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Kirkersville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43033. It stands on Slim Creek. The Survey maps it on the Millersport quadrangle. 471 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Kirkersville within Licking County

Population over time

2 figures

Kirkersville fell from 525 to 471 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
2010525
2020471-54 (-10%)

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kirkersville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Kirkersville, surveyed 1907

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

8 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Kirkersville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 31 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15770
28 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15730
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15708
15 April 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15709
1 March 2009Debris and open burning4.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15969
4 October 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15838

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,896 shown

Museums hold 1,896 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kirkersville between 1843 and 1975: 1,604 Animalia, 221 Fungi, 44 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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 Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581884F. S. Robinson
Specimen of Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822Cylindrosporium Grev., 18221893unknownLicking Reservoir
Specimen of Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
A photograph of the species Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypnum paludosum, not of this specimenHypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Philomachus pugnax, not of this specimenPhilomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Jasper, T. (Theodore)Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Limosa fedoa, not of this specimenLimosa fedoa (Linnaeus, 1758)1881not recordedBuckeye Lake, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Caeoma podophyllatum, not of this specimenCaeoma podophyllatum Schwein.1890not recordedGranville
A photograph of the species Puccinia seymeriae, not of this specimenPuccinia seymeriae Burrill1890not recordedAlexandria
A photograph of the species Aecidium impatientis, not of this specimenAecidium impatientis Sacc.1893not recordedGranville
A photograph of the species Arcyria denudata, not of this specimenArcyria denudata (L.) Wettst., 18861893Jones, H.L.Granville, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Hemitrichia stipitata, not of this specimenHemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 18991893Morgan, A. P.Granville, O.

All 1,896 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Kirkersville in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2011Thunderstorm WindKirkersville$3,000A few trees and power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindKirkersville$250Several large limbs were downed.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindKirkersville-The wind gust was estimated.
July 2006HailKirkersville-no account filed
July 1997HailKirkersville-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wooded Hills1.6 miles11
Outville2.5 miles11
Sunshine Park2.7 miles11
Happy Homes2.9 miles11
Har-Win Acres3.4 miles11
Luray3.4 miles11
Pinecrest Estates4.1 miles11
Canyon Villa Estates4.5 miles11

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 KirkersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668694The 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 1056381. 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.