Wisterman, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1986

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.

• 1908 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Miller City quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Miller City quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 81 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wisterman between 1893 and 1969: 81 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Blyth & Katz, Creamer, D. 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
	Lampsilis ventricosa (Barnes, 1823)	1893	not recorded	Blanchard River
	Sympetrum internum Montgomery, 1943	1956	H. Price	Palmer Township, Miller City tile pond
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
	Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
	Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)	1893	not recorded	Cloverdale, Auglaize River
	Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
	Noturus flavus Rafinesque, 1818	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Cloverdale, Ohio
	Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Sugar Cr. Twp: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Sugar Creek Twp.: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio
	Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Ottawa Twp., Putnam Co., Ohio
	Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Ottawa Twp., Putnam Co., Ohio

All 81 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wisterman: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Putnam County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wisterman in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 1 hail. 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 Putnam County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056577. 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.

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.