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Weston, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Weston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43569. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. 1,455 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Weston within Wood County

Population over time

2 figures

Weston fell from 1,590 to 1,455 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
20101,590
20201,455-135 (-8%)

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Weston, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Weston, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Weston township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio; Its Past and Present, published 1897 - Weston Township

Chapter Xvii

Pioneer Physicians - Sanitary Conditions of the County between 1810 and 1845 - Reminiscences of old Practitioners - Appearance in the County of later Physicians - The Cholera - Roll of Physicians who settled in the County in recent Years, together with some brief personal Sketches - Maumee Vali.ey Medical Association - Wood County Medical Society - Wood County Physicians' Association.

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In the county-history sources

233,835 words on this township

Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio; Its Past and Present, published 1897 names this settlement in its chapter on Weston Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

CIVILIZATION, fitfully and slowly, spread her far-reaching mantle over the Maumee Country. She wavered and hesitated. More than once she advanced. More than once she retired in confusion and dismay. The obstacles were many and serious. Few inhabited lands have presented greater. To the vast stretches of swamp, inaccessible forests, and a dangerous miasmatic climate, was added the implacable hatred of savage tribes and bands - made desperate and revengeful by real or imaginary wrongs - who had retreated here, before the westward march of the hardy white Pioneers.

Passage source: Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio; Its Past and Present, published 1897.

So she at last came to the Maumee Country. In one hand, the olive branch of peace, in the other, the sword of the conqueror. That August day on the Maumee, 1794, comes to us through the mist of a century, like a phantom tableau, historic and tragic.

Passage source: Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio; Its Past and Present, published 1897.

Civilization and Barbarism stood beside that peaceful river, front to front, in battle array. Gen. Anthony Wayne, by his presence, said: "Civilization sends this army; I am her agent; this flag I carry is her symbol. Accept peace or flee for your lives." In heroic spirit and defiant words, Barbarism answered: "There can be no peace till you leave our land. We are here to stay your further advance, or perish in the trial." The tableau was dissolved - the tragedy* began. Before the sun had set, the emblem of the new race waved triumphant over that bloody field. The victor's cannon peals proclaimed the permanent occupation of the land by the white men.

Passage source: Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio; Its Past and Present, published 1897.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Weston Township - it names this place 48 more 48 times.

Fires near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Weston between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 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.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
31 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 487 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 487 specimens collected within 10 miles of Weston between 1860 and 1975: 450 Animalia, 25 Fungi, 12 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, L. 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
Specimen of Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1901Kellerman, W.A.Bowling Green
Specimen of Lampsilis alata (Say, 1817)Lampsilis alata (Say, 1817)1908not recordedGrand Rapids
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1908not recordedMaumee River, Grand Rapids
A photograph of the species Notropis hudsonius, not of this specimenNotropis hudsonius (Clinton, 1824)1860unknownGrand Rapids, Maumee R.
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893United States Fish CommissionBeaver Creek, Grand Rapids
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedGrand Rapids, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893P. KirschMaumee River, Grand Rapids, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191893PH KirschBeaver Creek, from mouth (at Maumee) up for 3 mi; near Grand Rapids; Maumee River dr
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1893not recordedGrand Rapids, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191893P. KirschMaumee River, Grand Rapids, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1893not recordedGrand Rapids, Beaver Creek
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedGrand Rapids, Beaver Creek

All 487 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Weston: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Custar Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWeston$125,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at more than 60 mph downed several trees and blew down or heavily damaged three barns on Poe Road west of Bowling Green.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWeston$25,000Trees and power poles downed and roof blown-off house in Weston.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWeston$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs in Weston. As the severe thunderstorm tracked east, several large trees were downed in the Bowling Green area.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWeston$15,000Law enforcement and media reported multiple trees and power lines down in Weston with some trees falling on houses.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWeston$15,000Thunderstorm winds toppled two power poles near Weston.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWeston$6,000Thunderstorm winds toppled a few trees.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWeston$5,000Thunderstorm winds tore some roofing material off of a house.
May 2003HailWeston$2,000Quarter size hail was observed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWeston$2,000Trees were downed.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWeston-Several trees downed in Weston.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWeston-Several tree were blown down across the county.
May 2014HailWeston-A trained weather spotter reported three quarter inch size hail.
August 2003HailWeston-Penny size hail was observed.
August 1998Flash FloodWeston-Heavy thunderstorm rain caused flooding of streets and numerous small streams.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWeston-A wind gust was measured at 59 miles per hour.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindWeston-A 69 mile per hour wind gust was reported.
May 2000HailWeston-no account filed
May 2000HailWeston-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWeston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

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.

NewspaperPublished
Tri-County Herald News1949 to 19??

What the paper printed

11,107 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 5 issues spread across its run from 1949 to 1949, 11,107 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.

IssuePaper Length
1949-11-17Tri-County Herald News2,029 words
1949-12-01Tri-County Herald News1,946 words
1949-12-15Tri-County Herald News2,261 words
1949-12-22Tri-County Herald News2,528 words
1949-12-29Tri-County Herald News2,343 words

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
Milton Center3.4 miles12
Custar4.8 miles12
Digby5.8 miles14
Grand Rapids5.8 miles16
Tontogany5.9 miles21
Wingston6.4 miles14
Haney (historical)6.4 miles12
Wintergarden Heights6.6 miles14

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 WestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2412190The 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 1061765. 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.