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

Wightmans Grove, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Riley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43420. It stands on Bark Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wightmans Grove quadrangle. 55 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,883 feet above sea level.

Wightmans Grove within Sandusky County

Population over time

2 figures

Wightmans Grove fell from 72 to 55 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
201072
202055-17 (-24%)

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wightmans Grove, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Wightmans Grove, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

4 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wightmans Grove between 2002 and 2013, burning about 12 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
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 July 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 June 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOttawa National Wildlife RefugeBURMIESTER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandusky County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,262 shown

Museums hold 1,262 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wightmans Grove between 1865 and 1975: 1,182 Animalia, 64 Plantae, 16 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adams J. M. B., Adams J. M. R. 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1880Keeler, L.E.Fremont.
Specimen of Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.1896DayFremont
Specimen of Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1914Anson A. HinkleySandusky River, Fremont, North America
A photograph of the species Hydroprogne caspia, not of this specimenHydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770)1865Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Larus argentatus, not of this specimenLarus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 18621881not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry S. DayFremont
A photograph of the species Calidris alba, not of this specimenCalidris alba (Pallas, 1764)1891Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Sandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Neotibicen canicularis, not of this specimenNeotibicen canicularis (Harris, 1841)1891not recordedFremont
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus Gmelin, 17891893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio

All 1,262 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shannon1.6 miles13
Upton2.2 miles13
Shorewood Village2.3 miles13
Schlegels Grove2.8 miles13
Muncie Hollow3.1 miles13
Booktown3.8 miles13
Erlin4.4 miles13
Kingsway4.4 miles12

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 Wightmans GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5577095The 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 1049329. 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.