Jamestown, Ohio

Jamestown grew from 1,993 to 2,052 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.

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1916 1986

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.

• 1916 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 112 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jamestown between 1878 and 1974: 78 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 16 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Boone, Borror, D. J. (Donald J.), Brodo, Irwin M. 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
	Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.	1923	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	Clifton Gorge
	Mayetiola destructor (Say, 1817)	1878	not recorded
	Asplenium rhizophyllum L.	1899	Young, W.U.	"On limestone banks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
	Asplenium trichomanes L.	1899	Young, W.U.	"On limestone rocks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
	Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1899	Young, W.U.	"[Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
	Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray	1899	Young, W.U.
	Calopompilus Ashmead, 1900	1902	D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull
	Woodsia obtusa (Spreng.) Torr.	1908	L. S. Hopkins
	Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1910	Carter, J. B. (James B.)	Smith's Creek, Greene, Ohio, USA
	Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.	1912	Henry S. Jewett	Neff [House] Park
	Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Massies Creek, near Cedarville OH, Cedarville township
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Hazard, F. O. et al.	Clifton Gorge: near springs & edge of creek, Greene Co., Ohio

All 112 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jamestown: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Greene County

The National Weather Service names Jamestown in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Greene County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064900. 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.

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.