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Lore City, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43755. It stands on Infirmary Run. The Survey maps it on the Senecaville quadrangle. 282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Lore City within Guernsey County

Population over time

2 figures

Lore City fell from 325 to 282 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
2010325
2020282-43 (-13%)

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lore City, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lore City, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

4,881 words on this township

Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895 names this settlement in its chapter on Wills Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Lore City is midway between Washington and Senecaville. With the growing population that gathered at that point, a demand came for the preaching of the Gospel, and for the building of a hoiise of worship. A beautiful little church was erected by the liberality of the people in the neighboring congregations, and an organization was effected June 6, 1884, with forty-seven members. These came, for the most part, by dismissals from the churches of Washington and Senecaville. The Elders at the organization were: Hugh Brown, J.

Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895.

Rev. Newton Donaldson, then a student in the Western Theological Seminary, came as a candidate before the ciiurch in the fall of 1882. A call was soon made for his services, which was accepted, and at the close of the seminary year he entered regularly upon his labors. He was ordained and installed June 1, 1883. One year previous to this the church of Lore City was organized at Campbell's Station, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, composed mainly of members from Washington and Senecavillc. Rev. Mr. Donaldson took charge of the three churclies of Washington, Lore City and Senecavillc. He was greatly prospered in this field of labor, and spent nearlj' five years in very earnest work. His dismissal took place November 1, 1887, and he removed to Bellcvue Church, in the Presbytery of Alleghany.

Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895.

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 Wills Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

29 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Lore City between 2009 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8805
20 September 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16076
16 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1862
21 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5205
12 July 2016Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5165
28 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 208 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 208 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lore City between 1875 and 1975: 118 Animalia, 82 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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 Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.1902F.O. GroverBlack Swamp
Specimen of Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 18211916not recorded
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916not recorded
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Enslenia albida, not of this specimenEnslenia albida Nutt.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Impatiens pallida, not of this specimenImpatiens pallida Nutt.1875Lloyd, Curtis GatesFairmont
A photograph of the species Valsa nivea, not of this specimenValsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.1906Wilson C. B.Oberlin near Black Swamp
A photograph of the species Dothiorella Sacc., not of this specimenDothiorella Sacc., 18801910Dawson W.Byesville
A photograph of the species Taphrina caerulescens, not of this specimenTaphrina caerulescens (Desm. & Mont.) Tul.1912Bartenstein T. E.Warrentown
A photograph of the species Isoetes muricata, not of this specimenIsoetes muricata Durieu1913L. S. Hazel M, D.D. HopkinsBrady's Lake.
Apidae1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Apis mellifera, not of this specimenApis mellifera Linnaeus, 17581916not recorded

All 208 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lore City in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 flash flood, 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLore City$10,000Trees were blown down in Lore City.
March 2017FloodLore City$10,000Department of highways reported that state route 285 was closed in both directions between Old Glory Road and state route 265.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLore City$5,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
April 2015Flash FloodLore City$5,000Law enforcement reported the intersection of SR 265 and SR 285 closed due to flash flooding.
April 2011FloodLore City$5,000State Route 285 was reported closed due to flooding.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLore City$5,000Trees and power lines blown down by wind.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLore City$2,000A tree was reported down along State Route 265 east of Lore City.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLore City$1,500A trained spotter reported shingle/roof damage to Buckeye Trail High School.
April 2024FloodLore City$1,000Reports of flooded fields and streams out of their banks near Lore City, OH.
January 2024FloodLore City-State Route 285 at Leatherwood Road was closed due to flooding.
February 2000Flash FloodLore City-Minor flooding was reported along SR 265 and SR 285.
May 2018HailLore City-no account filed
June 2013HailLore City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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
Blacktop1.4 miles13
Kings Mine1.4 miles13
Kipling2.4 miles14
Gibson2.5 miles13
New Gottingen3.4 miles13
Senecaville3.5 miles13
Robins3.5 miles14
Duch Addition3.7 miles13

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 Lore CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668672The 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 1057817. 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.