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Derby, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Darby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43146. The Survey maps it on the Harrisburg quadrangle. 355 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Derby within Pickaway County

Population over time

2 figures

Derby fell from 408 to 355 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
2010408
2020355-53 (-13%)

Then and now

1923 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Derby, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Derby, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 595 shown

Museums hold 595 specimens collected within 10 miles of Derby between 1901 and 1975: 571 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Abbott, R; and others, Abbott, R; vonder Heyden, Jonna, Bartley, F. 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
A photograph of the species Asclepias quadrifolia, not of this specimenAsclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1901C. S. MeadBig Darby Creek
A photograph of the species Lenzites betulinus, not of this specimenLenzites betulinus (L.) Fr.1902Kellerman, W.A.Big Darby
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1932not recordedDarbyville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Hyla versicolor, not of this specimenHyla versicolor LeConte, 18251932Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Darbyville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ruellia humilis, not of this specimenRuellia humilis Nutt.1935Delzie DemareeJohn Bryan State Park, Yellow Springs
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
A photograph of the species Cyprinella whipplei, not of this specimenCyprinella whipplei Girard, 18561939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
A photograph of the species Anguilla rostrata, not of this specimenAnguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)1949Nibling, M. F. (Mary F.)Big Darby Creek, within Darby township, near Orient, Darby township
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181975Abbott, R; vonder Heyden, JonnaDarby Creek
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1975Abbott, R; vonder Heyden, JonnaDarby Creek

All 595 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Derby in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindDerby$5,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDerby$2,000Trees were knocked down on London and Winstead Roads.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindDerby$1,000Numerous large tree branches were downed onto a roadway.
July 2019FloodDerby-High water was approaching a residence along London Road.
June 2015Heavy RainDerby-High water closed numerous roads in Darby Township.

Every storm recorded in Pickaway 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
Era2.6 miles14
Orient3.7 miles13
Matville5.6 miles12
Five Points6.6 miles14
Darbyville6.9 miles13
Commercial Point7.9 miles12
Robtown8.5 miles13
Pherson9.0 miles13

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 DerbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472959The 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 1064533. 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.

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.