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

Lewistown, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43333. It stands on Rennick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Russells Point quadrangle. 202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Lewistown within Logan County

Population over time

3 figures

Lewistown fell from 693 to 202 between 2000 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
2000693
2010222-471 (-68%)
2020202-20 (-9%)

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lewistown, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Lewistown, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 591 shown

Museums hold 591 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lewistown between 1862 and 1975: 531 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Schwartz, A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Polygonatum verticillatum (L.) All.Polygonatum verticillatum (L.) All.1911Errard P.Bellefontaine
Specimen of Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)1930E. Williamson & et al.[Not Stated]
Specimen of Hypoxylon coccineum Bull.Hypoxylon coccineum Bull.1940Phinney, Harry KenyonEast fork of Little Miami River
A photograph of the species Carex buxbaumii, not of this specimenCarex buxbaumii Wahlenb.1862W. M. CanbyBelfontaine.
A photograph of the species Nasturtium officinale, not of this specimenNasturtium officinale R.Br.1862W. M. CanbyBellefontaine
A photograph of the species Protographium marcellus, not of this specimenProtographium marcellus (Cramer, 1777)1869not recordedBellefontaine
A photograph of the species Otus asio, not of this specimenOtus asio naevius (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1874Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Trautman, M. A. (Mary Auten)Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Solenostoma crenuliforme, not of this specimenSolenostoma crenuliforme (Austin) Steph.1877not recorded
A photograph of the species Gallinago delicata, not of this specimenGallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)1889McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Gallinago gallinago, not of this specimenGallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)1889McCormick, L. M.Beaver Creek, Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica virens, not of this specimenDendroica virens virens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1891McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lampropeltis triangulum, not of this specimenLampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)1893not recordedLogan Co., Ohio

All 591 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lewistown: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Duff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Duff Sand Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms nearby

5 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Lewistown in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 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
October 1999Thunderstorm WindLewistown$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees. Trees were also knocked down near Lakeview and East Liberty.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindLewistown$2,000Two large oak trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLewistown-The spotter estimated the wind gust.
May 2025HailLewistown-no account filed
April 2001HailLewistown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Mount Tabor (historical)2.4 miles16
McMorran3.0 miles16
Bloom Center3.2 miles16
Russells Point3.4 miles16
Muchinippi (historical)3.4 miles16
Orchard Island4.0 miles16
Huntsville4.5 miles16
Lakeview4.8 miles16

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 LewistownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1006221The 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 1064991. 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.

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.