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South Zanesville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43701. It stands on Flat Run. The Survey maps it on the Zanesville West quadrangle. 1,894 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

South Zanesville within Muskingum County

Population over time

2 figures

South Zanesville fell from 1,989 to 1,894 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
20101,989
20201,894-95 (-5%)

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Zanesville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of South Zanesville, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

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

37 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of South Zanesville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 34 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 burning22
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15264
28 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2969
12 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2971
2 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12945
16 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15749
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15753
9 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 790 shown

Museums hold 790 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Zanesville between 1873 and 1975: 727 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. M., Adams, William 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 Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Fissidens adianthoides, not of this specimenFissidens adianthoides Hedw.1892W. C. WernerFultonham
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza morganii MasseePeziza morganii Massee1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston

All 790 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of South Zanesville: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Armco Inc/ Zanesville, OhioIronProducer
Sidwell Brothers Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Sidwell Brothers Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Granite Plant PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muskingum R. Plant No 1 Mine & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Salt Creek Materials Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms nearby

7 since 2003

The National Weather Service names South Zanesville in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindSouth Zanesville$5,000Trees were reported down in South Zanesville.
February 2022FloodSouth Zanesville$5,000Flooding was reported at the Southtown Cafe due to heavy rain.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSouth Zanesville-Power lines down across boat docks.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Zanesville-An emergency manager reported several trees and power lines down, including in the vicinity of Fair Street and Maysville Pike.
August 2013FloodSouth Zanesville-The local 911 center reported several roads closed across the city of Zanesville. These roads include the intersections of June Parkway and East Lasalle Street, Coppermill Road and Potts lane, Dillon Falls Road and Kingsview Drive, and the entrance ramp of I-70 from West Pike Road. Water was reported to be several inches deep in some locations.
July 2003Flash FloodSouth Zanesville-Maple Ave flooded.
June 2024HailSouth Zanesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskingum 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
Southern Meadows0.6 miles15
Muskingum (historical)0.9 miles13
Buckeye1.0 miles15
Zanesville Terrace1.5 miles13
Maysville1.5 miles13
Westwood1.6 miles13
Putnam1.6 miles13
Hidden Mound1.7 miles15

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 South ZanesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1872308The 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 1070944. 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.