Wilkesville, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 1980

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.

• 1905 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Wilkesville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 66 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.

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:

• Clarion
• Minerton
• Arbaugh
• Hawks
• Radcliff
• Cox (historical)

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Museums hold 32 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wilkesville between 1929 and 1972: 22 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. F. Reed, C. H. Jones, Collector(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster; Preparator(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster 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
	Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Raccoon Creek, within Wilkesville township, near Wilkesville, Wilkesville township
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Rhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 1854	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Semotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, within Salem township, near Wilkesville, Salem township
	Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.	1935	C. H. Jones	Columbia Twp.
	Salix sericea Marshall	1935	C. H. Jones	Columbia Twp.
	Zanthoxylum americanum Mill.	1936	C. H. Jones	Columbia Twp.
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1954	Stansbery, D. H. (David H.)	Knowlton Ravine, Albany Rt. 1, Athens Co., Ohio
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1954	Stansbery, D. H. (David H.)	Knowlton Ravine, Albany Rt. 1, Athens Co., Ohio

All 32 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Wilkesville in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 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 Vinton 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 1061779. 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.