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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

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.

Youngsville within Adams County

Then and now

1918 to 1991

The 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 sheet of Youngsville, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Youngsville, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 sheets

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.

In the county-history sources

8,860 words on this township

Caldwell'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.

Read the whole chapter on Wayne Township.

Fires near this place

28 since 2004

Regional 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9909
21 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9916
4 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15229
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13965
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning19 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 616 shown

Regional 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1879A. B. SeymourAdams County
Specimen of Puccinia smilacis Schwein.Puccinia smilacis Schwein.1900W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) MurrillLaetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Murrill1929Benedict, H.near Fawcett
A photograph of the species Asplenium ruta-muraria, not of this specimenAsplenium ruta-muraria L.1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Pleopeltis michauxiana, not of this specimenPleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt1866C. B. Dyer
Hebata erigeron (DeLong, 1931)1903not recorded
A photograph of the species Hebata vitis, not of this specimenHebata vitis (Göthe, 1875)1903not recorded
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.1925E. L. BraunWest tributary of Beech Fork
Crotalus horridus horridus1926Watters, G. T. (George Thomas)Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1927not recorded
A photograph of the species Cladonia cristatella, not of this specimenCladonia cristatella Tuck.1927Muegel, Harry R.Adams County, Ohio

All 616 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1999Thunderstorm WindYoungsville$12,000Several trees were knocked down. One landed on a car, another fell across a road causing a semi to jackknife.
June 2019FloodYoungsville-High water was reported along a portion of State Route 247. High water signs were deployed, but the road was not closed.
June 2017Flash FloodYoungsville-High water was reported over a portion of State Route 247 in Wayne Township.
August 2016Flash FloodYoungsville-High water nearly one foot deep was running over county roads southwest of Seaman.

Every storm recorded in Adams County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Seaman1.3 miles11
Irvington (historical)1.5 miles11
Harshasville1.6 miles11
Mount Zion (historical)2.1 miles11
Mount Leigh (historical)2.3 miles11
Unity3.2 miles11
Tranquility3.3 miles11
Cherry Fork3.5 miles11

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 YoungsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698552The 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.