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

Clarington, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43915. It stands on Sunfish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Powhatan Point quadrangle. 280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Clarington within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Clarington fell from 384 to 280 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
2010384
2020280-104 (-27%)

Then and now

1905 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clarington, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Clarington, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

5 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Clarington between 2010 and 2020, burning about 17 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
6 May 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4847
1 April 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWAYNE RIDGE ROAD
19 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 February 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15412
8 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 353 shown

Museums hold 353 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clarington between 1860 and 1975: 334 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartholomew, E.A., Buker, W.E., David M. Dennis 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 Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.1924L.L. Lehman
Specimen of Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein.Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein.1931F. O. GroverS of Oak point, woods
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Aralia racemosa, not of this specimenAralia racemosa L.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Astragalus canadensis, not of this specimenAstragalus canadensis L.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Desmodium glutinosum, not of this specimenDesmodium glutinosum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Alph.Wood1877Guttenberg, G.New Martin[s]ville
A photograph of the species Sericocarpus asteroides, not of this specimenSericocarpus asteroides (L.) Britton, Stern & Poggenb.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Asplenium platyneuron, not of this specimenAsplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1878Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Aureolaria virginica, not of this specimenAureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell1879Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Asclepias quadrifolia, not of this specimenAsclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1897Guttenberg, H.G.New Martinville
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181901Sterki, VictorClarington

All 353 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

8 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Clarington in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindClarington$10,000Power lines were reported to be blown down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindClarington$5,000The Department of Highways reported trees down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindClarington$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindClarington$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindClarington-The Department of Highways reported trees down.
August 2003Flash FloodClarington-Serious road flooding of State Route 7, from Clarington to Hannibal to Duffy.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindClarington-Trees down.
June 2002Flash FloodClarington-Heavy thunderstorm rains produced minor roadway flooding in the Clarington area.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Stillhouse Run (historical)1.4 miles15
Cameron3.9 miles15
Oak4.0 miles18
Dwight4.5 miles15
Switzer4.9 miles15
Rockport (historical)5.4 miles17
Round Bottom5.6 miles18
Goodwin6.3 miles18

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 ClaringtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2194236The 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 1056805. 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.