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

Whitehall, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Whitehall City. It lies in ZIP code area 43213. It stands on Turkey Run. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Columbus quadrangle. 20,127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Whitehall within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Whitehall grew from 18,062 to 20,127 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.

YearPeople Change
201018,062
202020,127+2,065 (+11%)

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whitehall, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Whitehall, surveyed 1925

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 nearby

1 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Whitehall between 2007 and 2007, burning about 0 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 burning1

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
10 October 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 10,081 shown

Museums hold 10,081 specimens collected within 10 miles of Whitehall between 1814 and 1975: 8,117 Animalia, 1,266 Fungi, 550 Plantae, 117 Chromista, 30 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 19 V 1938 in original publication, Knull, =, ? 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 Cintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De ToniCintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De Toni1900Tyler, F.J.; O. E. JenningsColumbus
Specimen of Sorghum bicolor (L.) MoenchSorghum bicolor (L.) Moench1900Jennings, O.E.Columbus, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Hirundo Linnaeus, not of this specimenHirundo Linnaeus, 17581814not recordedColumbus Ohio, Franklin, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Callimome strobiloides, not of this specimenCallimome strobiloides Huber, 19271821C. HuberColumbus
A photograph of the species Solidago riddellii, not of this specimenSolidago riddellii Frank1832W. A. KellermanA few miles N of Columbus.
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1834AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1837W. S. SullivantNear Columbus
A photograph of the species Carex bullata, not of this specimenCarex bullata Willd.1837AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1837AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Carex granularis, not of this specimenCarex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.1837AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471897not recordedNo Further Locality Data
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897Clevenger, J. F.Columbus

All 10,081 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Whitehall: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blacklick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Blacklick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Claycraft No 4 & 5 PitsClayProducer
Claycraft PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

16 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Whitehall in 16 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
October 2006HailWhitehall$10,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$5,000Trees were blown down just south of Port Columbus International Airport.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWhitehall$2,000Sixty four mph winds were recorded near Eastland Mall.
March 2020Flash FloodWhitehall-Several roads were closed throughout the county due to high flowing water.
March 2020Flash FloodWhitehall-Several roads remained closed throughout the county due to the earlier heavy rainfall.
July 2017Flash FloodWhitehall-Several roads were closed along Hamilton Road due to high water.
July 2017Flash FloodWhitehall-A creek overflowed onto Robinwood Avenue.
July 2013FloodWhitehall-Mason run Creek was reported out of its banks which closed Robinwood Avenue at Elburn Avenue and also closed the intersection of Doney Road and Beechcreek Road due to heavy rainfall. The water was reported as standing at the time.
June 2003Flash FloodWhitehall-A trailer park was evacuated as water rose to two to three feet deep. Several motorists were stranded in their cars by high water on Yearling Road.
February 2025HailWhitehall-no account filed
May 2022HailWhitehall-no account filed
May 2022HailWhitehall-no account filed
March 2012HailWhitehall-no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWhitehall-no account filed
April 2006HailWhitehall-no account filed
May 2005HailWhitehall-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
Big Walnut (historical)0.8 miles16
Doneys (historical)1.2 miles16
Eastmoor1.4 miles16
Roseland2.0 miles16
Truro2.3 miles16
East Columbus2.6 miles16
Wonderland (historical)2.6 miles12
Taylor Station2.7 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 WhitehallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2089711The 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 1049324. 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.