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Thornport, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Thorn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43076. It lies near Hickory Island. The Survey maps it on the Thornville quadrangle. 1,120 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Thornport within Perry County

Then and now

1909 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Thornport, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Thornport, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

On record in Thornport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Thornport grew from 1,004 to 1,120 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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
20101,004
20201,120+116 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed 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 near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Thornport between 2007 and 2020, burning about 52 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7408
3 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15925
28 November 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9968
23 October 2015Debris and open burning50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3048

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 115 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 115 specimens collected within 10 miles of Thornport between 1900 and 1965: 101 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, Breakey, David H. Stansbery 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 Uromyces scirpi BurrillUromyces scirpi Burrill1902Kellerman, W.A.Buckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Dicentra cucullaria, not of this specimenDicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh.1900Williamson, E.B.New Salem
A photograph of the species Puccinia muhlenbergiae, not of this specimenPuccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw.1902W. A. KellermanBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Uromyces Unger, not of this specimenUromyces (Link) Unger, 18331902W. A. KellermanBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Cercosporella cana, not of this specimenCercosporella cana (Sacc.) Sacc.1903Kellerman, W.A.Buckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Absconditella sphagnorum, not of this specimenAbsconditella sphagnorum Vĕzda & Poelt1910F. DetmersBuckeye Lake, Cranberry Island
A photograph of the species Sphagnum palustre, not of this specimenSphagnum palustre L.1910R. F. GriggsBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Sphagnum recurvum, not of this specimenSphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.1910R. F. GriggsBuckeye Lake
Orchelimum nigripes Scudder, 18751923Fulton, B.BBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1925not recordedBuckeye Lake
Nilobezzia mallochi Wirth, 19621925not recordedBuckeye Lake
Probezzia Kieffer, 19061925not recordedBuckeye Lake

All 115 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Thornville1.2 miles14
Firemans Park2.0 miles14
Walser3.0 miles12
Yost4.2 miles12
Bruno4.5 miles12
Ziontown4.9 miles11
Glenford5.3 miles12
Glass Rock6.9 miles12

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 ThornportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6146172The 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 1061685. 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.