East Rochester, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44625. It stands on Conser Run. The Survey maps it on the Minerva quadrangle. 224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,115 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEast Rochester fell from 231 to 224 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 | 231 | |
| 2020 | 224 | -7 (-3%) |
Then and now
1910 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 84 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
14 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.
- 1910 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Carrollton 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 Minerva quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Minerva quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Minerva quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
42,133 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on West Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 West Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
10 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of East Rochester between 2003 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1101 |
| 2 May 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1441 |
| 4 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15359 |
| 20 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15988 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 232 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 232 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Rochester between 1878 and 1967: 146 Plantae, 85 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K., Catherine D. Hemphill 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Tringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1878 | Collector(s): Leonard R. Freeman | Ohio Valley |
![]() | Viola L. | 1897 | Holzinger, J.M. | Winona County. |
![]() | Cronartium ribicola A.Dietr. | 1911 | Hicks H. | Winona |
![]() | Pisidium punctiferum (Guppy, 1867) | 1915 | Sterki, Victor | Brook E of Bayard |
![]() | Agallia quadripunctata (Provancher, 1872) | 1923 | not recorded | |
| Braconidae | 1923 | not recorded | ||
| Cynipidae | 1923 | W.V. Balduf | ||
| Ichneumonidae | 1923 | not recorded | ||
| Insecta | 1923 | not recorded | ||
| Schizocerella pilicornis (Holmgren) | 1923 | not recorded | ||
| Tiphia J.C.Fabricius, 1775 | 1923 | not recorded | ||
| Torymidae | 1923 | W.V. Balduf |
All 232 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Rochester in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Rochester | $1,000,000 | A tree was reported down along Lippincot Road. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Rochester | $1,000 | Ohio Department of Highways reported trees down along US 30. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayard | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Lynchburg | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Town And Country Park Estates | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Chambersburg | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| New Alexander | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Moultrie | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Kensington | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Hanoverton | 5.2 miles | 14 |
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 East Rochester | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3473139 | 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 1064588. 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.


















