Rutland, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Rutland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45775. It stands on Little Leading Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rutland quadrangle. 427 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRutland grew from 393 to 427 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 | 393 | |
| 2020 | 427 | +34 (+9%) |
Then and now
1907 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 73 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.
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
18 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rutland between 2013 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15262 |
| 17 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1061 |
| 22 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4445 |
| 19 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 279 shownMuseums hold 279 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rutland between 1840 and 1973: 237 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Charles M. Roberts, Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Ruellia humilis Nutt. | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Asplenium trichomanes L. | 1840 | Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard | Meigs County, Ohio |
![]() | Jungermannia sullivantii Austin | 1844 | W. S. Sullivant | In woods pasture pond 30 rods south of my [W.S. Sullivant's] garden |
![]() | Carex communis var. communis | 1862 | W. M. Canby | Cheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.] |
![]() | Trichostrongylus Looss, 1905 | 1906 | E. Stevenson | Clifton |
![]() | Bunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808) | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter |
| Heterakidae | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter | |
| Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923) | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter | |
![]() | Oesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 1890 | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter |
![]() | Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl. | 1916 | Nixon, E. L. | Pomeroy |
All 279 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
15 since 1995The National Weather Service names Rutland in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Lightning | Rutland | $20,000 | One business had major damage from a fire ignited by lightning. |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Rutland | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Rutland | $5,000 | Streams flooded from the Wolfpen region along Thomas Fork to Little Leading Creek around Rutland. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutland | $5,000 | Trees were uprooted and large branches fell across power lines. No major structural damage was reported. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Rutland | $4,000 | Leading Creek rose out of its banks leading to flooding along Lasher Road and Davidson Road near the community of Rutland. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Rutland | $2,000 | Thomas Fork flooded, closing a section of State Route 143 near State Route 7. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutland | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down in southern Meigs County along a line from Scipio Township to Racine. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutland | $2,000 | Scattered locations had trees blown down across secondary roads. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutland | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Flash Flood | Rutland | $1,000 | Flooding caused the closure of State Route 124 between Routes 7 and 352. State Route 143 was closed between Routes 7 and 684, and State Route 681 was close between US 33 and State Route 684. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutland | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down near Rutland. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutland | $1,000 | Fallen trees disrupted electrical service |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rutland | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Rutland | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Rutland | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lima | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Langsville | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Wolfpen | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Thomas Village | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Bradbury | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Buckhorn (historical) | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Horner Hill | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Lincoln Heights | 4.5 miles | 14 |
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 Rutland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673156 | 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 1049143. 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.






















