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Fultonham, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Newton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43738. It stands on Bush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fultonham quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Fultonham within Muskingum County

Population over time

2 figures

Fultonham fell from 176 to 115 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.

YearPeople Change
2010176
2020115-61 (-35%)

Then and now

1910 to 1992

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 Fultonham, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Fultonham, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires nearby

25 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fultonham between 2013 and 2018, burning about 108 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2969
12 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2971
27 May 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1641
3 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4586
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 240 shown

Museums hold 240 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fultonham between 1873 and 1973: 207 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Buker, W., Buker, W.E. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Mesolobus Dunbar & Condra, 1932Mesolobus Dunbar & Condra, 1932 (fossil)1916Wilber StoutVanport. Hopewell Township
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Fissidens adianthoides, not of this specimenFissidens adianthoides Hedw.1892W. C. WernerFultonham
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
A photograph of the species Gyromitra brunnea, not of this specimenGyromitra brunnea Underw.1909Moore S. R.Zanesville
Aglaostigma Kirby, 18821920A.E. Miller
Macrophya Dahlbom, 18351920A.E. Miller
Aceria fraxinicola (Nalepa, 1890)1923Miller, A. E. (August E.)Zanesville, Muskingum Co., OH, U.S.A.
A photograph of the species Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1923Palmer, C.M.Zanesville
A photograph of the species Marchantia polymorpha, not of this specimenMarchantia polymorpha L.1924M. A. TaylorZanesville
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1926Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)Flint Ridge, Licking Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1927not recordedZanesville

All 240 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fultonham: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chesterhill Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Chesterhill Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hammer Number 2 Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Hammer Number 2 Clay MineClayProducer
Johnathan MineLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jonathan MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jonathan MineClayProducer
Sidwell Brothers Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Sidwell Brothers Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms nearby

9 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Fultonham in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Fultonham$5,000A newspaper reported a large tree down.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindEast Fultonham$5,000The public reports twigs and small branches broken.
August 2001Flash FloodEast Fultonham$5,000Nearly two inches of rainfall in just over an hour produced roadway flooding along SR 345.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Fultonham$1,000A tree was blown down on to Hoover Avenue.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Fultonham-Downed trees and power lines were reported in the area.
August 2020HailEast Fultonham-The time of occurrence was estimated from radar data.
June 1995HailEast Fultonham-A few trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindEast Fultonham-A few trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2011HailEast Fultonham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskingum 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
East Fultonham1.1 miles13
Cannon2.0 miles12
White Cottage2.6 miles13
Roberts3.1 miles13
Opera (historical)3.9 miles12
Roberts (historical)4.1 miles13
Elizabeth4.4 miles13
Avondale4.5 miles13

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 FultonhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2418575The 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 1064694. 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.