Highland, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45132. It stands on South Fork Lees Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg quadrangle. 232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHighland fell from 254 to 232 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 | 254 | |
| 2020 | 232 | -22 (-9%) |
Then and now
1917 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 69 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
12 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.
- 1917 USGS Sabina quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Sabina quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
2 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Fires nearby
3 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Highland between 2002 and 2006, burning about 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 2 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 November 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 335 shownMuseums hold 335 specimens collected within 10 miles of Highland between 1880 and 1973: 176 Animalia, 142 Fungi, 12 Protozoa, 4 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brown, H P, C. Triplehorn, Cavender, Horvath & Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Entyloma compositarum Farl. | 1894 | F. L. Stevens | Highland Falls. |
![]() | Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899 | 1922 | Cooke, William Bridge | Seven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary) |
![]() | Phyllachora puncta (Cooke) Cooke | 1939 | Cooke, William Bridge | Seven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary) |
![]() | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1880 | not recorded | Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America |
![]() | Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829) | 1881 | S.M. Taggert | Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America |
![]() | Notropis volucellus volucellus | 1926 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | water unknown, #1 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a |
![]() | Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877 | 1926 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | water unknown, #4 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a |
![]() | Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | water unknown, #6 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio |
![]() | Erythroneura calycula McAtee, 1920 | 1930 | Frederick W. Poos | |
![]() | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio |
![]() | Plethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 1938 | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio |
All 335 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Highland: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms nearby
9 since 1996The National Weather Service names Highland in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | $30,000 | A severe thunderstorm produces winds that knocked down several barns and destroyed numerous trees. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Highland | $5,000 | Golfball-size hail fell and some trees were knocked down by strong winds. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | $5,000 | Several trees downed. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | $4,000 | Trees and large branches were knocked down. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | $3,000 | Trees were downed in the town of Highland due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | $1,000 | A large tree was knocked down at OH-28 and Careytown Road. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Highland | - | Flowing water was reported over several locations along Route 72 North between Samantha and Highland. The road was impassable. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland | - | Two small trees were downed along State Route 28. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Highland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Station | 0.6 miles | 12 | |
| Leesburg | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Careytown | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Gist Settlement | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Fallsville (historical) | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Samantha | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Bridges | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| East Monroe | 5.3 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 Highland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981295 | 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 1064836. 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.
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.























