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.
Population over time
2 figuresLore 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 325 | |
| 2020 | 282 | -43 (-13%) |
Then and now
1909 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1909 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,881 words on this townshipPortrait 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 2009Regional 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8805 |
| 20 September 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16076 |
| 16 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1862 |
| 21 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5205 |
| 12 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5165 |
| 28 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 208 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis. | 1902 | F.O. Grover | Black Swamp |
![]() | Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1875 | s.c. | Fairmont |
![]() | Enslenia albida Nutt. | 1875 | s.c. | Fairmont |
![]() | Impatiens pallida Nutt. | 1875 | Lloyd, Curtis Gates | Fairmont |
![]() | Valsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr. | 1906 | Wilson C. B. | Oberlin near Black Swamp |
![]() | Dothiorella Sacc., 1880 | 1910 | Dawson W. | Byesville |
![]() | Taphrina caerulescens (Desm. & Mont.) Tul. | 1912 | Bartenstein T. E. | Warrentown |
![]() | Isoetes muricata Durieu | 1913 | L. S. Hazel M, D.D. Hopkins | Brady's Lake. |
| Apidae | 1916 | not recorded | ||
![]() | Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 | 1916 | not recorded |
All 208 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
13 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lore City | $10,000 | Trees were blown down in Lore City. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Lore City | $10,000 | Department of highways reported that state route 285 was closed in both directions between Old Glory Road and state route 265. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lore City | $5,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down. |
| April 2015 | Flash Flood | Lore City | $5,000 | Law enforcement reported the intersection of SR 265 and SR 285 closed due to flash flooding. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Lore City | $5,000 | State Route 285 was reported closed due to flooding. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lore City | $5,000 | Trees and power lines blown down by wind. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lore City | $2,000 | A tree was reported down along State Route 265 east of Lore City. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lore City | $1,500 | A trained spotter reported shingle/roof damage to Buckeye Trail High School. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Lore City | $1,000 | Reports of flooded fields and streams out of their banks near Lore City, OH. |
| January 2024 | Flood | Lore City | - | State Route 285 at Leatherwood Road was closed due to flooding. |
| February 2000 | Flash Flood | Lore City | - | Minor flooding was reported along SR 265 and SR 285. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Lore City | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Lore City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacktop | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Kings Mine | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Kipling | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Gibson | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| New Gottingen | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Senecaville | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Robins | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Duch Addition | 3.7 miles | 13 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2668672 | 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 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.























