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Windham, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Windham Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44288. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Windham quadrangle. 1,666 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Windham within Portage County

Population over time

2 figures

Windham fell from 2,209 to 1,666 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
20102,209
20201,666-543 (-25%)

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Windham, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Windham, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

10,186 words on this township

1927 Portage County High School Yearbook, published 1927 names this settlement in its chapter on Windham Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

"The enrollment of the school proved so large this year when school opened September 7, 1926, that it was necessary to take the first and part of the second grades to a separate building. The fifth grade was also divided, The attendance in tho seventh and eighth grade room was so large that, at the beginning of the second semester an extra teacher was secured,

Passage source: 1927 Portage County High School Yearbook, published 1927.

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 Windham Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 442 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 442 specimens collected within 10 miles of Windham between 1884 and 1975: 329 Animalia, 109 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884G. DeanGarretsville
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1904Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. WebbFreedom Twp
Specimen of Botrychium dissectum Spreng.Botrychium dissectum Spreng.1924Webb, Roscoe J.Alford's Glen
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Collector(s): S. N. DentonWindham
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1893not recordedGarrettsville
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio

All 442 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Windham: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Portage PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Portage QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windham in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Windham$500,000An EF1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 110 mph occurred in Windham. The tornado began near the intersection of OH Route 303 and Stanley Road. The tornado|produced wind damage of EF0 to low end EF1 intensity as it downed trees and damaged roofs of several buildings. The tornado continued northeastward toward Bryant Road, where the tornado caused significant damage to a large garage and moved a shed several yards, in addition to downing several trees. The tornado crossed|the Ohio Turnpike, impacted three tractor trailers, and closed the highway for some time. North of the Ohio Turnpike and off Bryant Road, the tornado heavily damaged a mobile home, flipped over a car and boat, and caused other minor structural damage,|indicative of EF1 damage. The tornado continued northeast toward Parkman Road, Crestview Drive, Wisteria Street, and Geneva Drive. This area experienced the greatest damage from the tornado, indicative of the 110 mph rating. Several homes were heavily damaged with loss of roofing material, siding, and blown out windows. Two homes were shifted off their foundations. Numerous large trees were downed onto some homes. The tornado continued northeastward and crossed OH Route 82, west of Horn Road, where several trees were snapped. The tornado continued producing tree|damage to Frazier Road before dissipating prior to reaching Silica Sand Road.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindWindham$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed several trees south of Windham.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWindham$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree across State Route 303 near Stanley Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWindham$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of trees.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWindham$1,000One large tree and a large limb was reported down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWindham$1,000Large limbs were downed on roads.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWindham-Tree fell onto an above ground swimming pool in Windham, causing heavy damage to pool.
August 2011HailWindham-Quarter to half dollar sized hail was reported.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindWindham-Several trees were downed.
April 1998Tornado (F0)Windham-A weak tornado briefly touched down near State Routes 88 and 303. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Mahoning1.6 miles13
P And M Estates2.0 miles13
Homestead Manor3.1 miles13
Garrettsville4.2 miles13
Harrisport (historical)4.2 miles13
Greenleafs Corners (historical)4.4 miles13
Drakesburg4.5 miles15
Paris4.7 miles13

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 WindhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2242395The 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 1061794. 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.

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.