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

Greenwich, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenwich Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44837. The Survey maps it on the Greenwich quadrangle. 1,409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Greenwich within Huron County

Population over time

2 figures

Greenwich fell from 1,476 to 1,409 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	1,476
2020	1,409	-67 (-5%)

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenwich, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Greenwich, surveyed 1915

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

2,166 words on this township

History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909 names this settlement in its chapter on Greenwich Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Greenwich was attached, in 1815, to New Haven, or was within the jurisdiction of that township (for civil purposes). In 1819, Greenwich, Fitchville and Hartland were united, and an election was held in that year, at the house of Thomas B. White, for the purpose of choosing officers for the territory included within the three. Hartland was detached in 1820, and in 1823, Greenwich was separated from Fitchville and organized as a separate township, the first election being held at Thomas B. White's house, and the following officers elected: Jeremiah Rusco, Henry Washburne, trustees; David W. Briggs, clerk; Varney Pearce, justice of the peace; Ephraim F. Barker, constable.

Passage source: History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909.

For a number of vears after the first settlers came into Greenwich, there was no regularly ordained minister living in the township, and when there was preaching, it was by some of the ministers from neighboring townships. Religious meetings were held frequently, and preachers of all denominations had assurance when they came here that they would be met by audiences of large size (for these times) and gladly listened to. The township had a large element of Quaker population, and many of its earliest pioneers were of this people. The first Quakers, or Friends, came to Greenwich in 1818, just eighteen years after the first Friends' settlement in Ohio.

Passage source: History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909.

The first settler in Greenwich was Henry Carpenter, who came from Ulster county, New York, in 1817, and located upon lot twenty-two, in section two. He died in the fall of the following year, from over exertion at a house raising, leaving a wife and four children.

Passage source: History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909.

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 Greenwich Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 620 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 620 specimens collected within 10 miles of Greenwich between 1885 and 1974: 434 Plantae, 99 Animalia, 72 Fungi, 15 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Baumgartner, L., C. E. Jennings 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
Hemiarcyria stipata (Schwein.) Rostaf., 1876	1885	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum inaequale Peck, 1878	1885	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Chondrioderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Rostaf., 1873	1886	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Trichia proximella P.Karst., 1879	1889	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel., 1792	1889	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 1899	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum ellipsosporum Rostaf., 1876	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum relatum Morgan, 1896	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Calonema aureum Morgan, 1893	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Didymium eximium Peck, 1878	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein., 1805	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum sulphureum Alb. & Schwein., 1805	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston

All 620 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Greenwich: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Acme Paving and Sealing Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Costein Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Costein Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwich in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwich	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in and around Greenwich.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwich	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph. A few trees were downed.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwich	$5,000	Several large trees were reported down.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwich	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and one large branch.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwich	$3,000	Tree limbs and power poles downed in Greenwich.
April 2003	Hail	Greenwich	$2,000	Dime size hail was observed.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwich	$1,200	Utility pole downed in Greenwhich.
March 2024	Flash Flood	Greenwich	-	Pictures and a video of 6 to 12 inches of flowing water over Alpha Road near Greenwich, OH due to a stream/ditch overflowing its banks. Radar estimated 2 to 2.5 inches of rainfall in a 2 to 3 hour period.
June 2013	Hail	Greenwich	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
June 2013	Hail	Greenwich	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.
June 2013	Hail	Greenwich	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2009	Hail	Greenwich	-	Quarter size hail was observed.
May 2007	Hail	Greenwich	-	Quarter size hail was observed.
June 2006	Hail	Greenwich	-	Penny size hail was observed.
April 2005	Hail	Greenwich	-	Penny size hail was observed.
August 2005	Hail	Greenwich	-	Penny size hail was observed.
April 2004	Hail	Greenwich	-	Penny size hail was observed.
May 1998	Flash Flood	Greenwich	-	Heavy thunderstorm rain caused flooding of U.S. Route 224 and a few other roads in the vicinity.

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Woodlyn Acres	3.6 miles	12
Fitchville	4.7 miles	12
Delphi	4.9 miles	13
Boughtonville	5.3 miles	13
Branchwood Estates	7.1 miles	13
North Fairfield	7.2 miles	13
New London	7.2 miles	12
Hanville Corners	8.0 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 Greenwich	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2246925	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 1064763. 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.

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.