Beach City, Ohio
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sugarcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44608. The Survey maps it on the Navarre quadrangle. 940 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBeach City fell from 1,033 to 940 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,033 | |
| 2020 | 940 | -93 (-9%) |
Then and now
1914 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 80 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
18 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.
- 1914 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
2 since 2018The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Beach City between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11645 |
| 23 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15426 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 87 shownMuseums hold 87 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beach City between 1875 and 1975: 80 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Borror, D.J., Cooke W. B.; Cooke V. G. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Gloeosporium venetum Speg. | 1890 | J.T. Rice | |
![]() | Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872 | 1940 | not recorded | Navarre |
![]() | Theliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1875 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
![]() | Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818 | 1895 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
![]() | Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) | 1895 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
![]() | Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834) | 1895 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
![]() | Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1895 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
![]() | Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1895 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
![]() | Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1895 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
![]() | Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820 | 1895 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
![]() | Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1895 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
![]() | Pleurobema sintoxia (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1895 | Sterki, Victor | Beach City |
All 87 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beach City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Line Sr 212 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
2 since 2000The National Weather Service names Beach City in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beach City | $20,000 | Straight-line wind damage to church. Extent of damage unknown. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Beach City | - | Dime size hail was reported two miles east of Beach City. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plainsburg (historical) | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Smoketown | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| Wilmot | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Cozy Acres | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Justus | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Park Heights | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Brewster | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Harmon | 4.1 miles | 18 |
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 Beach City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1934678 | 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 1083966. 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.





























