Empire, Ohio

Empire fell from 299 to 232 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 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1996

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.

• 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Wellsville 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 Liverpool South quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS East Liverpool South quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS East Liverpool South quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS East Liverpool South quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS East Liverpool South quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS East Liverpool South quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1996 USGS East Liverpool South quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Empire between 1995 and 2016, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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:

• Stratton
• Shady Glen
• Sugar Grove
• Port Homer
• Yellow Creek
• Knoxville

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Museums hold 380 specimens collected within 10 miles of Empire between 1836 and 1974: 179 Animalia, 174 Plantae, 27 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A.W. Cusick, Acker, G. 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
	Vitis aestivalis Michx.	1836	Jewett
	Catocala amatrix Hübner, 1813	1941	not recorded	Steubenville, Union Cemetery
	Catocala epione Drury, 1773	1941	not recorded	Richmond, Jefferson State Park
	Carex hirsutella Mack.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Dichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Elymus hystrix L.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Galium circaezans Michx.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	near Steubenville
	Hypericum mutilum L.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Hypericum punctatum Lam.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Luzula echinata (Small) F.J.Herm.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville

All 380 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Empire: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 Jefferson County

The National Weather Service names Empire in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 Jefferson 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 1064622. 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.