Rockbridge, Ohio

Rockbridge fell from 182 to 160 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 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1992

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.

• 1907 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Rockbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rockbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rockbridge quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Rockbridge quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Rockbridge between 2003 and 2020, burning about 108 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:

• Pine Grove (historical)
• Enterprise
• Logan
• South Logan
• Webb Summit
• West Logan

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Museums hold 3,092 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rockbridge between 1839 and 1975: 2,192 Animalia, 550 Plantae, 301 Fungi, 32 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. L. Welden, A. N. Bragg, A. Schrader 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
	Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829	1890	Detmers, Freda	Sugar Grove
	Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1891	M. Craig	Sugar Grove
	Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter	1892	W.A. Kellerman
	Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
	Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.	1839	W. S. Sullivant
	Saxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
	Trillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
	Ricciocarpos natans (L.) Corda	1840	W. S. Sullivant
	Rudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle	1840	W. S. Sullivant
	Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv.	1841	not recorded
	Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs	1841	W. S. Sullivant
	Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1842	W. S. Sullivant

All 3,092 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Rockbridge in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 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 Hocking 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 1061623. 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.

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.