Wilgus, Ohio

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.

1906 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.

• 1906 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
• 1972 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Wilgus between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,190 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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:

• Ida (historical)
• Rappsburg
• Suiter
• Dobbston
• Greasy Ridge
• Willow Wood

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Museums hold 283 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wilgus between 1840 and 1972: 270 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Kennedy, C. N. Wander, C. R. Neiswander 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
	Aecidium clematidis DC.	1896	F.L. Stevens
	Polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.	1840	Short, C.W.	along Ohio River
	Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854	1899	[Not Stated]	Waterloo
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Ricker A. J.	Aid
	Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	Ricker A. J.	Aid
	Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)	1921	George C. Withey	Deering, 11 miles east of
	Holcocephala calva (Loew, 1872)	1926	C. Kennedy	[not stated]
	Cremastus Gravenhorst, 1829	1927	L. Stearns	[Not Stated]
	Rhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 1854	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Little Storms Creek, within Strorm Creek' in book (may be incorrect) Lawrence township, near Kitts Hill, Lawrence township
	Natrix sipedon sipedon	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio
	Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio, USA
	Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)	1929	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Wolfram, G. (George)	Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio

All 283 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wilgus: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Lawrence County

The National Weather Service names Wilgus in 6 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 4 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1077192. 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.