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Canal Winchester, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 43110. It stands on Wild Violet Run. The Survey maps it on the Canal Winchester quadrangle. 9,107 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Canal Winchester within Fairfield County

Population over time

2 figures

Canal Winchester grew from 7,101 to 9,107 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
20107,101
20209,107+2,006 (+28%)

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canal Winchester, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Canal Winchester, surveyed 1925

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

2 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Canal Winchester between 2012 and 2020, burning about 25 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 burning2

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
7 March 2012Debris and open burning25 acresWayne National ForestSR 522
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15924

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 763 shown

Museums hold 763 specimens collected within 10 miles of Canal Winchester between 1891 and 1974: 752 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brzoska, D., C. A. Petrovic, Caldwell 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 Kuehneola uredinis (Link) ArthurKuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur1891Freda DetmersRock Mill
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1891W. C. WernerCarroll
A photograph of the species Funaria hygrometrica, not of this specimenFunaria hygrometrica Hedw.1891W. C. WernerCarroll
A photograph of the species Allocapnia vivipara, not of this specimenAllocapnia vivipara (Claassen, 1924)1896not recorded
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonLittle Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonLittle Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis photogenis, not of this specimenNotropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonLittle Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis spilopterus, not of this specimenNotropis spilopterus spilopterus1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonLittle Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Melissodes denticulatus, not of this specimenMelissodes denticulatus Smith, 18541914Fattig, PPickerington
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Woods, Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio
Myiarchus crinitus (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Violet Twp, Fairfield Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Woods, Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio

All 763 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Winchester Trace0.4 miles16
Chester Heights0.8 miles16
Woodstream2.5 miles16
Lithopolis2.8 miles16
Jefferson Woods3.0 miles12
Jefferson3.1 miles16
Lockville Station3.3 miles12
Slough3.8 miles16

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 Canal WinchesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1026010The 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 1048579. 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.