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

Heath, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Heath City. It lies in ZIP code area 43056. It stands on Ramp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle. 10,412 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Heath within Licking County

Population over time

2 figures

Heath grew from 10,310 to 10,412 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
201010,310
202010,412+102 (+1%)

Then and now

1909 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Heath, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Heath, surveyed 1909

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

2 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Heath between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning2

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
5 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources842
10 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15953

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,828 shown

Museums hold 2,828 specimens collected within 10 miles of Heath between 1843 and 1975: 2,499 Animalia, 247 Fungi, 53 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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 Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581884F. S. Robinson
Specimen of Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822Cylindrosporium Grev., 18221893unknownLicking Reservoir
Specimen of Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
A photograph of the species Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypnum paludosum, not of this specimenHypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853Mack, D. (Don)Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Philomachus pugnax, not of this specimenPhilomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Jasper, T. (Theodore)Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891874not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)1878Savage, E. (Ed)Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aix sponsa, not of this specimenAix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 2,828 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

29 since 2007

The National Weather Service names Heath in 29 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2020Flash FloodHeath$100,000A trailer park was evacuated due to fast rising waters. Numerous roads were also flooded throughout the county.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHeath$50,000Three industrial buildings were damaged due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2025FloodHeath$8,000A vehicle was driven into high standing water, prompting a water rescue off of Custer Road.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHeath$8,000Numerous trees and power lines were reported down. Structural damage occurred to barns and sheds. One shed was destroyed.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHeath$4,000A few trees and power lines were knocked down in the Heath and Newark areas.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHeath$4,000Several trees were downed and some shingles were blown off of a roof.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHeath$3,000Several trees were knocked down.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindHeath$1,000A tree and some large branches were downed in the Granville and Newark areas.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHeath$1,000Several tree limbs were knocked down by the thunderstorm winds. Also a trailer was moved in the Crystal Court area.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHeath$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHeath$500A few shingles were blown off of a structure.
August 2020FloodHeath-High water was reported on Hebron Rd.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindHeath-Wind gust was measured at the VTA airport.
July 2017Flash FloodHeath-Water was flowing across the intersection of Andover Road and Hebron Road.
July 2017FloodHeath-The South Fork of the Licking River was out of its bank along Licking View Drive. Water was over the road and approaching homes.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHeath-The public estimated the gust.
July 2009HailHeath-Penny to quarter size hail were reported.
March 2026HailHeath-no account filed
April 2025HailHeath-no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHeath-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHeath-no account filed
March 2024HailHeath-no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindHeath-no account filed
November 2020Thunderstorm WindHeath-no account filed
March 2019Thunderstorm WindHeath-no account filed
March 2017HailHeath-no account filed
March 2017HailHeath-no account filed
November 2013Thunderstorm WindHeath-no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHeath-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Idlewild Park (historical)0.5 miles12
Locust Grove1.4 miles12
Central City (historical)1.6 miles12
Lloyd Corners2.3 miles12
Fleatown2.9 miles14
Newark3.3 miles12
Union Station3.6 miles10
Sandstone Canyon3.9 miles11

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 HeathAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1008645The 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 1056322. 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.