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

Laurelville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43135. It stands on Laurel Run. The Survey maps it on the Laurelville quadrangle. 512 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Laurelville within Hocking County

Population over time

2 figures

Laurelville fell from 527 to 512 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	527
2020	512	-15 (-3%)

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Laurelville, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Laurelville, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

11 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Laurelville between 2013 and 2020, burning about 26 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 burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
24 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1024
1 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 March 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15489
31 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 March 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11065
12 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11231

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 911 shown

Museums hold 911 specimens collected within 10 miles of Laurelville between 1911 and 1975: 690 Animalia, 154 Plantae, 65 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. L. Welden, A. R. Gaufin, A. White (from N. Rubenstein-OSU) 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
Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1911	Bales, B. R.	1 mi W of South Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
Eratoneura hartii (Gillette, 1898)	1915	Dwight Moore DeLong
Cladina arbuscula (Wallr.) Hale & W.L.Culb.	1918	Bruce Fink	Cantwell Cliffs
Pertusaria communis DC.	1918	Bruce Fink	Cantwell Cliffs
Plagiochila austinii A.Evans	1921	B. Taylor	Cantwell Cliffs, ravine below falls
Anthoceros punctatus L.	1923	Mrs. B. R. Taylor	Queer Creek
Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1927	MB Trautman	Salt Creek
Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.)	Salt Creek Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio

All 911 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

30 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Laurelville in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 flood, 4 hail, 4 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$100,000	Some homes and businesses sustained roof and siding damage. Numerous trees were also snapped and uprooted and a tractor trailer was flipped on its side.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Laurelville	$70,000	Several evacuations occurred, vehicles were washed off of roadways, and roads were closed due to flash flooding.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$50,000	Hundreds of trees were downed of which many fell across power lines. Sixteen telephone poles were broken during the storm.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$20,000	Multiple trees and power lines were downed in Laurelville and other portions of southwestern Hocking County due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$20,000	Several trees and power poles were downed. A tree fell on a house on Burns Road causing minor damage.
April 2000	Flash Flood	Laurelville	$10,000	Heavy rain caused Salt Creek to overflow its banks just south of Laurelville. The creek flooded several miles of State Route 56.
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$10,000	Trees knocked down in several locations across the county.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$5,000	Numerous trees were knocked down throughout the county, including in Laurelville.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$5,000	A tree fell onto a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$4,000	Trees were downed in Hocking Hills State Park.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$3,000	Several trees were downed, including a large one that fell near the intersection of Bailor and Union Roads.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$3,000	Several trees were downed.
December 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$2,000	A couple of trees were knocked down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$2,000	Numerous trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurelville	$250	Several large tree limbs were downed along State Route 327.
March 2026	Flood	Laurelville	-	State Route 56 had high water over multiple locations including near Creamery Hill Road as well as near Big Pine Road.
July 2025	Flood	Laurelville	-	Overland flooding was reported outside of Laurelville with standing water covering fields.
July 2025	Flood	Laurelville	-	Standing water surrounded the outbuildings between Salt Creek and Victory Drive.
March 2023	Flood	Laurelville	-	Several roads were closed due to high water across southern portions of the county.
February 2022	Flood	Laurelville	-	Water Street was closed in both directions due to high water.
August 2022	Flood	Laurelville	-	High water was reported along State Route 180 between Laurelville and Union Road.
February 2018	Flood	Laurelville	-	State Route 56 was closed due to high water across parts of the county.
March 2017	Flash Flood	Laurelville	-	Several roads were closed due to very high water flowing across them.
March 2017	Flood	Laurelville	-	Flooding was reported along Salt Creek just west of Laurelville.
May 2001	Flash Flood	Laurelville	-	Roads flooded
April 2020	Hail	Laurelville	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Laurelville	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Laurelville	-	no account filed
September 1994	Hail	Laurelville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hocking 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
South Perry	4.0 miles	15
Haynes	4.2 miles	15
Apple	5.2 miles	15
Buena Vista	6.4 miles	13
Reeds (historical)	6.5 miles	15
Mound Crossing	6.6 miles	13
Rockhouse (historical)	6.7 miles	15
Nancy (historical)	7.1 miles	15

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 Laurelville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668690	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 1064974. 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.