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Sardis, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43946. It stands on Pool Run. The Survey maps it on the Paden City quadrangle. 522 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,192 feet above sea level.

Sardis within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Sardis fell from 559 to 522 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
2010559
2020522-37 (-7%)

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sardis, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Sardis, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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

13 since 1993

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Sardis between 1993 and 2019, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryROUTE 180
31 August 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryNEW MARTINSVILLE
2 May 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 2
3 April 1995Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryPADEN CITY
17 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySLIDER RUN
12 April 2015Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryAMERICAN RIDGE
12 April 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySLIDER RUN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 307 shown

Museums hold 307 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sardis between 1860 and 1975: 280 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albert Hazen Wright, Albert Wright, Bartholomew, E.A. 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
Specimen of Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.1924L.L. Lehman
Specimen of Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein.Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein.1931F. O. GroverS of Oak point, woods
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Aralia racemosa, not of this specimenAralia racemosa L.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Astragalus canadensis, not of this specimenAstragalus canadensis L.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Desmodium glutinosum, not of this specimenDesmodium glutinosum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Alph.Wood1877Guttenberg, G.New Martin[s]ville
A photograph of the species Sericocarpus asteroides, not of this specimenSericocarpus asteroides (L.) Britton, Stern & Poggenb.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Asplenium platyneuron, not of this specimenAsplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1878Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Aureolaria virginica, not of this specimenAureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell1879Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Asclepias quadrifolia, not of this specimenAsclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1897Guttenberg, H.G.New Martinville

All 307 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sardis: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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
Ormet Aluminum PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant1958
Crane No. 4 and Wetzel St. PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mcdonough PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plant Number 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms nearby

5 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Sardis in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSardis$10,000Trees were blown down on State Route 255.
June 2019Flash FloodSardis-The public reported that Narrows Run was causing flooding on State Route 7.
June 2019Flash FloodSardis-Local law enforcement reported that State Route 7 was closed due to high water.
June 2019HailSardis-Hailed ranged in diameter from nickel to quarter in size.
June 2019Flash FloodSardis-Narrows Run Road was closed due to high water, according to local law enforcement.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Lodi1.7 miles19
Duffy2.6 miles17
Hannibal3.7 miles17
Goodwin3.9 miles18
Morton4.0 miles18
Dairy4.1 miles18
Wittens4.2 miles19
Winklers Mill4.3 miles18

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 SardisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472330The 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 1076834. 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.