Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Johnstown, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43031. It stands on Kiber Run. The Survey maps it on the Johnstown quadrangle. 5,182 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Johnstown within Licking County

Population over time

2 figures

Johnstown grew from 4,632 to 5,182 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	4,632
2020	5,182	+550 (+12%)

Then and now

1908 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Johnstown, surveyed 1966

Topographic sheet of Johnstown, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

1 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Johnstown between 2009 and 2009, burning about 1 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
1 January 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,198 shown

Museums hold 1,198 specimens collected within 10 miles of Johnstown between 1881 and 1975: 1,154 Animalia, 35 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. P. Morgan; Ellis, A. R. Elliott 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke	1896	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.	1896	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.	1896	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1863	not recorded	USA, NNO-, OHIO*, GHOTA RIVER ,
Melanitta nigra americana (Swainson, 1832)	1881	not recorded	Ohio, USA
Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Ohio, USA
Picoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1886	not recorded	Ohio, USA
Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1888	not recorded	Ohio, USA
Erigeron strigosus Muhl. ex Willd.	1888	E. Barrick	Fredonia
Solanum emulans Raf.	1888	E. Barrick	Fredonia
Puccinia seymeriae Burrill	1890	not recorded	Alexandria
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	N. G. Buxton	Johnstown

All 1,198 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

30 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Johnstown in 30 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 2 deaths and 4 injuries. 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
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	2 killed, 4 hurt, $110,000	A microburst hit an egg facility causing the collapse of three large barns and damaging another. This resulted in the fatalities of two men working in one of the collapsed structures. A large rooftop air conditioning unit was also pushed off the roof of an adjacent administrative building. Around the area there were several trees down and numerous broken limbs. In addition to the fatalities, four injuries were also reported.
September 2000	Tornado (F2)	Johnstown	$1,000,000	A tornado tracked out of Delaware county across the northwestern part of the county and then continued into Knox county. The storm lifted briefly in spots but maintained a 25 mile track across the three counties, mainly in rural areas. Eleven homes received major damage and 4 received minor damage. Several barns and outbuildings were also destroyed. Twelve buildings at the Buckeye Egg Company were destroyed, trapping one million chickens inside.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$50,000	Numerous trees were downed and two roofs were removed from houses due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$40,000	Structural damage to one house in Monroe Township near Johnstown.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$8,000	A few large trees and power poles were downed near U.S. 62 and Miller Church Road.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$5,000	Multiple six inch diameter trees were knocked down. Several homes also had siding blown off.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$5,000	Numerous trees were downed near Duncan Plains Road due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$5,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in town. Some of these were blown down on houses along Kasson Street.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$5,000	Trees were downed on Oregon Street in Johnstown, and near the intersection of State Route 661 and Homer Road.
December 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$4,000	Roof damage occurred to a home, along with a few trees being knocked down.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$3,000	A few trees and power lines were downed.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$3,000	Several trees were downed throughout Johnstown.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$3,000	Several trees and power lines were downed.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$3,000	Several trees were knocked down in and around town.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$2,000	A ten inch diameter tree was downed.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$1,000	Several large limbs were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$1,000	Large branches were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Johnstown	-	High water was reported over a few roads in town.
July 2017	Flood	Johnstown	-	High water was reported in several locations along Mink Road.
August 2015	Heavy Rain	Johnstown	-	High water was reported on Route 62 in Johnstown.
April 2024	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed
November 2002	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Concord	2.6 miles	11
Millers Corners	3.1 miles	10
Green (historical)	3.6 miles	11
Tylers Corners	4.2 miles	10
Appleton	5.3 miles	11
Panhandle Corners	5.3 miles	10
Decrow Corners	5.3 miles	11
Croton	5.9 miles	11

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 Johnstown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666471	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 1048875. 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.