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Mount Vernon, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Mount Vernon City. It lies in ZIP code area 43050. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 16,956 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMount Vernon fell from 16,990 to 16,956 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 | 16,990 | |
| 2020 | 16,956 | -34 (-0%) |
Then and now
1912 to 1966The same ground, surveyed 54 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.
- 1912 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 713 shownMuseums hold 713 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Vernon between 1837 and 1975: 652 Animalia, 37 Fungi, 23 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, A. P. Morgan, Andriessen, H. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Fusicladium Bonord. | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann | |
 | Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke | 1883 | Dr. W.A. Kellerman | |
 | Pestalotia De Not., 1841 | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann | No locality on label |
 | Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1837 | Müller | Ohio |
 | Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1863 | Turati (comte), Ercole | |
 | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1877 | not recorded | unspecified |
 | Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812) | 1879 | Willard L. Maris | |
 | Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1879 | Porter, J.B. | |
 | Lobelia inflata L. | 1881 | Andriessen, H. | near Fredericktown, OH |
 | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1883 | Kellerman | |
 | Phyllosticta lappae Sacc. | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann | |
 | Phyllosticta persicae Sacc. | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann |
All 713 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
4 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mount Vernon: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodwin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Purdy Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Purdy Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
2 since 1995The National Weather Service names Mount Vernon in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mount Vernon | 1 hurt, $700,000 | A downburst with winds as high as 90 mph downed hundreds of trees, some on structures and vehicles. Signs were blown down and some windows were broken and minor roof damage occurred to several buildings. A dog was electrocuted when a live power line fell onto the dogbox. A man was injured by a falling tree limb and another man, sleeping in his bedroom, escaped injury when a large limb crashed through his ceiling missing him by inches. Three state highways where closed until storm debris could be removed, one for over 24 hours. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Mount Vernon | - | Large hail fell. A 41-year-old man was struck by lightning while working inside his new home which was under construction. The house appears to have been struck first and the charge passed through the man causing minor burns. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Mount Vernon | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| North Mount Vernon | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Fleaville (historical) | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Buckingham Court | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Vaughan Court | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Clinton (historical) | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Academia | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Bangs | 4.5 miles | 10 |
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 Mount Vernon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q998575 | 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 1056436. 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.