Catawba, Ohio

Catawba fell from 272 to 245 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.

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1986

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.

• 1907 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Pleasant township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

The History of Clark County Ohio,, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Pleasant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 283 specimens collected within 10 miles of Catawba between 1893 and 1974: 282 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward, Binkley, L. E. (Lowell), E. F. M. Wilcox 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Chara vulgaris L.	1893	E. F. M. Wilcox	Springfield
	Palpomyia subasper (Coquillett, 1901)	1914	Marion W. Boesel	Catawba
	Atrichopogon fusculus (Coquillett, 1901)	1925	E. H.	Catawba
	Atrichopogon websteri (Coquillett, 1901)	1925	E. H.	Catawba
	Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818	1925	W. S. H.	Catawba
	Palpomyia Meigen, 1818	1925	not recorded	Catawba
	Probezzia Kieffer, 1906	1925	not recorded	Catawba
	Probezzia infuscata Malloch, 1915	1925	not recorded	Catawba
	Jenkinshelea albaria (Coquillett, 1895)	1926	not recorded	Catawba
	Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1927	Thomas, E. S. (Edward S.)	Near South Vienna, Clark Co., Ohio
	Rana catesbeiana Shaw, 1802	1927	Thomas, E. S. (Edward S.)	Near South Vienna, Clark Co., Ohio
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp

All 283 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Catawba: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catawba in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Clark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056775. 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.