October 2025

Drought of 1854 one of area’s worst

Not only are weather guru, Rick McCoy, and yours truly best of friends, our closeness is inspired by an intense interest in “weather.” With one of the strongest droughts in some time and its “severe drought” rating in Adams, Allen and Jay County in Indiana and Mercer, Van Wert and parts of Williams County in Ohio, I looked back in my weather journals to reread some information I found on the terrible drought pioneers making their way into the area experienced in 1854.

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