Steubenville, Ohio

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Steubenville fell from 18,659 to 18,161 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 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 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.

• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Steubenville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Steubenville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Steubenville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Steubenville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Steubenville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Steubenville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Steubenville between 2010 and 2017, burning about 16 acres in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Alikanna
• Becker Highlands
• Beverly Hills
• Brady Estates
• Buena Vista Heights
• Glendwell

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Museums hold 498 specimens collected within 10 miles of Steubenville between 1836 and 1974: 274 Animalia, 184 Plantae, 39 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, Allison W. Cusick 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
	Vitis aestivalis Michx.	1836	Jewett
	Polygonum erectum L.	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
	Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link	1902	W. A. Kellerman
	Betula lenta L.	1877	Wertz, H.W.	Buffalo Creek near Wheeling
	Carex hirsutella Mack.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Dichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Elymus hystrix L.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1877	Guttenberg, H.G.	Wellsburg
	Galium circaezans Michx.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	near Steubenville
	Hypericum mutilum L.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville

All 498 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Steubenville: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

The National Weather Service names Steubenville in 62 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 46 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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 Jefferson County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 4 issues spread across its run from 1855 to 1858, 14,234 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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 1065383. 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.