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

Whisler, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Saltcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45644. It stands on The Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Hallsville quadrangle.

Whisler within Pickaway County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whisler, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Whisler, surveyed 1906

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.

Fires nearby

3 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Whisler between 2007 and 2019, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning	3

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
21 April 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 March 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15114
4 October 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 415 shown

Museums hold 415 specimens collected within 10 miles of Whisler between 1845 and 1975: 345 Animalia, 67 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Bartley, F., Andy White., Arden R. Gaufin 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
Symphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom	1845	L. L. Pontius	3 mi E of Kingston.
Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1906	B.R. Bales	Circleville
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1908	B.R. Bales	Circleville, Near
Toxostoma rufum rufum (Linnaeus, 1758)	1909	not recorded	Circleville; Near
Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822	1912	not recorded	Circleville; Near
Oestridae	1914	not recorded
Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1917	not recorded	Circleville; Near
Bacidia schweinitzii (E.Michener) A.Schneider	1918	B. Fink	Cantwell Cliffs
Coccyzus americanus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1918	B.R. Bales
Empidonax traillii brewsteri Oberholser, 1918	1918	not recorded	Circleville; Near
Penthorum sedoides L.	1922	R. R. Dreisbach	Hayesville
Solanum americanum Mill.	1922	R. R. Dreisbach	Hayesville

All 415 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Whisler in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Whisler	$200,000	Several barns destroyed, roof blown off a garage, and numerous trees downed. Some of the trees fell across some of which fell across homes and barns.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Whisler	$3,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Whisler	$1,000	A tree was knocked down onto a road.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Whisler	$1,000	High water occurred on a road due to heavy rainfall.
May 1997	Hail	Whisler	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pickaway County

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
Stringtown	2.7 miles	12
Leistville	3.1 miles	12
Meade	3.3 miles	13
Huntsville	4.5 miles	12
Tarlton	5.3 miles	12
Elmwood	5.8 miles	13
Thacher	6.3 miles	13
Hooven (historical)	6.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061772. 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.

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.