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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Ridgeville Corners, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ridgeville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43555. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeville Corners quadrangle. 416 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,411 feet above sea level.

Ridgeville Corners within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Ridgeville Corners fell from 435 to 416 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.

YearPeople Change
2010435
2020416-19 (-4%)

Then and now

1907 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Ridgeville Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ridgeville Corners, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 sheets

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.

Fires nearby

4 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeville Corners between 2020 and 2020, burning about 8 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 March 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15506
8 November 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15900
20 October 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15860
16 October 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15853

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 58 shown

Museums hold 58 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ridgeville Corners between 1898 and 1973: 53 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by F.S. Badger, G.Y. Belyea, H. Price 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spinosus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spinosus Selys, 18541898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spoliatus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Libellula luctuosa, not of this specimenLibellula luctuosa Burmeister, 18391898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Perithemis tenera, not of this specimenPerithemis tenera (Say, 1840)1898J. HineNapoleon
Helminthosporium gramineum Rabenh. ex Schltdl.1919Lewis H. L.Ridgeville Corners
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Lewis H. L.Napoleon
A photograph of the species Roccus chrysops, not of this specimenRoccus chrysops (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Maumee River, within Henry Co, Henry County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Murphy, M KJunction Maumee River and Miami-Erie Canal, Washington township
A photograph of the species Pomoxis annularis, not of this specimenPomoxis annularis Rafinesque, 18181931Murphy, M KJunction of Maumee River and Miami-Erie Canal, Washington township
A photograph of the species Carex intumescens, not of this specimenCarex intumescens Rudge1937R. E. ShanksNapoleon Twp.
A photograph of the species Lestes dryas, not of this specimenLestes dryas Kirby, 18901943H. PriceMiami Extension Canal
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1944Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Roszman, F. D.Maumee River, Maumee River Sec. 4, ~1.7 mi E of Florida, Flatrock township

All 58 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

13 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Ridgeville Corners in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindRidgeville Corners$20,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRidgeville Corners$2,000no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindRidgeville Corners$2,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRidgeville Corners$1,000Power lines down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRidgeville Corners-EM reported power poles leaning and greenhouse roof taken off. Time estimated from radar.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindRidgeville Corners-Emergency management officials reported a utility pole was snapped with lines onto the road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindRidgeville Corners-A trained spotter reported several trees were blown down north of Ridgeville Corners.
June 2015FloodRidgeville Corners-Numerous roads across the county experienced high water and periodic closures from several rounds of heavy rainfall.
June 2011Flash FloodRidgeville Corners-Nearly three inches of rain fell within a one hour period across portions of Henry county, mainly northwest of Napoleon. Garrett Creek rapidly rose and went over its banks, resulting in the closure of an area near the intersection of County Road T and County Road 18.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindRidgeville Corners-Minor wind damage.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRidgeville Corners-Power lines downed.
May 1999HailRidgeville Corners-no account filed
June 1999HailRidgeville Corners-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bostelmans Corners3.8 miles11
Lueneburg4.7 miles11
Okolona6.1 miles12
Gerald6.2 miles11
Glenwood Estates6.3 miles11
Naomi6.9 miles11
Valleybrook Estates7.2 miles11
Napoleon7.7 miles11

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Ridgeville CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472825The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061605. 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.