South Charleston, Ohio

South Charleston grew from 1,693 to 1,706 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 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1986

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 South Charleston quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Madison township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

Illustrated Historical Atlas of Clark County, Ohio, published 1875; The History of Clark County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Clark County; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc. .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 175 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Charleston between 1927 and 1973: 159 Animalia, 16 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Boone, B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward, Binkley, L. E. (Lowell) 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
	Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1927	Thomas, E. S. (Edward S.)	Near South Vienna, Clark Co., Ohio
	Rana catesbeiana Shaw, 1802	1927	Thomas, E. S. (Edward S.)	Near South Vienna, Clark Co., Ohio
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp
	Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp
	Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp
	Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp
	Lythrurus ardens (Cope, 1868)	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1930	MB Trautman	Beaver Creek, trib of Buck Creek, Western Harmony Twp

All 175 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Charleston in 22 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 flash 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 Clark 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 1065347. 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.

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.