Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Orrville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Baughman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44667. The Survey maps it on the Orrville quadrangle. 8,452 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Orrville within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Orrville grew from 8,380 to 8,452 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	8,380
2020	8,452	+72 (+1%)

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Orrville, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Orrville, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Fires nearby

2 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Orrville between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
1 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,035 shown

Museums hold 2,035 specimens collected within 10 miles of Orrville between 1877 and 1975: 1,655 Animalia, 193 Plantae, 148 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)	1930	B. Montgomery & J. Houser	2 miles northeast of Wooster
Aster ciliolatus Lindl.	1877	Thorne, B.H.	Station Farm, Wooster
Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City
Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City
Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in)
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1883	Sterki, Victor	Burton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
Chelidon Forster, 1817	1889	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster

All 2,035 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Orrville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Orrville Tile Co Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms nearby

23 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Orrville in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2024	Flash Flood	Orrville	$250,000	Reports of multiple basements flooded and street flooding with stranded vehicles in Orrville.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed at least 16 trees and many large limbs in the Orville area. One home had a window blown out as well. Scattered power outages were reported.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$35,000	A large tree was blown down by strong thunderstorm winds. The tree landed on a home and caused significant roof and structural damage.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Orrville	$25,000	House flooding on Jefferson Street in Orrville, two residents were trapped requiring rescue.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed up to two dozen trees and snapped six power poles two miles south of Dalton. One of the fallen trees destroyed a garage and a second damaged a house.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Orrville	$10,000	Car stranded in flooded roadway on Pine Street in Orrville, requiring water rescue.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$8,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds tore some siding off of a residence.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in Orrville.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$5,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$4,000	Two trees were reported down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$3,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$2,000	A few large limbs and power lines were reported down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$2,000	Several trees were downed.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and some large limbs.
August 2013	Hail	Orrville	$1,000	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail 1 mile north of Orrville.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Orrville	-	There were several trees on power lines.
May 2014	Hail	Orrville	-	Hail as large as quarters covered the ground.
May 2012	Hail	Orrville	-	Nickel sized hail was observed.
May 2011	Hail	Orrville	-	Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail.
July 2005	Hail	Orrville	-	Penny size hail was observed.
August 2003	Hail	Orrville	-	Quarter size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Auburn Estates	1.1 miles	15
Little Chippewa Estates	1.6 miles	15
Paradise (historical)	3.0 miles	15
Whispering Pines Estates	3.1 miles	15
Burton City	3.2 miles	17
Riceland	3.3 miles	15
McQuaid (historical)	3.4 miles	17
Marshall Estates	3.9 miles	17

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 Orrville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q935692	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 1065216. 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.