BlockHebron, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43025. The Survey maps it on the Thornville quadrangle. 2,326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1909 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1909 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresHebron fell from 2,336 to 2,326 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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 | 2,336 | |
| 2020 | 2,326 | -10 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed 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.
- 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
111,602 words on this townshipHistory of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Ezekiel Cunningham, esq., but the largest is on the farm of Zephaniah Alward. The summit of this would command the view of a large scope of country if the timber were removed, and signals could be easily exchanged between this and those on the hills near Hebron, or with those about Union Station, and perhaps with not more than one repeating, to Columbus. I put up with Mr. John Deeds, on York street, and spent one day in this vicinity, and found several mounds. From here I traveled south and crossed the South fork into Titna township, and clown the county line, south of the Bloody Run swamp to the Baltimore road, thence to Hebron, and along the east line of the township, back to Union Station. In this trip I sometimes laid down fences and rode through farms, and sometimes would jeave my horse and walk a mile to examine some objective point, and I have found these mounds everywhere on this territory, both on the hills and plains, in sufficient number to overook the whole surface of the land, and I do not believe that within the bounds of mv research there can be found a single fifty acre lot that can not be viewed from some one or more of these artificial mounds. I have examitied the location of more than one hundred, and have not found a single exception to the rule that each one is so situated as to command a view, more or less of which cannot be seen from any other, except in a few instances where they were double or in pairs. This rule, how. ever, would not hold good where they are found on a level plain in clusters, which is sometimes the case. On this trip I met with Mr. Jesse Thompson, of Hebron, but formerly of Fairfield county, Ohio, who informed me that when he first settled on Walnut creek, in Fairfield county, about the beginning of the present century, there was a graded road, easily traced in the timber; that it was some thiity or forty feet wide between the ditches, and appeared to be as old as the forts and mounds and he always thought it to be a road leading from the works near Newark to those at Circleville, as it was on a line between those points. But I have met with nothing of the kind, nor do I suppose that, in the present improved state of the country it could be found.
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
Wheat was grown with good success for many years, but after awhile failures became more frequent from rust and the wheat midge, and for the last twenty-five years the farmers have given their attention to the growth of live stock, principally sheep, rather than to the production of grain. While this township gives attention to the growth of all kinds of live stock common to this part of the country, it stands first in the
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
The Methodists were probably the first to organize church in this township, but its earlier history is volved in obscurity, as will be observed. The casional preaching of Father Emmet, who was the st, or among the first to hold religious services the township, resulted in the organization of a ciety in 1810, under authority of the conference, f Rev. J. B. Finley, also a pioneer preacher, and le of considerable note.
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
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 Union Township - it names this place 17 more 17 times.
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hebron between 2009 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15708 |
| 15 April 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15709 |
| 1 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15969 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,511 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,511 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hebron between 1843 and 1975: 2,191 Animalia, 244 Fungi, 47 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 | 1884 | F. S. Robinson | |
 | Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822 | 1893 | unknown | Licking Reservoir |
 | Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc. | 1893 | J.B. Ellis | Granville |
 | Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth. | 1843 | Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
 | Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1843 | A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
 | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | Mack, D. (Don) | Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1872 | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA |
 | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789 | 1874 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Calidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813) | 1878 | Savage, E. (Ed) | Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
 | Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789 | 1880 | not recorded | Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA |
All 2,511 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
20 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hebron in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $8,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down in Hebron. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $4,000 | A few trees and power lines were downed near the intersection of Beaver Run Road and Blacks Road SE. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $3,000 | Trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $2,000 | A few trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $1,000 | A tree was downed near Cedar Drive and East Main Street. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $1,000 | A few small trees and branches were downed. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $1,000 | Several large limbs were knocked down on Main Street between 4th and 5th Streets. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $1,000 | A large tree was downed near the intersection of 9th Avenue and North Street. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $1,000 | A few trees downed due to thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron | $1,000 | A tree was blown down and blocking a road due to thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hebron | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Flood | Hebron | - | Widespread high water was reported at a mobile home park. Additional flooding was reported along a portion of Lakewood Drive. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Hebron | - | Rapidly rising water prompted evacuations in the Greenbrier Village Mobile Home Park. |
| March 2012 | Flood | Hebron | - | High water remained across several roads from earlier flash flooding caused by heavy rain in the area. |
| September 1994 | Hail | Hebron | - | ,,,,,,,,Lightning Winds of 60 mph were reported in Newark. Large hail fell in Hebron where lightning killed a 46-year-old man as he attempted to untie a dog from under a tree to get it to shelter from the hail storm. A 33-year-old woman at the scene was also struck and injured. The dog was unharmed. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Hebron | - | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Hebron | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Hebron | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Hebron | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hebron | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow (historical) | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Canyon Villa Estates | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Luray | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Har-Win Acres | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Buckeye Lake | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Pinecrest Estates | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Sandstone Canyon | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Hollywood by the Lake | 2.6 miles | 11 |
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 Hebron | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1592869 | 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 1041450. 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.