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

Walnut Creek, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Walnut Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44681. The Survey maps it on the Sugarcreek quadrangle. 908 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,904 feet above sea level.

Walnut Creek within Holmes County

Population over time

2 figures

Walnut Creek grew from 878 to 908 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	878
2020	908	+30 (+3%)

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Walnut Creek, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Walnut Creek, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Photographs

8 photographs, 2016

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Gourds, pumpkins (which are a form of gourds), and twig stacks at Yoder's Amish Home, an authentic Amish farm that began accepting visitors in 1983 near Walnut Creek in central Ohio, along the "Amish Country Byway"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

Horse-drawn Amish buggies journey down a country road at Yoder's Amish Home, an authentic Amish farm that began accepting visitors in 1983 near Walnut Creek in central Ohio, along the "Amish Country Byway"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

A horse-drawn Amish buggy journeys down a country road at Yoder's Amish Home, an authentic Amish farm that began accepting visitors in 1983 near Walnut Creek in central Ohio, along the "Amish Country Byway"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

Farmhouse kitchen at Yoder's Amish Home, an authentic Amish farm that began accepting visitors in 1983 near Walnut Creek in central Ohio, along the "Amish Country Byway"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

Assortment of jellies, jams, and soups inside the farmhouse at Yoder's Amish Home, an authentic Amish farm that began accepting visitors in 1983 near Walnut Creek in central Ohio, along the "Amish Country Byway"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

Woodburning fireplace in the farmhouse kitchen at Yoder's Amish Home, an authentic Amish farm that began accepting visitors in 1983 near Walnut Creek in central Ohio, along the "Amish Country Byway"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

Men's straw hats, hanging inside the farmhouse at Yoder's Amish Home, an authentic Amish farm that began accepting visitors in 1983 near Walnut Creek in central Ohio, along the "Amish Country Byway"
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

Fires nearby

2 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Creek between 2009 and 2009, burning about 2 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 burning	2

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
17 November 2009	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 November 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 80 shown

Museums hold 80 specimens collected within 10 miles of Walnut Creek between 1893 and 1974: 61 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Alleshonse? O. C., Alleshouse O. C. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato	1896	Wetzstein, A.	Fryburg
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind	1914	B. Fink
Arachnion album Schwein.	1893	A. P. Morgan
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1906	Alleshouse O. C.	New Bedford
Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1906	Alleshonse? O. C.	New Bedford
Vitis aestivalis Michx.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Quercus rubra L.	1916	Drushel, J.A.
Salix alba L.	1916	Drushel, J.A.
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1922	C.F. Zuercher	Goose Valley
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1924	C.F. Zuercher	Walnut Creek, north of
Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1925	C.F. Zuercher	Walnut Creek, near

All 80 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Walnut Creek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Belden Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer

Every working recorded in Holmes County

Storms nearby

8 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Walnut Creek in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2001	Hail	Walnut Creek	$15,000	Quarter size hail was reported. A few cars were damaged.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut Creek	$8,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a church.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut Creek	$8,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut Creek	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a couple trees near Walnut Creek.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut Creek	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
May 2012	Hail	Walnut Creek	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.
September 2010	Hail	Walnut Creek	-	Thunderstorms produced penny to quarter size hail.
July 1997	Hail	Walnut Creek	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Holmes 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Unionville	2.8 miles	15
Limpytown	2.8 miles	15
Trail	3.5 miles	15
Farmerstown	3.7 miles	14
Bunker Hill	3.9 miles	16
Berlin	4.1 miles	16
Charm	4.1 miles	16
Millers Corners	5.1 miles	16

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 Walnut Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472336	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 1065448. 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.