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

Wheat Ridge, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Oliver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45693. It stands on Wheat Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Seaman quadrangle.

Wheat Ridge within Adams County

Then and now

1918 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wheat Ridge, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Wheat Ridge, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the county-history sources

6,490 words on this township

Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Oliver Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

AV. B. Brown. - The ancestors of Mr. Brown, were of German origin. His father, whose name was James, was the fourth generation of a family, that each succeeding generation had but one son, and that son's name was each time "James." Air. Brown's grandfather was born in AVashington county, Pennsylvania, where lie married Jane Reed. They moved to Alanchestcr, Adams county, previous to 1800, where they remained a year or two, then came to Cherry Fork, and settled on the farm now owned by J. AV. Baldridge, Jr., about two miles below North Liberty. Here they both lived and died. Mr. Brown died in 1804, and is the second person buried in the Cherry Fork cemetery, as elsewhere stated. Airs. Brown died March 13th, 1821, and is buried there also. Janies Brown, of this family of children, is the father of \V. B. Brown, and was born 1802. He grew up on the old homestead, and was married to Alaria Baker, lie became the owner of the old homestead, where he lived until his decease. March 22, 1832. lie reared a family of four children, three sons and one daughter. AVilliam B., born March 24, 1824, James. R., boruAlay 17. 1826, Jacob N., born October 19, 1828. Alary J*, born March 4. 1831. AVilliam B. Brown, the subject of pur sketch, who is the eldest of these children, married Ellen Ralstin, April 12. 1848. settled about a mile from Unity, and engaged in the tanning business. lie followed this business until the fall of 1S50, when lie removed to Unity, and in 1851, engaged in the mercantile business which he carried on until 1874. lie was succeeded by bisons, James AV'. and Ilenry II. Brown. Since 'that time Air. Brown lias devoted his attention to the saw and flouring mill* which he had owned for some years before. lie has had a faini Iv of six children, live sons and one daughter. James A\'., Ilenr\ II., Louis R., N. AI., AlaVv AL, and Carey II., besides Hermes ( who died at 18 months. Henry II. married Ruth Alclntire, Loui- R. married Ella Smith, N. AL married Belle llumcs. Henry 11. and James AV. arc engaged in the mercantile business in Unity. Louis R. is fanning in Iowa. Mary AI. and Carey II. are not married, and reside with their parents. Air, Brown has acted a prominent part in the public affairs of the township and county in which he lives. He was the most influentijal person in procuring the location of the Grace's Run anil Dunkinsville pike, took a leading part in securing the organization of Oliver township, lie was elected township Treasurer, consecutively, for twentysix years, and was l^t^all (1879) elected county TriTasurcr. Though liberal towardsothers in religious or political matters, his religious opinions are expressed in the creed of tfie U. P. church ; while in politics, he has always adhered to the principles of the Democratic party.

Passage source: Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880.

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 Oliver Township.

Fires near this place

46 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Wheat Ridge between 2003 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	1
Other causes	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 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9909
21 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9916
4 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15229
1 July 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8465
26 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15184
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13965

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,343 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,343 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wheat Ridge between 1866 and 1975: 560 Fungi, 462 Animalia, 287 Plantae, 34 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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
Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.	1900	W.A. Kellerman	Mineral Springs
Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	W.A. Kellerman
Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1866	C. B. Dyer
Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt	1866	C. B. Dyer
Stigmella platani Fuckel	1892	Kellerman W. A.	Mineral Springs
Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Kern W. A.	Mineral Springs
Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1925	Muegel, Harry R.	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia cristatella Tuck.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 1,343 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Unity	1.2 miles	11
Dunkinsville	2.6 miles	12
Harshasville	2.7 miles	11
Whippoorwill	3.6 miles	10
Jacksonville	3.7 miles	13
Lawshe	4.3 miles	13
Youngsville	4.3 miles	11
Irvington (historical)	4.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063088. 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.

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