Malta, Ohio

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Malta fell from 671 to 559 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 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1994

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.

• 1910 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Malta between 2012 and 2018, burning about 16 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:

• McConnelsville
• Chaneyville (historical)
• Lovell
• Neelysville
• Pennsville
• Halls Valley (historical)

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Museums hold 454 specimens collected within 10 miles of Malta between 1887 and 1974: 343 Animalia, 102 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K. 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
	Cercis canadensis L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Gleditsia triacanthos L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Medicago lupulina L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.	1887	Morgan
	Leskea obscura Hedw.	1896	W. A. Kellerman
	Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)	1903	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)	1904	not recorded	Meigs Creek
	Merulius incarnatus Schwein.	1906	Collector unspecified	McConnellsville
	Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1911	B.R. Bales	Ringgold
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Ricker A. J.	MCCONNELSVILLE
	Ambystoma Tschudi, 1838	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	E. Br. of Sunday Cr., 10 mi NE of Glouster, Athens Co., Ohio
	Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915)	1927	F. N.	McConnelsville

All 454 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Malta: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Morgan County

The National Weather Service names Malta in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 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 Morgan 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 1042909. 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.