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Vaughnsville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45893. It stands on Rattlesnake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kalida quadrangle. 278 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Vaughnsville within Putnam County

Population over time

2 figures

Vaughnsville grew from 262 to 278 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
2010262
2020278+16 (+6%)

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vaughnsville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Vaughnsville, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 75 shown

Museums hold 75 specimens collected within 10 miles of Vaughnsville between 1893 and 1969: 75 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Blyth & Katz, C. Nichols, , Beut. Coll. 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 Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893P. KirschSugar Creek, Cloverdale
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedCloverdale, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedCloverdale, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Sugar Cr. Twp: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Sugar Creek Twp.: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio

All 75 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Vaughnsville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rimer QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Rimer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rockport Sand & Gravel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms nearby

2 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Vaughnsville in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindVaughnsville-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph and small diameter tree limbs down.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindVaughnsville-Storm spotters reported power lines down in the area.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Jones City1.6 miles13
Seitz2.9 miles13
Rimer3.2 miles13
Rushmore5.5 miles14
Clevengers (historical)5.5 miles13
Columbus Grove5.6 miles13
Kalida7.4 miles13
Fort Jennings7.9 miles13

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 VaughnsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472322The 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 1065432. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.