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

Flushing, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Flushing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43977. The Survey maps it on the Flushing quadrangle. 830 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Flushing within Belmont County

Population over time

2 figures

Flushing fell from 879 to 830 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	879
2020	830	-49 (-6%)

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Flushing, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Flushing, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

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.

In the county-history sources

5,223 words on this township

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Flushing Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Flushing township borders upon Harrison County on the north and Guernsey County on the west. It contains 30 sections of land, is 10 miles in length and three miles in width. The soil for the most part is strong limestone and very fertile to the highest summits. The topogra])hy of the country is hilly, reaching an elevation of 1,329 feet above the sea level; nevertheless, the fields upon the topmost hills are crowned with abundant crops. Fruit and grain growing and sheep husbandry are successfully carried on by the farmers of this township, who are for the most part intelligent and well-to-do men, who reside in homes of comfort and plenty.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

The population of Flushing township in 1900 is 2,141, a gain of 451 over the census of 1890. This gain is largely due to the entrance of miners into the township for the operation of the extensive coal mines. Since the opening of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway, these mines have been operated for commercial purposes.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

Among the early settlers of Flushing township were George Brokaw, Sr., Darling Conrow, James Bethel. Elihu and Levi Hollingsworth, Isaac and Jacob Holloway, Asa and . David Branson, Jonathan Cash, Isaac Kirk, Levi Starkey, Stephen Hobson and Elisha Ellis. The children and grandchildren of these hardy pioneers have contributed largely to the growth and prosperity of the township, and their names are still conspicuous among the honored and influential citizens of the county.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

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 Flushing Township - it names this place 16 more 16 times.

Fires near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Flushing between 2003 and 2020, burning about 29 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
24 August 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15821
20 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15232
31 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1501
29 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15096
25 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8053

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 119 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 119 specimens collected within 10 miles of Flushing between 1878 and 1974: 74 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Buker, W.E., 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1971	Cusick, A.W.	disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
Fragaria americana (Porter) Britton	1878	Guttenberg, G.	St. Clairsville
Fragaria virginiana Mill.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	St. Clairsville
Rubus odoratus L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	S of Clairsville
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1884	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J.	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 119 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flushing in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Flushing	$50,000	Emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Flushing.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Flushing	$10,000	A local media channel reported a tree blown into a home, with only minor damage observed.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Flushing	$5,000	Law enforcement reports of multiple trees down in Flushing.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Flushing	$5,000	Trees down along SR 149.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Flushing	$2,000	Tree blown down, across route 149.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Flushing	$2,000	Trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds along Route 331 near Flushing.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Flushing	$1,000	Large branches were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Flushing	-	Numerous trees reported down.
August 2020	Hail	Flushing	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Kennon (historical)	2.1 miles	13
Rock Hill	2.2 miles	13
Lafferty	3.6 miles	12
Holloway	3.6 miles	14
Uniontown	4.2 miles	17
Oco	4.6 miles	17
Donnersville	4.9 miles	17
Egypt	5.5 miles	13

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 Flushing	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2326406	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 1064661. 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.