Tuppers Plains, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Orange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45772. It stands on Limberger Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Coolville quadrangle. 438 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTuppers Plains fell from 465 to 438 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 465 | |
| 2020 | 438 | -27 (-6%) |
Then and now
1907 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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 Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
29 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Tuppers Plains between 2002 and 2020, burning about 50 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1861 |
| 2 July 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14146 |
| 25 May 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7831 |
| 8 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 226 shownMuseums hold 226 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tuppers Plains between 1831 and 1973: 215 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BRYAN, C R; BRYAN, B A, C. H. Jones, Carroll H. D. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass. | 1899 | Kellerman, W. A. | FLORA OF OHIO |
![]() | Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk. | 1940 | Carroll, G. | Big Spruce Creek |
![]() | Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub | 1964 | Wistendahl, J.D. | Athens. Sportsman Club Road, roadside ravine. Forked Run State Park. |
![]() | Myosotis laxa Lehm. | 1831 | C. H. Jones | Orange Twp. |
![]() | Helminthosporium turcicum Pass. | 1906 | Carroll H. D. | Bull Run |
![]() | Isariopsis griseola Sacc. | 1906 | Carroll H. D. | Bull Run |
![]() | Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Link | 1906 | Carroll H. D. | Bull Run |
![]() | Noturus eleutherus Jordan, 1877 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Shade River, at TR 359/Sorden Rd, 2 miles southeast of Chester OH, Chester township |
![]() | Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township |
![]() | Noturus stigmosus Taylor, 1969 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Shade River, trib of Ohio River, at Chester, center of Chester county |
![]() | Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | MB Trautman | Middle Branch of Shade River, SW Orange Twp. |
All 226 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 1996The National Weather Service names Tuppers Plains in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tuppers Plains | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tuppers Plains | $2,000 | Power lines were knocked down by fallen trees. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Tuppers Plains | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Tuppers Plains | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3472744 | The 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 1070968. 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.
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.

























