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

Friendship, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Nile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45630. It stands on Rabbit Run. The Survey maps it on the Friendship quadrangle. 343 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Friendship within Scioto County

Population over time

2 figures

Friendship fell from 351 to 343 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	351
2020	343	-8 (-2%)

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Friendship, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Friendship, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

7,646 words on this township

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Nile Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first school taught in the township was taught about 1814. Now there are nine districts in the township, outside of Buena Vista. They were laid out in 1840. No. 1, is known as the Friendship school and has a two room frame building. Two teachers are employed, salaries of $40 and $35 per month. No. 2, is the Pond Run School. The salary of the teacher is $37.50 per- month. No. 3, is known as the Leatherwood School. The salary of the teacher is $37 .50 per month. No. 4, is known as the Elm Tree. It has a modern two-story frame building with a beautiful spreading elm standing in front. The salaries of the teachers are $40 and $35 per month.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

Friendship is a small settlement on Turkey Creek, a quarter of a mile above the exit of the stream from the hills. For a number of years there were cooper shops in this place, owned by Andrew Angele, John Royse and

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

Wesley Chapel, M. E. Church at Friendship was built in 1897, at a cost of $2,500. It is a modern frame structure with a capacity of about 2,000 sittings. The Trustees are: C. E. Worley, Mitchell Evans, James Pyles, Henry Cuppett and George Vaughters. Rev. John C. Chandler is the minister. Its membership numbers 60, and its Sunday School averages 35. Mitchell Evans is superintendent.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, 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 Nile Township.

Fires near this place

68 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,746 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	14
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	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
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9147
14 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHEEP HOLL
5 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 May 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8166
6 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,237 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,237 specimens collected within 10 miles of Friendship between 1884 and 1975: 1,073 Animalia, 104 Plantae, 51 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, Anson A. Hinkley, B. Blair 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
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1884	H. Mores	Scioto River
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829	1896	not recorded	Scioto River
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens	Alum Rock
Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819	1885	Ch. R. Orcutt	Scioto River
Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)	1897	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
Peronospora polygoni Halst.	1897	F.L. Stevens
Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Sympetrum Newman, 1833	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth
Sympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth
Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Wheelersburg, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 1,237 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$25,000	Several trees and large branches were downed, minor structural damage occurred to a building, and damage to an unfinished portion of a roof occurred due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$20,000	Several trees were downed and a few barns were damaged.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Friendship	$20,000	State Route 125 and United States Route 52 were reported underwater. Four homes were evacuated in Friendship.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Friendship	$15,000	Three homes with a total of six individuals were evacuated in Nile Township near the intersection of US Route 52 and State Route 125. Several streams went out of their banks as well.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$5,000	Five trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds. Three of the trees were downed in the town of Friendship, and two were downed in McDermott.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$5,000	Trees were downed on power lines along State Route 125 due to thunderstorm winds.
May 1996	Tornado (F0)	Friendship	$5,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$4,000	Several trees were downed in the Friendship area.
June 2021	Flood	Friendship	$3,000	A motorist needed to be rescued after getting stuck in high water.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$1,500	A tree was reported knocked down on power lines across Worleys Run Road.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$1,000	A tree was downed at the intersection of State Route 125 and U.S. 52.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$1,000	A large tree fell across Odle Creek Road, just off State Route 125.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$1,000	A tree was downed on State Route 125.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$1,000	A few trees were knocked down.
July 2007	Hail	Friendship	$1,000	Penny size hail fell in Shawnee State Park.
May 2009	Hail	Friendship	$1,000	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Friendship	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Friendship	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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
Dennis	1.1 miles	14
Sugar Grove	2.0 miles	14
Pond Run	2.9 miles	13
Alexandria	3.0 miles	14
Shannoah Town (historical)	3.1 miles	14
Camp Oyo	3.7 miles	13
Kennvale	4.1 miles	13
Stockham	4.6 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 Friendship	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472901	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 1048762. 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.