Lawrenceville, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in German Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45504. The Survey maps it on the Donnelsville quadrangle. 667 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Donnelsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Donnelsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Donnelsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Donnelsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
9,092 words on this townshipIllustrated Historical Atlas of Clark County, Ohio, published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on German Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Congress Innds were surveyed into sections, and men of no grent wealth were able to buy from one to several sections by paying down the quarter price, half adollar per acre. 'The earliest settlers enme from Virginia, and later from both Virginia and Kentucky. The civil war was heard of in sorrow, and the advance of hostile armies laying waste their former homes cnused teurs to fall and spirits to droop.
Passage source: Illustrated Historical Atlas of Clark County, Ohio, published 1875.
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 German Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.
Fires near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lawrenceville between 2002 and 2002, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 October 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 628 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 628 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lawrenceville between 1840 and 1975: 367 Animalia, 213 Plantae, 44 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 73.7; J.H., A. Barron, A. N. Leeds 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cystopteris protrusa (Weath.) Blasdell | 1878 | Beardslee, H.C. | near Springfield |
![]() | Urocystis colchici (Schltdl.) Rabenh. | 1916 | W.G. Stover; E.C. Leonard | near Springfield |
![]() | Ustilago heufleri Fuckel | 1917 | E.R. Leonard | |
![]() | Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx. | 1840 | Williams, M.G. | Springfield |
![]() | Staphylea trifolia L. | 1840 | Williams, M.G. | Springfield |
![]() | Funaria hygrometrica Hedw. | 1846 | not recorded | Springfield |
![]() | Bryhnia graminicolor (Brid.) Grout | 1870 | J. W. Eckfeldt | near Springfield |
![]() | Bryum pseudotriquetrum var. bimum (Schreb.) Lilj. | 1870 | J. W. Eckfeldt | Springfield |
![]() | Hygroamblystegium tenax subsp. orthocladon (P.Beauv.) Wijk & Margad. | 1870 | J. W. Eckfeldt | Springfield |
![]() | Schwetschkeopsis denticulata (Sull.) Broth. | 1870 | J. W. Eckfeldt | Springfield |
![]() | Amblystegium serpens var. angustifolium H.Lindb. ex Limpr. | 1871 | H. J. Biddlecome | Springfield |
![]() | Asterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv. | 1871 | Hannah J. Biddlecome | Springfield |
All 628 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lawrenceville: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| County Line Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| County Line Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Eagle City Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Eagle City Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Smith Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Smith Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawrenceville in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawrenceville | $20,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawrenceville | $8,000 | Trees and power lines were knocked down in the German Township area. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawrenceville | $5,000 | The public reported damage to a barn on Johnson Road. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawrenceville | $5,000 | There was scattered home damage throughout the neighborhood, including a shed flipped over and lawn furniture thrown around. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawrenceville | $3,000 | Playground equipment was knocked into a parked vehicle. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawrenceville | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down onto Shrine Road. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Lawrenceville | - | High water was reported near the intersection of Shrine Road and Miller Road. |
| November 2017 | Flash Flood | Lawrenceville | - | Flash flooding was reported at the Springfield Meadows mobile home park. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lawrenceville | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Lawrenceville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balentine Acres | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Westridge | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Upper Fox Hollow | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Jacksonville | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Eagle City | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Bryar | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Windy Acres | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Cedar Hills | 2.8 miles | 14 |
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 Lawrenceville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2077369 | 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 1064975. 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.

























