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

Wigner, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It stands on Rocky Fork. The Survey maps it on the Rodney quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wigner within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wigner (historical), surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Wigner (historical), surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

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

36 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Wigner (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 150 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	4

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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5606
7 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 163 shown

Museums hold 163 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wigner (historical) between 1888 and 1968: 139 Animalia, 12 Fungi, 9 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Babcocks D. O., C. Gilbert & J. Henshall, Cavanah, Bunting, et al. 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
Macrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Moxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Near Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio River
Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Notropis blennius (Girard, 1856)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Percina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854	1899	[Not Stated]	Waterloo
unnamed	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Arthromacra aenea	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Chrysotus Meigen, 1824	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Chrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 1924	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 163 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
Siloam (historical)	2.5 miles	13
Hideaway Acres	2.6 miles	13
Northup	2.6 miles	13
Patriot	2.8 miles	12
Boggs (historical)	3.3 miles	14
Cora	3.4 miles	13
Gage	3.5 miles	12
McCormick (historical)	3.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067568. 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.