Palestine, Ohio

Palestine fell from 200 to 180 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 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1953 1986

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.

• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Greenville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Greenville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Greenville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Palestine between 2002 and 2002, burning about 1 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:

• Baker
• Beechgrove
• Clark
• Fort Jefferson
• Glen Karn
• Hewitt

Every fire recorded in Darke County

Museums hold 446 specimens collected within 10 miles of Palestine between 1895 and 1975: 418 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, A. F. C.; Stover, W. G., Albrecht, C. 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
	Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)	1942	[Not Stated]	Greenville Creek, 2-6 miles southeast of Union City
	Argia fumipennis violacea (Hagen, 1861)	1969	B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward	Baker's Motel, near Norwick
	Dispira americana Thaxt.	1895	Rush W. H.	Greenville
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1905	Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)	Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township
	Etheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 1888	1905	Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)	Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township
	Clitocybe multiceps Peck	1906	H.J. Brememan	Greenville
	Peziza vesiculosa Bull.	1907	Lucas, C	Greenville
	Amanita phalloides (Vaill. ex Fr.) Secr.	1909	A. F. C.; Stover, W. G.	Greenville
	Clitocybe odora (Bull.) P.Kumm.	1909	Stover, W. G.	Greenville
	Panaeolus solidipes (Peck) Sacc.	1909	Stover, W. G.	Greenville
	Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	N/A
	Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1915	Householder, V.	N/A

All 446 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Palestine: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 Darke County

The National Weather Service names Palestine in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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 Darke 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 1049054. 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.