Cumberland, Ohio

Cumberland fell from 367 to 317 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 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 1994

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.

• 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000

Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895 names this settlement in its chapter on Spencer Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Cumberland between 2013 and 2019, burning about 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Opperman
• Bluebell
• Claysville
• Antrim
• Birmingham
• Buckeyeville

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 16 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cumberland between 1902 and 1972: 11 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 11 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Adams, S., Arrowsmith, D., Gardner & Delzell, D. 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
	Daedalea ambigua Berk.	1902	Lloyd C. G.	Glenwood
	Desmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	near Derwent, Valley Twp., Guernsey Co., Ohio
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	near Derwent, Valley Twp., Guernsey Co., Ohio
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1931	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Wills Creek tributary, within central Jackson township, near Byesville, Jackson township
	Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1931	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Wills Creek tributary, within central Jackson township, near Byesville, Jackson township
	Polygonia interrogationis (Fabricius, 1798)	1942	not recorded	Toledo
	Claytonia virginica L.	1963	H. Frontz	Westland Twp, section 5, along Crooked Creek 1 mi E of New Concord
	Trillium grandiflorum (Michx.) Salisb.	1963	Arrowsmith, D.	Westland, Twp. Sec. 5
	Potentilla recta L.	1965	Adams, W.; Adams, S.	Westland Twp
	Quercus bicolor Willd.	1966	Moore, Tom	New Concord, 2 mi S, 1 mi E
	Lampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)	1972	Gardner & Delzell, D.	Mays Fork, adjacent SR 146, NW of Cumberland OH, Rich Hill Township

All 16 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cumberland: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Clay. 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 Guernsey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cumberland in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

Every storm recorded in Guernsey County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 6 issues spread across its run from 1893 to 1899, 20,721 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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 1056854. 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.

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.