West Leipsic, Ohio

West Leipsic grew from 206 to 226 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 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1986

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.

• 1908 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ottawa 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 Ottawa quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 88 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Leipsic between 1860 and 1969: 80 Animalia, 8 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Blyth & Katz, Bureau of Fisheries 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
	Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1893	Bureau of Fisheries	Blanchard River
	Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	not recorded	Blanchard River, Ottawa
	Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)	1893	O. E.	Blanchard River, Ottawa
	Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)	1860	unknown	Blanchard R. at Ottawa
	Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett, 1813)	1878	not recorded
	Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	Porter collection, J.B.
	Calidris minutilla (Vieillot, 1819)	1878	Porter collection, J.B.
	Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	Porter collection, J.B.
	Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	Porter, J.B.
	Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	Porter, J.B.
	Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758	1878	Porter collection, J.B.
	Botaurus Stephens, 1819	1879	not recorded

All 88 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1049311. 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.

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