Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

East Sparta, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pike Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44626. The Survey maps it on the Waynesburg quadrangle. 749 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

East Sparta within Stark County

Population over time

2 figures

East Sparta fell from 819 to 749 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	819
2020	749	-70 (-9%)

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Sparta, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of East Sparta, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 1881 county history

743 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pike Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pike Township - 743 words.

Fires nearby

14 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of East Sparta between 2003 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
26 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15797
6 April 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2005	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12785

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 264 shown

Museums hold 264 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Sparta between 1836 and 1975: 241 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Anson A. Hinkley, Antonio, T., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872	1940	not recorded	Navarre
Carex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
Carex intumescens Rudge	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	not recorded	Canton
Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Picoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Regulus satrapa satrapa Lichtenstein, 1823	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton

All 264 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Sparta: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
D and M Pit	Clay, Coal	Past Producer
Oster Sand & Gravel Bolivar Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sandyville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
D and M Clay and Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Romaay Pits	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Romany Plant & Pits	Clay	Plant

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms nearby

10 since 2001

The National Weather Service names East Sparta in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2006	Tornado (F1)	East Sparta	$500,000	The same parent thunderstorm that produced a tornado in northeastern Holmes County spawned a second tornado in southeastern Stark County. A F1 tornado touched down east of East Sparta around 5:58 pm. This tornado moved east into Waynesburg where it followed Lisbon Street through the center of town and then lifted. The tornado had a damage path roughly three and a half miles long and no more than 50 yards in width. Hundreds of trees were downed along the damage path. Many of these trees were in Waynesburg where the top floor of a three story building in the downtown area was tore off. A second building on Mill Street also sustained significant damage. Other buildings on the east side of the city also sustained some damage. Twenty two utility poles were snapped in the Waynesburg area as well. Straight line winds associated with the parent thunderstorms may have contributed to this damage.
April 2002	Hail	East Sparta	$40,000	Golf ball size hail was reported.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	East Sparta	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs in Pike Township near East Sparta.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	East Sparta	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed three trees and a few large limbs in and around East Sparta.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	East Sparta	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	East Sparta	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	East Sparta	-	Tree downed along Ridge Avenue, about one-mile west of East Sparta.
September 2013	Hail	East Sparta	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2007	Hail	East Sparta	-	Nickel size hail was observed.
May 2006	Hail	East Sparta	-	Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Stark 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Battlesburg	2.3 miles	17
Magnolia	3.2 miles	17
Howenstine	3.6 miles	17
Fohl Village	4.9 miles	16
North Industry	5.0 miles	17
Goodland Acres	5.0 miles	17
Waynesburg	5.2 miles	17
Hardscrabble (historical)	5.8 miles	17

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 Sparta	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023487	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 1061041. 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.