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

Calcutta, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in St. Clair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43920. The Survey maps it on the East Liverpool North quadrangle. 3,941 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.

Calcutta within Columbiana County

Population over time

3 figures

Calcutta grew from 1,121 to 3,941 between 1980 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
19801,121
20103,742
20203,941+199 (+5%)

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Calcutta, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Calcutta, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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

30 since 1999

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Calcutta between 1999 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6346
21 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15816
19 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryKITCHEL AVE. NEAR NEWELL
7 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15128
6 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryNEWELL
5 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1090
25 April 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13846

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 509 shown

Museums hold 509 specimens collected within 10 miles of Calcutta between 1895 and 1975: 311 Animalia, 178 Plantae, 20 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Athearn, Herbert D. 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 Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.SalmonSphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon1916E.K. SeymourLower campus
Specimen of Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) MurrillIrpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill1917OverholtsW. Elkton
Specimen of Polyporus galactinus Berk.Polyporus galactinus Berk.1917OverholtsW. Elkton
A photograph of the species Polyporus luridus, not of this specimenPolyporus luridus Kalchbr.1895Holden Wm.Spring Grove
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedEast Liverpool
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1900Shafer, J.A.[Glasglow], Smiths Ferry
A photograph of the species Alnus serrulata, not of this specimenAlnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, Near Clarkson , Ohio.
A photograph of the species Antennaria plantaginifolia, not of this specimenAntennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Epigaea repens, not of this specimenEpigaea repens L.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Hetaerina americana, not of this specimenHetaerina americana (Fabricius, 1798)1901E. B. WilliamsonClarkson
Valerianella Mill.1901Miller, J.Rough Run near Clarkson
Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, near Clarkson

All 509 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Calcutta: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Landsberry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Globe Number 1 MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Globe Refractories, Inc.ClayProducer

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Storms nearby

14 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Calcutta in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 2022Thunderstorm WindCalcutta$50,000Trees and power lines were reported down across southern portions of Columbiana County.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCalcutta$50,000Emergency management reported numerous trees down in Calcutta.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCalcutta$50,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 MPH blew a pickup truck into several other vehicles in a parking lot. A tent-greenhouse constructed with a metal-pipe/aluminum frame was also destroyed in the parking lot, with the tent framing damaging several cars as it blew across the area.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindCalcutta$25,000Multiple trees were reported down across St. Clair Township.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCalcutta$20,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
November 2017Tornado (EF1)Calcutta$10,000The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh PA confirmed a tornado near Calcutta in Columbiana County Ohio on November 5th. The tornado was estimated to be an EF1 which produced mostly tree damage to hardwood and softwood trees. The tornado started near Vernon Dell Tractor and moved eastward into the town of Calcutta. There|were several trees that fell behind the YMCA. The roof top cooling units on the YMCA were ripped off.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCalcutta$5,000Large trees down.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindCalcutta$2,000Local fire department reported several trees down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCalcutta$2,000Tree down on Lisbon Rd.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCalcutta$500Member of the public reported a large tree down on Midland Fredricktown Road on Social Media.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCalcutta-Numerous trees down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindCalcutta-A 911 Call Center reported multiple trees down across Columbiana County.
May 2019HailCalcutta-A trained spotter reported 1 inch diameter hail.
July 2007HailCalcutta-The public reported penny size hail on a golf course in Calcutta.

Every storm recorded in Columbiana 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
Santa Clara Estates0.9 miles22
Grimms Bridge1.9 miles22
Cannons Mill1.9 miles22
La Croft2.2 miles22
Sprucevale2.3 miles22
Glenmoor2.5 miles22
Pleasant Heights2.9 miles22
Glendale3.1 miles22

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 CalcuttaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2630411The 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 1056753. 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.