridgeton, Ohio

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.

1915 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.

• 1915 USGS Bucyrus quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Bucyrus quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Chatfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Chatfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 184 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ridgeton between 1842 and 1973: 168 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beal, L. E., Benjamin, J. R., Chase, H. (Hazel) 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
	Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1842	William S. Sullivant
	Lestes unguiculatus Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township, ditch
	Tramea lacerata Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township
	Cirriphyllum piliferum (Hedw.) Grout	1842	W. S. Sullivant
	Drepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.	1842	W. S. Sullivant
	Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1844	not recorded
	Gymnoconia interstitialis (Schltdl.) Lagerh.	1906	Hieber Christina	Bucyrus
	Puccinia chrysanthemi Roze	1922	Orewiler Henry	Tiro
	Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	MB Trautman	Sandusky River, NE corner of Bucyrus Twp
	Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1930	E. Wichliff	Bucyrus Fish Hatchery
	Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1931	Conant, R. (Roger)	W. of Bucyrus, Crawford Co., Ohio
	Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins	1932	Leslie L Pontius; Floyd Bartley	Benton

All 184 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Ridgeton in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Crawford County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061603. 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.