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

Waynesburg, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sandy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44688. It stands on Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waynesburg quadrangle. 925 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Waynesburg within Stark County

Population over time

2 figures

Waynesburg grew from 923 to 925 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	923
2020	925	+2 (+0%)

Then and now

1912 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Waynesburg, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Waynesburg, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

In the county-history sources

61,747 words on this township

History of Stark County, with an Outline Sketch of Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Sandy Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Of the early officers of Sanrly Township, the writer has not ijeen alile to find complete records. The first election was lield at the house of Isaac Van Meter, near where Joseph Fiickinger's residence now stands, but what officers were elected does not appear in the old records of the township now extant. The oldest book in existence, so far as known, being a Township Clerk's book, bearina; date June 16, 1818, James Hewitt was the first Justice of the Peace, antl elections were often held at his house, which strjod in what is now Brown Township, Carroll Co,, on land owned by William Denny Robertson, south of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railway, For the following story of the first coming of permanent settlers, we are indebted to the graphic pen of Hon, John (t, Croxton. of Canal Dover, Ohio, who was for many years a resident of this township, and was well acquainted with many of its sturdy pioneers, Mr, Croxton's wonderful memory of names and dates is so well known in tills community as to make him an acknowledged authority. Like all good story-tellers, he begins at the beginning, and his story shall not be spoiled by abridgement. He says :

Passage source: History of Stark County, with an Outline Sketch of Ohio, published 1881.

Returning to the camp they found it deserted, the second parly of redskins having attacked the other tin-ee scouts in their absence. When attacked. Downing favored sticking together, but Diliow sang out every man for himself, and ran off down the blufl' toward the of Yellow Creek, on Tumblesou's Run, at the farm of Jacob Neesly. They were men peculiarly adapted to the task in hand, by reason of known skill in woodcraft, and the fact that the two last named had been captured in boyhood by the Wyandot Indians, and grew to manhood among tliem. They escaped to their white friends but a short while before the time we write of, and had taken service under old " Mad .Vnlhony. "

Passage source: History of Stark County, with an Outline Sketch of Ohio, published 1881.

In these times, Sandy and adjoining townsliips supported what is now an unknown occupation. William Mays, father of the venerable Andrew Mays, for many ^ears a citizen of Waynesburg, and grandfather of Madison M. Mays, Esq., was a traveling shoemaker. He went from house to house as he was wanted, making up shoes for the family. Mr. John Uewit has still in his possession a shoemaker's hammer, which once belonged to this knight of the last."

Passage source: History of Stark County, with an Outline Sketch of Ohio, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Sandy Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Fires near this place

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Waynesburg between 2003 and 2018, burning about 34 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	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 April 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2005	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1321
19 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12786
16 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12785

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 135 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 135 specimens collected within 10 miles of Waynesburg between 1900 and 1951: 133 Animalia, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Baker, C. W., Baker, C.W. 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
Amnicola cincinnatiensis (J.G.Anthony, 1840)	1900	Stearns, Robert E C	Canton
Pleuroceridae	1900	Stearns, Robert E C	Canton
Achalarus lyciades (Geyer, 1832)	1927	C.W. Baker
Ambloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township

All 135 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Waynesburg: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
D and M Pit	Clay, Coal	Past Producer
Malvern Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Malvern Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
D & M Coal Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
D and M Clay and Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mineral City Plant	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mineral City Plant	Clay	Plant

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waynesburg in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 13 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesburg	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesburg	$7,000	A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured. A few trees and large limbs were downed.
June 2006	Hail	Waynesburg	$4,000	Quarter size hail was observed.
August 2020	Hail	Waynesburg	-	Penny-size hail in Waynesburg.
June 2017	Hail	Waynesburg	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
August 2017	Hail	Waynesburg	-	Hail the size of quarters was observed.
August 2017	Funnel Cloud	Waynesburg	-	A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud.
June 2008	Hail	Waynesburg	-	Quarter size hail was observed.
April 2006	Hail	Waynesburg	-	Penny size hail was observed.
June 2006	Hail	Waynesburg	-	Nickel size hail was observed.
June 2006	Hail	Waynesburg	-	Penny size hail was observed.
May 2004	Hail	Waynesburg	-	Penny size hail was observed.
August 2003	Hail	Waynesburg	-	Penny size hail was observed.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesburg	-	A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesburg	-	A 60 mph wind gust was measured in Waynesburg.
June 1998	Flash Flood	Waynesburg	-	Heavy thunderstorm rain caused flooding of roads. Some were covered by four and one half feet of water.
September 1999	Hail	Waynesburg	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Waynesburg	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Waynesburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stark 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
Goodland Acres	0.5 miles	17
Magnolia	2.5 miles	17
East Sparta	5.2 miles	17
Mapleton	5.4 miles	16
Howenstine	5.9 miles	17
Marks (historical)	6.0 miles	17
Hardscrabble (historical)	6.2 miles	17
Battlesburg	6.3 miles	17

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 Waynesburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1903311	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 1058110. 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.