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Bloomingburg, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paint Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43106. The Survey maps it on the Washington Court House quadrangle. 878 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Bloomingburg within Fayette County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Bloomingburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bloomingburg, surveyed 1906

Population over time

2 figures

Bloomingburg fell from 938 to 878 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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
2010938
2020878-60 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed 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

5,832 words on this township

History of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914; History of Fayette County Ohio, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Paint Township covers early settlement, incidents^educational, churches, secret organizations in, the war with garfield, bloomingbury.

Read the chapter on Paint Township - 5,832 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bloomingburg in 2011, burning under an acre 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
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
26 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 195 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 195 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bloomingburg between 1907 and 1974: 189 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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 Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1965H. AlthearnDeer Creek, 3.8 Mile NNE Of Pancoastburg
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview, Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lagopus, not of this specimenButeo lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Falco rusticolus, not of this specimenFalco rusticolus obsoletus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Washington C.H., Fayette, Ohio, USA
Tiphiidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Madison, Fayette Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #10 Fayette Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Sugar Creek, near NE corner of Clinton County OH locality is approximate based off Fishes of Ohio distribution map
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus (Mitchill, 1814)1930MB TrautmanNorth Fork of Paint Creek, Center of Madison Twp

All 195 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomingburg in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
October 1999Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg2 hurt, $50,000A downburst from a thunderstorm blew a mobile home on its side causing minor injuries to the two occupants. Trees and utility poles were also uprooted and knocked across main roads and railroad tracks.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Bloomingburg$35,000A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed that a tornado touched down three miles west of Bloomingburg. Near the beginning of the path one barn was damaged and another barn was destroyed. Further along the path another barn was damaged due to the tornado. The estimated maximum wind speed based on damage was eighty miles per hour.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$15,000Farm equipment was overturned, power poles were down, and trees were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. One tree fell onto a home.
June 2008HailBloomingburg$15,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$10,000Multiple trees were downed in the area of Bloomingburg due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$10,000A small shed was blown onto a road near Bloomingburg. A tree fell onto a garage west of New Holland, producing minor damage to the roof and door.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$6,000A tree was downed on a vehicle near the intersection of State Route 38 and Bloomingburg-New Holland Road, causing some minor damage. A power pole was downed on Old Springfield Road to the east of Washington Court House.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$5,000Trees knocked down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$4,000A home sustained some roof damage.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$3,000Trees were knocked down.
May 2001Flash FloodBloomingburg$3,000Water was reported covering State Route 38 between Interstate 71 and Bloomingburg
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$3,000Large trees downed.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$2,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$2,000Trees and power poles were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
October 2006HailBloomingburg$2,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$1,000Several street signs were blown over and embedded into the ground due to thunderstorm winds.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$1,000A tree was downed near Bloomingburg due to thunderstorm winds.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindBloomingburg$1,000no account filed
April 2017Flash FloodBloomingburg-High water was reported over the road near the intersection of U.S.62 and New Holland Rd.
June 2009HailBloomingburg-Reports of three quarters of an inch to one inch hail came in from Bloomingburg to Washington Court House.
June 2006FloodBloomingburg-The intersection of State Routes 38 and 734 was flooded.
April 2011HailBloomingburg-no account filed
April 2010HailBloomingburg-no account filed
April 2010HailBloomingburg-no account filed
June 2000HailBloomingburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Manara4.4 miles11
Madison Mills4.5 miles10
Olympia (historical)4.5 miles11
Eber4.6 miles11
Washington Oaks4.7 miles11
Kingfred (historical)4.9 miles11
Washington Court House5.3 miles11
Johnson5.3 miles11

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 BloomingburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q885382The 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 1064455. 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.