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Rayland, Ohio

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Warren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43943. It stands on Williamson Run. The Survey maps it on the Tiltonsville quadrangle. 395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Rayland within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Rayland fell from 417 to 395 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.

YearPeople Change
2010417
2020395-22 (-5%)

Then and now

1902 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rayland, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Rayland, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

27 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

31 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Rayland between 1992 and 2019, burning about 74 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryGIRTYS RT RD
1 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryTOP OF HUKILLS RUN
2 May 1996Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryGREEN'S RUN
10 May 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBEECH BOTTOM
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBEED BOTTOM
3 April 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry49 HILL ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 216 shown

Museums hold 216 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rayland between 1877 and 1974: 165 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 22 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, Baer, C.H. Kennedy 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Betula lenta, not of this specimenBetula lenta L.1877Wertz, H.W.Buffalo Creek near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1877Guttenberg, H.G.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Polypodium virginianum, not of this specimenPolypodium virginianum L.1879J. M. CoulterCharlestown
A photograph of the species Ionaspis lacustris, not of this specimenIonaspis lacustris (With.) Lutzoni1893Calkins, W. W.Short Creek
Actinonema rosae (Lib.) Fr.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Coniothyrium fuckelii, not of this specimenConiothyrium fuckelii Sacc.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Graphiola phoenicis, not of this specimenGraphiola phoenicis (Moug. ex Fr.) Poit.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Guignardia bidwellii, not of this specimenGuignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1904Sheldon J. L.Wellsburg
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
Phyllosticta hortorum Speg.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
Phyllosticta limitata Peck1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg

All 216 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 Rayland: 1 producer. All of them 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dredge No. 16Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms nearby

7 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Rayland in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Thunderstorm WindRayland$5,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindRayland$5,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRayland$5,000Large trees and power lines blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindRayland$2,000Multiple trees were reported down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindRayland-Emergency management reported trees down along County Route two.
March 2007FloodRayland-Numerous roads closed due to flooding across the county.
April 2000Flash FloodRayland-Short Creek overflowed its banks from heavy thunderstorm rains, producing minor flooding along portions of County Road 1615 near Rayland.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Highland City0.3 miles27
Jackson Heights0.8 miles27
Warrenton0.9 miles27
Tiltonsville1.2 miles27
Connor1.2 miles27
Grandview Heights1.3 miles27
Connorville1.4 miles27
Upland Heights2.4 miles27

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 RaylandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2211600The 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 1049113. 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.