Caledonia, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Claridon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43314. It stands on Flat Run. The Survey maps it on the Caledonia quadrangle. 560 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Caledonia within Marion County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Caledonia, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Caledonia, surveyed 1913

On record in Caledonia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Caledonia Bowstring Bridgelisted 1978
Caledonia Public Square and North Water Street Historic Districtlisted 2023
Temple and Masonic Block Buildingslisted 2021

Population over time

2 figures

Caledonia fell from 577 to 560 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	577
2020	560	-17 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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.

1913 USGS Mount Gilead quadrangle1:62500
1916 USGS Mount Gilead quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Mount Gilead quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Caledonia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

79,933 words on this township

The History of Marion County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc; General and Local Statistics; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Claridon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Of course these en trios do not show what part the citizens of both town ships outside of those on the territory in controversy did for its possession, but that the struggle was fierce and prolonged and that the citizens of both townships were much interested in the result, and that their influence and possibly some of their time and money were given to maintain their respective rights, there can be no doubt. Scott Township apparently laid no stronger claim to it other than that it would equalize the territory of the two townships, and Claridon did not seem disposed to yield quietly and submit passively to the loss of one-sixth of her valuable territory on such a flimsy pretext. Had Scott Township succeeded in securing and retaining this tier of sections, the village of Calodonia. which is now the pride of the township, would have been lost to Claridon, for it is located in Section 1 of this township.

Passage source: The History of Marion County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc; General and Local Statistics; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio, published 1883.

In December, 1863, this township was divided by the County Commissioners into two election precincts by a " parallel line running directly through said township east and west, said division line being marked by a township road leading through the center of said township east and west, just south of the residence of the late Jonathan Miles; the portion of thetownship lying north of said road to form the North or Caledonia Pracinct, and that portion lying south of said road the South or Claridon Precinct, of Claridon Township."

The northern portion of the township received a few settlers at an early date, but the settlements there did not at first increase as rapidly as the one around the village of Claridon. Capt. George Beckley in his reminiscences of the early settlement of the Whetstone Valley, in Marion County, Ohio, written by him and published in 1875, says that when he came to this part of the township with his father and his father's family in 1821, Daniel Wyatt and Thomas Van Horn lived near where Caledonia now stands. In fact, Caledonia is located on a part of the land then owned by them. He also speaks of Jeremiah Colden and Isaiah Mattix as haviug been employed by his father to erect his cabin, and, doubtless, they, too, were located near the same place.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Claridon Township - it names this place 82 more 82 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 72 specimens collected within 10 miles of Caledonia between 1837 and 1969: 59 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Ogilvie, Brown, H P, Collector(s): D. W. Kohlhorst 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Sagittaria latifolia Willd.	1837	Frank B
Sicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius	1837	Frank B	in civitatate Ohio
Elasmus albizziae Burks, 1965	1964	J. Peacock	[Not Stated]
Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.	1919	W. J. Campbell	Edison
Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Marion
Helminthosporium teres Sacc.	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Marion
Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Marion
Photinus pyralis (Linnaeus, 1767)	1923	not recorded	Marion
Rallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 1819	1923	Lyle D. Miller	Claridon, Lake Aquilla
Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1924	Lyle D. Miller	Claridon
Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)	1942	Rausch, R. (Robert)	1/2 mi. S of Marion, Marion Twp., Marion Co., Ohio
Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)	1942	Rausch, R. (Robert)	Pennsylvania Ave. & Indiana Ave., Marion, Marion Co., Ohio

All 72 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Caledonia: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	Caledonia Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caledonia in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$125,000	A thunderstorm downburst caused significant damage in and around Caledonia. An older brick building collapsed from the winds. A nearby barn lost it's roof and dozens of trees were toppled. Many power lines were knocked down resulting in scattered power outages.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two trees. One of the trees land on a car and crushed it.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs in the Caledonia area.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$6,000	Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and several large limbs.
May 2003	Hail	Caledonia	$2,000	Nickel size hail was observed.
July 2002	Hail	Caledonia	$2,000	Dime size hail was observed.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed one tree.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$2,000	Trees and power lines were downed.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	Several trees downed in Caledonia, one of which fell onto a house. Emergency manager didn't note any damage to house.
May 1998	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed
February 1998	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wood Valley	1.3 miles	13
Stringtown (historical)	2.8 miles	12
Martel	3.8 miles	12
Claridon	4.0 miles	13
Kirkpatrick	4.2 miles	11
Beech (historical)	5.4 miles	13
Air View Acres	5.9 miles	12
Logan (historical)	5.9 miles	12

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 Caledonia	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q683507	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 1056754. 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.

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.