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Corning, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43730. It lies in Happy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Corning quadrangle. 488 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Corning within Perry County

Population over time

2 figures

Corning fell from 583 to 488 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
2010583
2020488-95 (-16%)

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Corning, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Corning, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the county-history sources

3,203 words on this township

1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Monroe was, for many years, far from market, even with such surlus products as she had to dispose of. Athens, New Lexington and McConnellsville were the nearest markets. All this is changed now. With the building of the Ohio Central, and the establishment of stations at Rendville, Corning, Buckingham and Borbec, the people of the township have as good facilities for shipment, and for coming and going, as any others in the county. |

Passage source: 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883.

Millertown was laid out in 1834, by Jacob Miller. It is located upon a high piece of ground, between the east and west branches of Sunday Creek, and is less than a mile from the new town of Corning. There is from a point a little above Millertown, one of the finest outlooks in Southern Ohio. Millertown has a physician, store, hotel, church, severel shops, and had, according to the census of 1880, eighty-four inhabitants.

Passage source: 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883.

Ferrara was laid out by Nelson Rodgers and James Taylor, in 1871, at the time the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railroad was projected. The railroad failed for the time, and Ferrara has remained a paper town, or almost so, ever since. Ferrara is situated between Corning and Rendville, in a nice, conspicuous place, and several new houses have lately been erected in it. ,

Passage source: 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883.

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 Monroe Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Fires near this place

23 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Corning between 2009 and 2020, burning about 46 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 burning7
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2

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
5 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestALDER
11 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWayne National ForestMILLER TOWN RD
23 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestMUNCY
2 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11385
6 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWayne National ForestWATER WORKS
26 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresWayne National ForestCONGO
16 April 2019Other causes1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15170

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 89 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 89 specimens collected within 10 miles of Corning between 1890 and 1971: 64 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Coker W. C., Conan J. Taylor, Duvel, J.W.T 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 Pucciniastrum hydrangeae (Magnus) ArthurPucciniastrum hydrangeae (Magnus) Arthur1891W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Phaeoceros carolinianus, not of this specimenPhaeoceros carolinianus (Michx.) Prosk.1890W. C. WernerRendville.
A photograph of the species Anomodon attenuatus, not of this specimenAnomodon attenuatus (Hedw.) Huebener1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Anthoceros punctatus, not of this specimenAnthoceros punctatus L.1891not recordedRendville
A photograph of the species Ascocoryne cylichnium, not of this specimenAscocoryne cylichnium (Tul.) Korf1891W. A. Kellerman
Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedw.) Austin1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Callicladium haldanianum, not of this specimenCallicladium haldanianum (Grev.) H.A.Crum1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Gottsche1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Hypnum jutlandicum, not of this specimenHypnum jutlandicum Holmen & E.Warncke1891W. C. WernerRendville
Panellus stipticus (Bull.) P.Karst.1891W. A. KellermanRendville
A photograph of the species Puccinia coronata, not of this specimenPuccinia coronata f. coronata1891W. A. Kellerman
Puccinia punctata Link1891W. A. Kellerman

All 89 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corning in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Flash FloodCorning$100,000Heavy rain from thunderstorms fell over the headwaters of Sunday Creek, north of town. The water surged through the town, flooding several buildings. The American Legion building had about 8 inches of water inside. The rail bed to the Conrail tracks was damaged. The cooperative observer at New Lexington measured 2.9 inches of rain in a 24 hour period that included this time span.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindCorning$30,000The county sheriff reported numerous trees were knocked down. A few homes received minor damage.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindCorning$5,000Trees fell onto power lines, knocking out the electricity.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindCorning$4,000Multiple trees were downed in the Corning area.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCorning$2,000Multiple downed trees blocked the road outside the Corning township.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindCorning$2,000Several trees were blown down. As they fell, they also took down a power line.
July 2017Flash FloodCorning$2,000State Route 155 at the intersection with Congo Road was closed due to flooding along the West Branch of Sunday Creek.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCorning$2,000Several trees were knocked down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCorning$500In Corning, a tree was blown down along Township Road 291 SE.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCorning$250A tree was blown down onto Comly Street in Corning.
June 2009HailCorning-The hail damaged a garden.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindCorning-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Millertown0.5 miles14
Rendville1.2 miles14
Hamburg (historical)1.5 miles14
Congo2.0 miles14
Hatfield2.0 miles14
Drakes2.1 miles15
Chapel Hill2.3 miles14
Buckingham2.7 miles15

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 CorningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668799The 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 1075635. 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.