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Lansing, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pease Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43912. It lies in Soaptown Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Lansing quadrangle. 596 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Lansing within Belmont County

Population over time

2 figures

Lansing fell from 634 to 596 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
2010634
2020596-38 (-6%)

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lansing, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lansing, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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.

In the county-history sources

11,634 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Pease Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Pease Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Lansing between 1994 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning13
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 April 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryWV RT. 2
17 April 2019Debris and open burning1.1 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15159
13 April 2018Arson/incendiarism11 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryNORTH PARK
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12065
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15448
24 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7949
27 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11238
27 February 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12045

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,248 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,248 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lansing between 1800 and 1975: 1,037 Plantae, 117 Fungi, 92 Animalia, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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 Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829Racodium E.M.Fries, 18291829J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 17631839J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Dysodia oculatana Clemens, 1860Dysodia oculatana Clemens, 18601975not recorded
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1800Guttenberg, G.near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Robinia L., not of this specimenRobinia L.1829Guttenberg, G.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Persicaria virginiana, not of this specimenPersicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.1835E. WilkinsonOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1837B. FrankOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sullivantii, not of this specimenCarex × sullivantii Boott1842W. S. SullivantOhio
A photograph of the species Homalothecium subcapillatum, not of this specimenHomalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull.1843D. Sullivan
A photograph of the species Euphorbia maculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia maculata L.1844S. B. MeadOhio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Carex gracilescens, not of this specimenCarex gracilescens Steud.1847G. B. AshcroftOhio

All 1,248 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lansing: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Iron, Bituminous, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ayers Limestone Quarry,Inc.Bituminous, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wheeling-Pgh/ Martins Ferry, OhioIronUnknown
Ayers Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Benwood PlantLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Belmont County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lansing in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindLansing-A local 911 Call Center reported trees and power lines down.

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Wolfhurst0.6 miles18
Wheeling Creek0.8 miles18
Presidential Estates0.9 miles18
Boydsville1.5 miles18
Blaine1.5 miles18
Brookside1.6 miles18
Sunset Heights1.7 miles18
Lombardy Heights2.6 miles27

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 LansingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473003The 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 1064969. 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.

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.