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

Sunbury, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1967. It stands in Sunbury Village Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43074. It stands on Rattlesnake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sunbury quadrangle. 6,614 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Sunbury within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Sunbury grew from 4,389 to 6,614 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
20104,389
20206,614+2,225 (+51%)

Then and now

1902 to 1967

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sunbury, surveyed 1967
Topographic sheet of Sunbury, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,481 shown

Museums hold 2,481 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sunbury between 1850 and 1975: 2,356 Animalia, 63 Plantae, 61 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan 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 Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.CurtisHypoxylon crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon howeianum PeckHypoxylon howeianum Peck1896A. P. Morgan
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tympanuchus americanus, not of this specimenTympanuchus americanus (Reichenbach, 1852)1874not recordedMonroeville, Ohio, USA

All 2,481 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sunbury: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Galena PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Vans Valley Road PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms nearby

30 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Sunbury in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
August 1997Tornado (F0)Sunbury$50,000A tornado made a brief touchdown damaging numerous trees, destroying a barn, damaged 2 homes, and carried away a swingset.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSunbury$10,000Several trees and power lines were downed.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSunbury$10,000Several trees were downed in the Sunbury area as well as in other parts of eastern Delaware County.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSunbury$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed in the Sunbury area.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSunbury$8,000Numerous power lines were reported down and a tree fell through the roof of a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSunbury$5,000Numerous trees were downed across eastern portions of Delaware County.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSunbury$3,000A few trees were downed near the intersection of Morning Street and Harrison Street.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindSunbury$3,000Multiple trees were downed on Orchard Lane.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSunbury$3,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSunbury$3,000Trees were knocked down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSunbury$3,000Trees and powerlines were downed.
June 2001Flash FloodSunbury$3,000Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused high water on roads.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindSunbury$3,000Several trees knocked down by strong winds.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSunbury$3,000Trees downed.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindSunbury$3,000no account filed
September 2020Thunderstorm WindSunbury$2,000Two large trees were uprooted at a residence on North Columbus Street.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSunbury$2,000A couple of trees were downed in Genoa and Porter Townships.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSunbury$2,000Extensive tree damage occurred north of Sunbury due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSunbury$1,000A tree was knocked down over the road.
August 2017HailSunbury$1,000A media member reported minor damage to his car which was parked outside.
June 2014Flash FloodSunbury$1,000Several roads were closed across the eastern part of Delaware County due to high water caused by heavy rainfall.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSunbury-The Emergency Manager estimated the wind gust.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSunbury-An observer reported a wind gust to 63 mph.
March 2024HailSunbury-no account filed
June 2013HailSunbury-no account filed
March 2012HailSunbury-no account filed
August 2000HailSunbury-no account filed
April 1998HailSunbury-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindSunbury-no account filed
August 1996HailSunbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Sunbury Estates0.8 miles10
Sunbury Meadows1.3 miles14
Walnut Creek1.5 miles13
Galena2.2 miles14
Rome2.8 miles14
Berkshire3.1 miles11
Cheshire Woods3.3 miles14
Vans Valley3.4 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 SunburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2617802The 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 1049231. 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.

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.