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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.

Rutland within Meigs County

Population over time

2 figures

Rutland 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.

YearPeople Change
2010393
2020427+34 (+9%)

Then and now

1907 to 1980

The 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 sheet of Rutland, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Rutland, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

18 since 2013

The 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15262
17 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1061
22 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4445
19 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 279 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) AlexanderOdontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander1963William G. Gambill Jr.
Specimen of Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) BarnhartRatibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart1963William G. Gambill Jr.
Specimen of Ruellia humilis Nutt.Ruellia humilis Nutt.1963William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1840Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John LeonardMeigs County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. SullivantIn woods pasture pond 30 rods south of my [W.S. Sullivant's] garden
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis var. communis1862W. M. CanbyCheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Trichostrongylus Looss, not of this specimenTrichostrongylus Looss, 19051906E. StevensonClifton
A photograph of the species Bunostomum trigonocephalum, not of this specimenBunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)1912D. MoteCarpenter
Heterakidae1912D. MoteCarpenter
Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)1912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Oesophagostomum columbianum, not of this specimenOesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 18901912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1916Nixon, E. L.Pomeroy

All 279 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

15 since 1995

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012LightningRutland$20,000One business had major damage from a fire ignited by lightning.
June 1996Flash FloodRutland$20,000no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodRutland$5,000Streams flooded from the Wolfpen region along Thomas Fork to Little Leading Creek around Rutland.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRutland$5,000Trees were uprooted and large branches fell across power lines. No major structural damage was reported.
August 2021Flash FloodRutland$4,000Leading Creek rose out of its banks leading to flooding along Lasher Road and Davidson Road near the community of Rutland.
May 2019Flash FloodRutland$2,000Thomas Fork flooded, closing a section of State Route 143 near State Route 7.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindRutland$2,000Several trees were blown down in southern Meigs County along a line from Scipio Township to Racine.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindRutland$2,000Scattered locations had trees blown down across secondary roads.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindRutland$2,000no account filed
April 2018Flash FloodRutland$1,000Flooding 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 2018Thunderstorm WindRutland$1,000Several trees were blown down near Rutland.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRutland$1,000Fallen trees disrupted electrical service
June 2007Thunderstorm WindRutland-no account filed
September 2007HailRutland-no account filed
September 2007HailRutland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Lima1.4 miles14
Langsville2.7 miles13
Wolfpen3.5 miles14
Thomas Village3.7 miles14
Bradbury4.2 miles14
Buckhorn (historical)4.2 miles13
Horner Hill4.4 miles14
Lincoln Heights4.5 miles14

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 RutlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673156The 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.