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

Bergholz, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43908. It stands on Upper North Fork. The Survey maps it on the Bergholz quadrangle. 544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Bergholz within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Bergholz fell from 664 to 544 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.

YearPeople Change
2010664
2020544-120 (-18%)

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bergholz, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bergholz, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

12 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Bergholz between 2003 and 2018, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 April 2017Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7808
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12909
16 April 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8205
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources816
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2506
22 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4128

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 223 shown

Museums hold 223 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bergholz between 1896 and 1974: 177 Animalia, 40 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A.W. Cusick, Adams, W. 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 monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Xylaria cubensis, not of this specimenXylaria cubensis (Mont.) Fr.1924Leonard E. C.Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near New Somerset, Saline Twp., Jefferson Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near New Somerset, Saline Twp., Jefferson Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near New Somerset, Saline Twp., Jefferson Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near New Somerset, Saline Twp., Jefferson Co., Ohio
Pseudacris brachyphona (Cope, 1889)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near New Somerset, Saline Twp., Jefferson Co., Ohio

All 223 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

10 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Bergholz in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 2021Tornado (EF1)Bergholz$250,000A ground and aerial drone survey confirmed that a second tornado |formed approximately on the Carroll and Jefferson County line, a |little over two miles north-northwest of Bergholz, Ohio. It is |possible that this second tornado formed inside Carroll County, |but could not be confirmed due to limited access. ||Damage from this tornado was exclusively to trees, although a |residence at the intersection of TR263 and Valleyview Dr suffered |minor exterior damage caused from falling limbs and powerlines. |Drone footage from a densely wooded area northwest of Bergholz |indicated scattered to occasionally numerous downed trees which |were uprooted, snapped and splintered along a focused and |convergent path. Tree damage became more sporadic as the tornado |finally dissipated across the extreme southwest portion of |Bergholz along Washington St.||Given the coverage and damage that occurred to both hard and |softwood trees along the damage path, a higher end EF-1 rating is |assigned to this tornado, with a maximum wind speed of 105 MPH.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBergholz$25,000Widespread tree and line damage across the county, including in Richmond, Steubenville, and Bloomingdale.
September 2003Flash FloodBergholz$10,000North Fork Creek overflowed and flooded State Route 524. Three people had to abandon their car and swim to safety. No injuries.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBergholz$500Local 911 reported a large tree down blocking State Route 164.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBergholz-Broadcast media reported a tree down on Secondary Rd.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBergholz-A trampoline was reported to be wrapped around a tree.
April 2002Flash FloodBergholz-Heavy thunderstorm rains produced minor road flooding in the Bergholz area.
March 2026HailBergholz-no account filed
May 2016HailBergholz-no account filed
April 2002HailBergholz-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
The Eastern1.7 miles16
Circle Green2.5 miles16
Pravo2.7 miles13
Wolf Run3.6 miles16
Amsterdam3.8 miles16
Middleburg4.5 miles16
East Springfield4.9 miles17
Shane5.1 miles17

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 BergholzAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q819798The 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 1064416. 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.