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

Ballville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ballville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43420. It stands on Minnow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fremont West quadrangle. 3,823 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Ballville within Sandusky County

Population over time

3 figures

Ballville grew from 3,255 to 3,823 between 2000 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.

YearPeople Change
20003,255
20102,976-279 (-9%)
20203,823+847 (+28%)

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ballville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ballville, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires nearby

10 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Ballville between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 July 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 July 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 June 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 June 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 June 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandusky County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 425 shown

Museums hold 425 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ballville between 1880 and 1975: 384 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 20 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adams J. M. B., Adams J. M. R. 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1880Keeler, L.E.Fremont.
Specimen of Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.1896DayFremont
Specimen of Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1914Anson A. HinkleySandusky River, Fremont, North America
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Larus argentatus, not of this specimenLarus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 18621881not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Carex frankii, not of this specimenCarex frankii Kunth1889H. C. BeardsleeGreen Spring.
A photograph of the species Arisaema dracontium, not of this specimenArisaema dracontium (L.) Schott1890H. C. Beardslee Sr.Green Springs
Carex haleana Olney1890H. C. Beardslee Jr.Green Spring
A photograph of the species Carex hyalinolepis, not of this specimenCarex hyalinolepis Steud.1890Collector unknownGreen Spring.
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry S. DayFremont
A photograph of the species Calidris alba, not of this specimenCalidris alba (Pallas, 1764)1891Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Sandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Neotibicen canicularis, not of this specimenNeotibicen canicularis (Harris, 1841)1891not recordedFremont

All 425 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ballville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gottron Brothers QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Gottron Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sandusky County

Storms nearby

6 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Ballville in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
February 2011FloodBallville$50,000Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to a rapid runoff and flooded roads across Sandusky County. An average of two inches of rainfall fell on top of six to ten inches of heavy snow was on the ground. This snow rapidly melted as temperatures warmed into the 50s on the 28th. Up to an additional inch of water equivalent rainfall was released from the melted snow. Several people had be rescued from vehicles as the water came up. Some homes south and north of Fremont experienced basement flooding. Roads that were closed because of flooding from rivers and creeks include OH 19 between Fremont and Oak Harbor, OH 105, US 23, OH 5282. Local roads included South River Road, Haynes Street, and Fulton Streets.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Ballville$25,000An EF0 tornado touched down in rural Sandusky County just southeast of Fremont. The initial touchdown was just north of the intersection of Buchanan and McGormley Roads. The tornado then traveled northeast across open land for just over four and a half miles before lifting near the intersection of Beeler and Flora Roads. Many trees were downed along the damage path which was intermittent and no more than 50 yards in width. A few barns and outbuildings along the damage path sustained minor damage.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBallville$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed a 12 inch diameter tree. The tree landed on a house and caused some damage.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBallville$6,000Power poles downed near Buchanan Road and Oak Drive in Ballville.
September 2015HailBallville-A trained weather spotter reported nickel size hail 5 miles south of Fremont.
May 2011FloodBallville-Strong to severe thunderstorms with torrential rain moved over Northern Ohio on the 25th. Over Sandusky County as much as 2.13 inches of rain was recorded at the Fremont Water Treatment Plant during the evening hours. Runoff from these showers cause small streams and creeks to come out of banks during the early morning hours of the 26th. The Green Creek, a tributary to the Sandusky River, came out of banks and flooded County RT 181.

Every storm recorded in Sandusky 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
Fremont1.6 miles13
Stony Prairie2.0 miles13
Great Lakes Village2.4 miles13
Young's Colonial Acres2.5 miles13
Golden Gate Estates2.5 miles13
Gabels Corner3.4 miles13
Havens3.5 miles13
Fourmile House Corner3.9 miles13

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 BallvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1988406The 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 1064376. 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.