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

Amanda, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Amanda Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43102. It stands on Muddy Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Amanda quadrangle. 673 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Amanda within Fairfield County

Population over time

4 figures

Amanda grew from 181 to 673 between 1850 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.

Year	People	Change
1850	181
2000	707
2010	737	+30 (+4%)
2020	673	-64 (-9%)

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Amanda, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Amanda, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

15,419 words on this township

A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Amanda Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Amanda lies immediately north of Clear Creek. It is commonly understood that the name was given by William Hamilton, who was the first County Surveyor of Fairfield. It contains the villages of Amanda and Royalton. Amanda is eight miles west of Lancaster, on the Cincinnati Railroad. Its first proprietor was Samuel Kester, and its beginning was about 1830. Royalton is six or seven miles north of Amanda. It is a small village, and was known as Toby Town at the beginning of the settlements.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

Frederick Leathers is spoken of as the first settler. He kept a tavern on the old Chillicothe road. Isaac Griffith succeeded him as landlord, and remained there until 1834, soon after which the house was burned. Other early settlers were : Disinger, William Ward, Mr. Norris, Mr. Denison, William Hamilton, Thomas Barr, John Christy and Mr. Morris, who acquired notoriety as a ring-fighter at public gatherings. A school-teacher, by the name of Solomon Grover, is spoken of ag having school in the upper story of his house, in 1817. A Presbyterian Church was organized in the village, in 1838, by Rev. Dr. Hogue, of Columbus. The first minister was William Jones. The first Sabbath-School in Amanda was inaugurated in 1860, by the Rev. Thorn.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

Meeker, was born in 1803, the first female child born, it is supposed, in that part of the township. Mrs. Meeker still distinctly remembers the Toby Town Indians coming over the prairie in single file, the squaws carrying their papooses on their backs, lashed to a board, and on arriving at her father's house, would stand up the boards upon which their little responsibilities were tied, against the outside, while they went in.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

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 Amanda Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Fires near this place

26 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Amanda between 2006 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15352
5 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15354
31 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15339
25 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15340
14 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15353
29 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15341
20 July 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15342
5 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15201

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,082 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,082 specimens collected within 10 miles of Amanda between 1843 and 1975: 1,584 Animalia, 394 Fungi, 92 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Bales, B. R., Beier, M. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur	1891	Freda Detmers	Rock Mill
Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.	1892	W.A. Kellerman
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens	Lancaster
Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	near Lancaster
Phyllogonium norvegicum Brid.	1843	Gray, A.; W. S. Sullivant	near Lancaster
Bruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.	1849	C. L. Lesquereux	Lancaster
Dicranodontium denudatum (Brid.) E.Britton	1849	C. L. Lesquereux
Dicranum condensatum Hedw.	1849	C. L. Lesquereux	Lancaster
Aecidium Pers.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium cimicifugatum (Schwein.) Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Near Amanda
Aecidium compositarum Mart.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium galii Pers.	1883	Kellerman, W.A.	Amanda

All 2,082 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amanda in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Amanda	$50,000	Large limbs were knocked down by thunderstorm winds across the county, downing power lines in spots. A large storefront window was shattered in Amanda. Several of the trees in Lancaster fell on cars causing damage.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Amanda	$50,000	Trees were downed near Amanda and a barn was damaged near Carroll.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Amanda	$20,000	A barn was destroyed southeast of the town of Amanda due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2009	Flood	Amanda	$10,000	Streams and creeks were out of their banks. Farm fields were flooded in addition to some basements as well.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Amanda	$3,000	Large trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Amanda	$3,000	Several trees were knocked down.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Amanda	$3,000	Trees were downed near the intersection of US 22 and Justus Road.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Amanda	$3,000	Several trees knocked down.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Amanda	$2,000	Large tree limbs were downed.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Amanda	$1,000	Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2025	Flood	Amanda	-	State Route 159 was covered by approximately six inches of water.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Amanda	-	High water was reported in numerous locations along State Route 159.
May 2001	Flash Flood	Amanda	-	Roads flooded
July 2001	Hail	Amanda	-	Thunderstorms produced dime size hail.
June 2020	Hail	Amanda	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Amanda	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
New Strasburg	1.0 miles	12
Wyandotte (historical)	3.3 miles	12
Oakland	3.6 miles	12
Clearport	3.9 miles	13
Delmont	4.1 miles	12
Drinkle	4.1 miles	13
Cedar Hill	4.3 miles	12
Hamburg	4.4 miles	12

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 Amanda	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q453735	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 1048458. 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.