West Portsmouth, Ohio

West Portsmouth fell from 3,149 to 2,928 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 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 1991

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 Otway quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of West Portsmouth between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,629 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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.

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:

• Vera Junction
• Portsmouth
• Stockham
• Valley View
• Alexandria
• Dry Run

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Museums hold 1,384 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Portsmouth between 1884 and 1975: 1,234 Animalia, 79 Plantae, 62 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Braun, A.P. Morgan 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
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1884	H. Mores	Scioto River
	Bovistella Morgan	1885	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan	1893	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819	1885	Ch. R. Orcutt	Scioto River
	Harpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.	1887	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.	1889	Craig M.	Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
	Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829	1896	not recorded	Scioto River
	unnamed	1897	Morgan	Preston
	Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens	Alum Rock
	Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)	1897	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
	Peronospora polygoni Halst.	1897	F.L. Stevens
	Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 1,384 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Portsmouth: 1 plant, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Scioto County

The National Weather Service names West Portsmouth in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flood, 2 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 Scioto 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 1061750. 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.

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.