East Palestine, Ohio

East Palestine grew from 4,721 to 4,761 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 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Unity 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 12 fires within 5 miles of East Palestine between 2010 and 2019, burning about 21 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:

• Jimtown
• Achor
• Mill Rock
• Wheat Hill Estates
• Clearwood Court
• East Carmel

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 424 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Palestine between 1882 and 1975: 219 Animalia, 190 Plantae, 15 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bright, J., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K. 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
	Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson	1885	Shafer, J.A.	Petersburg
	Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill	1917	Overholts	W. Elkton
	Polyporus galactinus Berk.	1917	Overholts	W. Elkton
	Solanum dulcamara L.	1882	Shafer, J.A.	near Petersburg
	Equisetum hyemale subsp. affine (A.Braun & Engelm.) A.A.Eaton	1883	Shafer, J.A.	near Petersburg
	Levisticum officinale W.D.J.Koch	1883	Shafer, J.A.	Petersburg
	Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1884	Shafer, J.A.	Near Petersburg Cemetery
	Armoracia rusticana P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1884	Shafer, J.A.	Wm. Hills place near Petersburg
	Botrychium dissectum Spreng.	1884	Shafer, J.A.	near Petersburg
	Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.	1884	Shafer, J.A.	near Petersburg
	Chelone glabra L.	1884	Shafer, J.A.	near Petersburg
	Clematis virginiana L.	1884	Shafer, J.A.	Petersburg

All 424 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Palestine: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Bituminous. 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 Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Palestine in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 Columbiana County

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 1064586. 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.