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

Westerville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Westerville City. It lies in ZIP code area 43081. The Survey maps it on the Galena quadrangle. 39,190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Westerville within Franklin County

Then and now

1902 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westerville, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Westerville, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 3,350 shown

Museums hold 3,350 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westerville between 1804 and 1975: 3,270 Animalia, 48 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. J. Penniman, 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
A photograph of the species Juniperus virginiana, not of this specimenJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana1804Dr. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1805J. R. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1809Collector unknownWorthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Serpoleskea confervoides, not of this specimenSerpoleskea confervoides (Brid.) Loeske1842W. S. Sullivant6 miles above Columbus
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1870not recordedFranklin, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Chaetura pelagica, not of this specimenChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)1873J M Wheaton
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1875Muriealin, JFlint?
A photograph of the species Aquila chrysaetos, not of this specimenAquila chrysaetos canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedFranklin, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOlentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio

All 3,350 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

36 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Westerville in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 19 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. 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
April 2003HailWesterville$80,000,000Hail up to the size of golf balls affected the north side of the Columbus metro area and southern Delaware county. Hail was extensive from Dublin, through Worthington and Powell, to Westerville. Trees and shrubs were stripped of their foliage and cars and homes sustained significant hail damage. The hail covered the ground in some locations up to six inches deep in Worthington in northern Franklin county and near the Polaris Mall in southern Delaware county.
October 1999LightningWesterville$20,000A lightning strike created a house fire, causing extensive damage to one residence.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWesterville$10,000Numerous trees were downed, including two that fell on houses.
July 2011Flash FloodWesterville$10,000County line road was closed between Spring Road and Hempstead Road due to high water caused by heavy rain. One car was stranded in the high water.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWesterville$5,000Numerous trees downed.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Three mature trees were knocked down near the intersection of County Line and Hempstead Roads.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Several trees were knocked down near the intersection of Walnut Street and Orchard Lane.
September 2018Flash FloodWesterville$3,000High water was reported on numerous roads through the city of Westerville. Several cars became stranded in the high water.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Trees were knocked down a mile or two south of the Polaris area.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Several trees were knocked down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindWesterville$3,000Trees downed.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000A large section of a 50 foot tall tree was knocked down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Two large trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Tree limbs were downed in the area of Westerville due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000A large tree limb was broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWesterville$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWesterville$500Several large tree limbs were downed.
July 2023HailWesterville-Pea to dime sized hail was covering the ground.
August 2022FloodWesterville-High water was encroaching on a building at Columbus State Community College.
June 2014FloodWesterville-Park Meadow Road near Schrock Road was closed due to high water caused by heavy rainfall.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWesterville-The spotter estimated the magnitude of the thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWesterville-A trained spotter estimated the wind gust.
March 2026HailWesterville-no account filed
March 2026HailWesterville-no account filed
March 2024HailWesterville-no account filed
April 2024HailWesterville-no account filed
July 2023HailWesterville-no account filed
March 2022HailWesterville-no account filed
August 2012HailWesterville-no account filed
March 2012HailWesterville-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWesterville-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWesterville-no account filed
August 2003HailWesterville-no account filed
June 1994HailWesterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Huber Ridge2.7 miles14
Central College2.7 miles14
Sharon2.8 miles14
Blendon Corner3.2 miles14
Pinhook3.3 miles14
Wildwood Springs (historical)3.3 miles14
Minerva Park3.5 miles14
Flint4.1 miles16

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 WestervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233932The 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 1061759. 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.

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.