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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Sarahsville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43779. It stands on South Fork Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sarahsville quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Sarahsville within Noble County

Population over time

2 figures

Sarahsville fell from 166 to 147 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
2010166
2020147-19 (-11%)

Then and now

1909 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Sarahsville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sarahsville, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Sarahsville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15250
28 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15266
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15251
16 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15812
26 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15792
8 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8425
28 May 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4965
18 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4426

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 106 shown

Museums hold 106 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sarahsville between 1860 and 1975: 82 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 18211916not recorded
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916not recorded
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1860unknownstate route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek
A photograph of the species Daedalea ambigua, not of this specimenDaedalea ambigua Berk.1902Lloyd C. G.Glenwood
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
Apidae1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Apis mellifera, not of this specimenApis mellifera Linnaeus, 17581916not recorded
A photograph of the species Cuclotogaster heterographus, not of this specimenCuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Goniodes Nitzsch, not of this specimenGoniodes Nitzsch, 18181916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Haematopinus suis, not of this specimenHaematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Melissodes bimaculatus, not of this specimenMelissodes bimaculatus (Lepeletier, 1825)1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Populus tremuloides, not of this specimenPopulus tremuloides Michx.1922Davis, H.A.Marion

All 106 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

23 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Sarahsville in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 5 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 2008Flash FloodSarahsville$50,000Emergency management reported sections of State Routes 146 and 147 near Sarahsville closed due to flash flooding.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSarahsville$25,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2025Flash FloodSarahsville$5,000Emergency manager reported that Route 285 was flooded in one lane and temporarily closed.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSarahsville$5,000Tree were reported to be blown down along Route 285 south of Sarahsville.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSarahsville$5,000State official reported trees down along State Route 215, 285, and 147.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSarahsville$5,000Emergency management reported numerous trees down.
April 2011FloodSarahsville$5,000The public reported road flooding in Sarahsville.
April 2011FloodSarahsville$5,000Law enforcemetn reported SR 147 flooded near the Shenandoah High School.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindSarahsville$3,000A few trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindSarahsville$2,000Local highway department reported some trees down around Sarahsville.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSarahsville$1,000Several trees down.
April 2024FloodSarahsville-State Route 146 closed due to flooding. State Route 513 also impacted.
September 2021Heavy RainSarahsville-A storm total rainfall of 3.60 inches was reported.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSarahsville-Local police reported a large tree limbs down on West Tunnel Road.
April 2018FloodSarahsville-Department of Highways reported flooding along State Route 146 in both direction between the junction of 147 and Summerfield.
September 2018Heavy RainSarahsville-A Mesonet recorded 4.53 inches over a 72 hour period.
November 2017FloodSarahsville-County official reported flooding at the intersection of Routes 146 and 147 near Shenandoah High School.
March 2015FloodSarahsville-Emergency management reported that several roads were flooded and closed throughout the county due to heavy rainfall and snowmelt. These roadways include: the intersection of State Route 260 and 724, State Route 821 about a quarter mile south of Dexter City, the intersection of 147 and 146 near Shenandoah School, and the intersection of State Route 564 and 145.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSarahsville-Large trees down along Rt. 146 and Rt. 285.
June 2004Flash FloodSarahsville-Road flooded.
August 2004Flash FloodSarahsville-Portions of State Rtes 147, 513, and 566 closed by flooding; as well as CR 24.
April 2001HailSarahsville-no account filed
March 1997Flash FloodSarahsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Noble 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
Vorhies (historical)0.8 miles12
Center (historical)1.6 miles12
Fredericksdale2.2 miles12
Rochester3.4 miles13
Duvall3.5 miles12
Mount Ephraim3.8 miles12
East Union4.5 miles12
Slaters4.8 miles13

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 SarahsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q302866The 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 1065288. 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.