Woodsfield, Ohio

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Woodsfield fell from 2,384 to 2,210 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.

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 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.

• 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000
• 2002 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Woodsfield between 2012 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 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:

• Hope Ridge (historical)
• Kerr
• Coats
• Griffith
• Decker
• Edwina

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Museums hold 390 specimens collected within 10 miles of Woodsfield between 1860 and 1975: 368 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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
	Taphrina sacchari Jenkins	1922	O.L. Inman	Antioch College
	Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.	1924	L.L. Lehman
	Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1929	Herbert R. Mooney	Woodsfield
	Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1860	David M. Dennis	3 mi. N Graysville
	unnamed (fossil)	1914	Collector Unknown	Woodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
	Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1921	Ortmann, Arnold E	Woodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
	Colletotrichum cereale Manns	1922	Thompson W. H.	Woodsfield
	Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd.	1928	Archer, W. A.	Greenbrier
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
	Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
	Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township

All 390 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Woodsfield in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 9 flash flood, 3 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 Monroe County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 2 issues spread across its run from 1844 to 1886, 9,886 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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 1077231. 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.