Wrightsville, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1929 1991

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.

• 1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:48000
• 1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
• 1952 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900 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. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Wrightsville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 379 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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:

• Manchester
• Catbird
• Beasley Fork
• Bentonville
• Grimes (historical)
• Paradise Hills

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 519 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wrightsville between 1920 and 1975: 430 Animalia, 51 Fungi, 38 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, Ahles, H.E., Amrine & Hines 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
	Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév.	1929	Fulford, Margaret H.	Cedar Run
	Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr.	1929	Fulford, Margaret H.	Cedar Run
	Mycorrhaphium adustum (Schwein.) Maas Geest.	1929	Fulford, Margaret H.	Cedar Run
	Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1920	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Serpent Mound, Adams, Ohio, USA
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1923	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Lynx, Adams Co., Ohio
	Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
	Perlesta lagoi Stark, 1989	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
	Crotalus horridus horridus	1926	Watters, G. T. (George Thomas)	Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio
	Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 1799	1927	Watters, G. (George)	Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
	Alosa chrysochloris (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ohio Brush Creek, within Adams Co, Adams County, township n/a
	Asplenium cryptolepis Fernald	1927	Braun, E. Lucy	Buzzard's Roost Rock
	Eumeces fasciatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	near Buena Vista, Adams Co., Ohio

All 519 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 Wrightsville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. 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 Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wrightsville in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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 Adams 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 1061804. 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.