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Jacksonville, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Trimble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45732. It stands on Congress Run. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle. 400 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Jacksonville within Athens County

Population over time

2 figures

Jacksonville fell from 481 to 400 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
2010481
2020400-81 (-17%)

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jacksonville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Jacksonville, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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

46 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning23
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
26 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestLITTLE
9 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest329 BRAVO
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWayne National ForestBIG BAILEY
6 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestOLD 78 FIRE
9 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7809
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15648
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestLAKE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 217 shown

Museums hold 217 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jacksonville between 1896 and 1975: 131 Animalia, 60 Plantae, 23 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, A.D. Selby 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 Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131896F. L. StevensAthens County
A photograph of the species Sporobolus vaginiflorus, not of this specimenSporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood1898Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1908A. D. SelbySharpsburg
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631916not recorded
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1918Selby A. D.Athens Co.
A photograph of the species Uromyces appendiculatus, not of this specimenUromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger1919L. BonarGlouster
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 19561929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio

All 217 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 2003

The National Weather Service names Jacksonville in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Flash FloodJacksonville$25,000Creeks flooded and closed roads, including Kasler Creek.
August 2011Flash FloodJacksonville$10,000The small feeder streams into Sunday Creek and Federal Creek overflowed causing minor street flooding. Sunday Creek rose 8 to 10 feet but remained mostly within its banks. Route 33 in Nelsonville was flooded.
May 2020FloodJacksonville$6,000State Road 550 was closed on the morning of the 20th in Amesville due to flooding, and remained shut down into the afternoon and evening due to additional rounds of rain. Near the town of Sharpsburg, US Route 377 was flooded and impassable in both directions. State Road 550 near Lathrop Road in the town of Lathrop was also closed in both directions due to flooding.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJacksonville$3,000Multiple trees were blown down along North Concord Road.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindJacksonville$1,500Several trees were blown down near the intersection of Monserat Ridge Road and Millfield Road near the Jacksonville township.
March 2026FloodJacksonville-Jacksonville Road was closed between Dover Township Road 583 and Wemmer Road due to flooding.
May 2003HailJacksonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Trimble0.7 miles19
Redtown0.9 miles19
Olbers1.6 miles19
Greens Run1.8 miles19
Glouster1.9 miles14
Truetown2.2 miles19
Derthick2.3 miles19
Modoc2.6 miles21

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 JacksonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2001207The 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 1076135. 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.