Sparta, Ohio

Sparta fell from 161 to 121 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 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 1966

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 Fredericktown quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Fredericktown quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Chesterville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Chesterville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sparta between 2012 and 2012, burning about 6 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:

• Aaronsburg (historical)

Every fire recorded in Morrow County

Museums hold 184 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sparta between 1835 and 1974: 162 Animalia, 18 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Adler, K. K., C. G. Lloyd 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
	Bovistella Morgan	1885	A. P. Morgan
	Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
	Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1890	Kofoid
	Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, s.loc.
	Usnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.	1838	not recorded
	Ascochyta Lib., 1830	1883	Kellerman
	Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke	1883	W.A. Kellerman
	Septoria ribis (Lib.) Desm.	1883	W. A. Kellermann
	Uromyces (Link) Unger, 1833	1883	Kellerman
	Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary	1891	Kofoid
	Dispira cornuta Tiegh.	1895	R. Thaxter
	Stereum bicolor (Pers.) Fr.	1896	C. G. Lloyd

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

The National Weather Service names Sparta in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 Morrow 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 1065362. 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.