Youngsville, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45679. It stands on Martins Run. The Survey maps it on the Seaman quadrangle.
Then and now
1918 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
11 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
8,860 words on this townshipCaldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
AVe have devoted soiHe^spacc to the consideration of these technical details, because they refer to the most remarkable advance made in the culture of tobacco in the last ten years, and it may he added that this is not the only instance in which precise science has been applied to industrial agriculture, as great progress has been made- in the production of the best rdot hy-tlic application of the principles of agricultural chemistry to the cultivation of that vegetable.
Passage source: Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
28 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Youngsville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9909 |
| 21 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9916 |
| 4 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15229 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13965 |
| 8 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 616 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 616 specimens collected within 10 miles of Youngsville between 1866 and 1975: 376 Animalia, 151 Fungi, 71 Plantae, 18 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist, A. J. Sharp 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1879 | A. B. Seymour | Adams County |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Murrill | 1929 | Benedict, H. | near Fawcett |
![]() | Asplenium ruta-muraria L. | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
| Hebata erigeron (DeLong, 1931) | 1903 | not recorded | ||
![]() | Hebata vitis (Göthe, 1875) | 1903 | not recorded | |
![]() | Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
| Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort. | 1925 | E. L. Braun | West tributary of Beech Fork | |
| Crotalus horridus horridus | 1926 | Watters, G. T. (George Thomas) | Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio | |
![]() | Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1927 | not recorded | |
![]() | Cladonia cristatella Tuck. | 1927 | Muegel, Harry R. | Adams County, Ohio |
All 616 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Youngsville in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Youngsville | $12,000 | Several trees were knocked down. One landed on a car, another fell across a road causing a semi to jackknife. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Youngsville | - | High water was reported along a portion of State Route 247. High water signs were deployed, but the road was not closed. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Youngsville | - | High water was reported over a portion of State Route 247 in Wayne Township. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Youngsville | - | High water nearly one foot deep was running over county roads southwest of Seaman. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seaman | 1.3 miles | 11 | |
| Irvington (historical) | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Harshasville | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Zion (historical) | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Leigh (historical) | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Unity | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Tranquility | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Cherry Fork | 3.5 miles | 11 |
Elsewhere
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.
| Wikipedia article on Youngsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23698552 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048216. 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.



















