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.
Population over time
2 figuresWightmans 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 72 | |
| 2020 | 55 | -17 (-24%) |
Then and now
1901 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Wightmans Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Wightmans Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Wightmans Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
4 since 2002The 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 June 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge | BURMIESTER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,262 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Adiantum pedatum L. | 1880 | Keeler, L.E. | Fremont. |
![]() | Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc. | 1896 | Day | Fremont |
![]() | Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829) | 1914 | Anson A. Hinkley | Sandusky River, Fremont, North America |
![]() | Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770) | 1865 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789 | 1880 | not recorded | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Larus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 1862 | 1881 | not recorded | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1890 | Harry S. Day | Fremont |
![]() | Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764) | 1891 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Neotibicen canicularis (Harris, 1841) | 1891 | not recorded | Fremont |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1893 | Woolman | Sandusky River, Fremont, Ohio |
![]() | Esox americanus Gmelin, 1789 | 1893 | Woolman | Sandusky River, Fremont, Ohio |
![]() | Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802 | 1893 | Woolman | Sandusky 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Upton | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Shorewood Village | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Schlegels Grove | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Muncie Hollow | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Booktown | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Erlin | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Kingsway | 4.4 miles | 12 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5577095 | The 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.
























