Wauseon, Ohio

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Wauseon grew from 7,332 to 7,568 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 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 1990

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.

• 1911 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Wauseon between 2007 and 2020, burning about 3 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:

• Timber Creek
• Delta
• Delta Heights
• Dover Glen
• Haller (historical)
• West Delta

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Museums hold 322 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wauseon between 1894 and 1975: 313 Animalia, 7 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by CLARENCE CLARK, DDT, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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
	Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)	1894	Edward Wilkinson	Wauseon
	Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1894	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
	Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)	1897	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Fulton, Ohio, USA
	Gomphus fraternus (Say, 1840)	1898	J. Hine	Wauseon
	Sympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861)	1898	J. Hine	Wauseon
	Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766	1899	not recorded	Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
	Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863	1902	not recorded	Wauseon
	Pucciniastrum agrimoniae (Dietel) Tranzschel	1902	W. A. Kellerman
	Pucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur	1902	W.A. Kellerman
	Sarcophaga spatulata Aldrich, 1916	1902	Hine	Wauseon
	Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1905	not recorded	Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
	Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)	1905	not recorded	Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA

All 322 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Wauseon in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 27 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash 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.

Every storm recorded in Fulton County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 5 issues spread across its run from 1913 to 1922, 11,270 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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 1047628. 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.