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.
Population over time
2 figuresJacksonville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 481 | |
| 2020 | 400 | -81 (-17%) |
Then and now
1903 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 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.
- 1903 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
46 since 2006The 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 burning | 23 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LITTLE |
| 9 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 329 BRAVO |
| 3 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | BIG BAILEY |
| 6 May 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | OLD 78 FIRE |
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7809 |
| 6 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15648 |
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LAKE ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 217 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813 | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Athens County |
![]() | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1908 | A. D. Selby | Sharpsburg |
![]() | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Colletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson | 1918 | Selby A. D. | Athens Co. |
![]() | Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger | 1919 | L. Bonar | Glouster |
![]() | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Hicks, 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 2003The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Jacksonville | $25,000 | Creeks flooded and closed roads, including Kasler Creek. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Jacksonville | $10,000 | The 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 2020 | Flood | Jacksonville | $6,000 | State 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $3,000 | Multiple trees were blown down along North Concord Road. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville | $1,500 | Several trees were blown down near the intersection of Monserat Ridge Road and Millfield Road near the Jacksonville township. |
| March 2026 | Flood | Jacksonville | - | Jacksonville Road was closed between Dover Township Road 583 and Wemmer Road due to flooding. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Jacksonville | - | 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.
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 Jacksonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2001207 | 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 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.






























