Wheelersburg, Ohio

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.

1926 2002

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.

• 1926 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:48000
• 1930 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1930 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1930 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Porter Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Wheelersburg between 1997 and 2020, burning about 517 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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:

• Crestview Park
• Camp Bennett
• Rigrish Addition
• Sciotodale
• Slocum
• Slocum Heights

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 618 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wheelersburg between 1884 and 1975: 558 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ahles, H.E., Anson A. Hinkley, Aschinger, H. (Henry) 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
	Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829	1896	not recorded	Scioto River
	Peronospora polygoni Halst.	1897	F.L. Stevens
	Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819	1885	Ch. R. Orcutt	Scioto River
	Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)	1897	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
	Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
	Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
	Sympetrum Newman, 1833	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth
	Sympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth
	Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA
	Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA

All 618 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Wheelersburg: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Iron. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheelersburg in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 1077173. 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.