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Jerusalem, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Sunsbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43747. The Survey maps it on the Woodsfield quadrangle. 121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,263 feet above sea level.

Jerusalem within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Jerusalem fell from 161 to 121 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
2010161
2020121-40 (-25%)

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jerusalem, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Jerusalem, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

10 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Jerusalem between 2014 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 2 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 burning5
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5545
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15819
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12585
26 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4846
22 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4607
17 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4814
30 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources779
22 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 341 shown

Museums hold 341 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jerusalem between 1914 and 1975: 332 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Herbert R. MooneyWoodsfield
Specimen of Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863Bombus affinis Cresson, 18631968L. Macior[Not Stated]
unnamed (fossil)1914Collector UnknownWoodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1921Ortmann, Arnold EWoodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1922Thompson W. H.Woodsfield
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
A photograph of the species Hybopsis micropogon, not of this specimenHybopsis micropogon (Cope, 1865)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
A photograph of the species Natrix septemvittata, not of this specimenNatrix septemvittata (Say, 1825)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Washington Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Natrix sipedon, not of this specimenNatrix sipedon sipedon1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Clarington, Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana catesbeiana, not of this specimenRana catesbeiana Shaw, 18021929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Washington Twp.: Little Muskingum River, Monroe Co., Ohio

All 341 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

8 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Jerusalem in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2003Thunderstorm WindJerusalem$1,000Trees down.
March 2024Funnel CloudJerusalem-The Belmont County EMA reported a funnel cloud near the town of Jerusalem.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJerusalem-Wind damage reported.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindJerusalem-Public reported large tree down.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindJerusalem-A 911 Call Center reported several trees down.
June 2013HailJerusalem-no account filed
May 2004HailJerusalem-no account filed
April 2002HailJerusalem-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Wilson1.4 miles14
Ozark1.8 miles14
Beallsville3.0 miles14
Malaga3.0 miles13
Miltonsburg4.1 miles13
Hope Ridge (historical)4.5 miles14
Coats5.2 miles14
Kerr5.7 miles13

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 JerusalemAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2398662The 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 1076143. 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.