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.
Population over time
2 figuresGlouster 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,791 | |
| 2020 | 1,659 | -132 (-7%) |
Then and now
1911 to 2002The 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 sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
46 since 2006The 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 burning | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LITTLE |
| 12 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BOC FIRE |
| 7 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 329 BRAVO |
| 17 June 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BURLEY FIRE |
| 6 May 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | OLD 78 FIRE |
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7809 |
| 6 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15648 |
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LAKE ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 89 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger | 1919 | L. Bonar | Glouster |
![]() | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
| Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib. of Hocking River; extreme E Ames Twp. | |
![]() | Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal 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 1994The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glouster | $6,000 | Several 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 2013 | Flood | Glouster | $5,000 | Late 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glouster | $5,000 | Trees were downed. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glouster | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down, causing roads to be blocked. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glouster | $2,000 | Several trees and a power line were blown down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glouster | $2,000 | Trees were knocked down in different locations about the community. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glouster | $500 | A tree was blown down near the Trimble Trail apartments in Glouster. |
| March 2026 | Flood | Glouster | - | 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 2026 | Flood | Glouster | - | Sunday Creek began to flood adjacent roads, including Kennedy Road near Trimble High School. |
| April 2025 | Flood | Glouster | - | 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 2024 | Flood | Glouster | - | In Glouster, South Town Street was flooded near Trimble High School. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glouster | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Glouster | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Glouster | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Glouster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2286656 | 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 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.
























