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

Waggoner Ripple, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45650. It stands on Waggoner Run. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Waggoner Ripple within Adams County

Then and now

1919 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Waggoner Ripple (historical), surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Waggoner Ripple (historical), surveyed 1919

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

9 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Waggoner Ripple (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 156 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2020	Recreation and ceremony	33 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15455
23 March 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15033
17 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 November 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15910
5 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15981

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 805 shown

Museums hold 805 specimens collected within 10 miles of Waggoner Ripple (historical) between 1866 and 1975: 530 Animalia, 167 Fungi, 92 Plantae, 16 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist, A. P. Boesel 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel	1879	A. B. Seymour	Adams County
Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév.	1929	Fulford, Margaret H.	Cedar Run
Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr.	1929	Fulford, Margaret H.	Cedar Run
Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1866	C. B. Dyer
Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt	1866	C. B. Dyer
Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	Kellerman W. A.	Adams Co.
Clavaria formosa Pers.	1913	Fulford, Margaret H.	Adams County, Ohio
Craterellus Pers.	1913	Braun, E. Lucy	Adams County, Ohio
Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.	1925	E. L. Braun	West tributary of Beech Fork
Crotalus horridus horridus	1926	Watters, G. T. (George Thomas)	Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio
Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 1799	1927	Watters, G. (George)	Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA

All 805 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Waggoner Ripple (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fairview Roadcut Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Adams 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gemmer	0.4 miles	15
Tulip	2.1 miles	15
Grimes (historical)	2.3 miles	15
Squirrel Town	3.5 miles	15
Wrightsville	3.8 miles	14
Lynx	4.5 miles	12
Beasley Fork	4.7 miles	14
Stout	4.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055936. 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.

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.