Lithopolis, Ohio

Lithopolis grew from 1,106 to 2,134 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.

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1925 1984

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.

• 1925 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500
• 1925 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500
• 1925 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000

A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Bloom Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lithopolis between 2012 and 2012, burning about 25 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Canal Winchester
• Carroll
• Chester Heights
• Greencastle
• Harley
• Havensport

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 940 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lithopolis between 1882 and 1975: 848 Animalia, 59 Fungi, 33 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bowen, B., Braun, E. Lucy, Brzoska, D. 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
	Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur	1891	Freda Detmers	Rock Mill
	Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.	1892	W.A. Kellerman
	Trypethelium virens Tuck.	1898	Ernst E. Bogue
	Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.	1882	Kellerman W. A.	Fairfield Co.
	Microsphaera Lév.	1882	W. A. Kellerman
	Gnomonia sassafras Ellis & Everh.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
	Leptostroma vulgare Fr.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
	Leptostromataceae	1883	W. A. Kellermann
	Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	W. A. Kellerman
	Septoria E.M.Fries, 1819	1883	W. A. Kellerman
	Septoria polygonorum Desm.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
	Septoria westendorpii Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman

All 940 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lithopolis in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065008. 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.