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

Glouster, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Trimble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45732. It stands on West Branch Sunday Creek. The Survey maps it on the Corning quadrangle. 1,659 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Glouster within Athens County

Population over time

2 figures

Glouster fell from 1,791 to 1,659 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
20101,791
20201,659-132 (-7%)

Then and now

1911 to 2002

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 Glouster, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Glouster, surveyed 1911

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.

Fires nearby

46 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Glouster between 2006 and 2020, burning about 52 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 burning26
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestLITTLE
12 August 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBOC FIRE
7 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest329 BRAVO
17 June 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBURLEY FIRE
6 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestOLD 78 FIRE
9 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7809
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15648
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestLAKE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 89 shown

Museums hold 89 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glouster between 1898 and 1975: 76 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bolen, H. (Harold), Collector(s): John W. Meldrim, DAVID M SEVER 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
A photograph of the species Sporobolus vaginiflorus, not of this specimenSporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood1898Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631916not recorded
A photograph of the species Uromyces appendiculatus, not of this specimenUromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger1919L. BonarGlouster
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 19561929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib. of Hocking River; extreme E Ames Twp.
A photograph of the species Lepomis megalotis, not of this specimenLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp

All 89 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

14 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Glouster in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGlouster$6,000Several large and healthy trees were snapped and power lines were downed in the town of Glouster. Another tree fell onto a porch of a home.
July 2013FloodGlouster$5,000Late on the 9th, Sunday Creek crested at Glouster between 15 and 16 feet. ||Route 13 north of Glouster and its intersection with Route 329 in Trimble were flooded and closed.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindGlouster$5,000Trees were downed.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGlouster$3,000Trees were knocked down, causing roads to be blocked.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGlouster$2,000Several trees and a power line were blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGlouster$2,000Trees were knocked down in different locations about the community.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGlouster$500A tree was blown down near the Trimble Trail apartments in Glouster.
March 2026FloodGlouster-Sunday Creek at Glouster rose above a bankfull level of 13 feet on the morning of March 5th, then continued to rise to a crest near 15.1 feet that evening. The creek then slowly receded back below bankfull level the next morning. Flooding took place in many locations, including the Trimble High School parking lot, Center Street and Route 13 near Congress Street in Trimble, Palmer Street in Jacksonville, and West Main Street, portions of Oakdale Road, South Town Street, Kennedy Road, and Glouster Memorial Park in Glouster.
March 2026FloodGlouster-Sunday Creek began to flood adjacent roads, including Kennedy Road near Trimble High School.
April 2025FloodGlouster-The Glouster High School parking lot, nearby ballfields, and South Town Street were inundated with high water. Flooding also closed State Route 329, and State Route 13 from State Route 78 to Taylor Ridge Road.
January 2024FloodGlouster-In Glouster, South Town Street was flooded near Trimble High School.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGlouster-no account filed
July 2003HailGlouster-no account filed
April 2002HailGlouster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Trimble1.3 miles19
Oakdale1.4 miles14
Hollister1.5 miles14
Derthick1.8 miles19
Olbers1.9 miles19
Jacksonville1.9 miles19
Hunterdon2.0 miles14
Palos2.1 miles14

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 GlousterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2286656The 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 1075930. 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.