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.
Population over time
2 figuresClarington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 384 | |
| 2020 | 280 | -104 (-27%) |
Then and now
1905 to 1988The 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 sheets covering this place
15 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Moundsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
Fires nearby
5 since 2010The 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 burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4847 |
| 1 April 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WAYNE RIDGE ROAD |
| 19 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15412 |
| 8 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 353 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat. | 1924 | L.L. Lehman | |
![]() | Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein. | 1931 | F. O. Grover | S of Oak point, woods |
![]() | Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819 | 1860 | unknown | Willow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr. |
![]() | Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867) | 1860 | unknown | Willow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr. |
![]() | Aralia racemosa L. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Astragalus canadensis L. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Desmodium glutinosum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Alph.Wood | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martin[s]ville |
![]() | Sericocarpus asteroides (L.) Britton, Stern & Poggenb. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Asplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Aureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell | 1879 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq. | 1897 | Guttenberg, H.G. | New Martinville |
![]() | Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818 | 1901 | Sterki, Victor | Clarington |
All 353 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
8 since 1999The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarington | $10,000 | Power lines were reported to be blown down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarington | $5,000 | The Department of Highways reported trees down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarington | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarington | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarington | - | The Department of Highways reported trees down. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Clarington | - | Serious road flooding of State Route 7, from Clarington to Hannibal to Duffy. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarington | - | Trees down. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Clarington | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains produced minor roadway flooding in the Clarington area. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stillhouse Run (historical) | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Cameron | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Oak | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Dwight | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Switzer | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Rockport (historical) | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Round Bottom | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Goodwin | 6.3 miles | 18 |
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 Clarington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2194236 | 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 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.


























