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.
Population over time
2 figuresWindham 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,209 | |
| 2020 | 1,666 | -543 (-25%) |
Then and now
1906 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1906 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Ravenna quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Ravenna quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Ravenna quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Windham quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Windham quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Windham quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Windham quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
10,186 words on this township1927 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 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1884 | G. Dean | Garretsville |
![]() | Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw. | 1904 | Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. Webb | Freedom Twp |
![]() | Botrychium dissectum Spreng. | 1924 | Webb, Roscoe J. | Alford's Glen |
![]() | Lepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort. | 1884 | Czekaj | |
![]() | Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1885 | Collector(s): S. N. Denton | Windham |
![]() | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
![]() | Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802) | 1893 | not recorded | Garrettsville |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
![]() | Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
![]() | Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
![]() | Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio |
All 442 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Portage Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Portage Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Windham | $500,000 | An 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed several trees south of Windham. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree across State Route 303 near Stanley Road. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of trees. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | $1,000 | One large tree and a large limb was reported down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | $1,000 | Large limbs were downed on roads. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | - | Tree fell onto an above ground swimming pool in Windham, causing heavy damage to pool. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Windham | - | Quarter to half dollar sized hail was reported. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | - | Several trees were downed. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Windham | - | A weak tornado briefly touched down near State Routes 88 and 303. No damage was reported. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahoning | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| P And M Estates | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Homestead Manor | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Garrettsville | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Harrisport (historical) | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Greenleafs Corners (historical) | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Drakesburg | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Paris | 4.7 miles | 13 |
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 Windham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2242395 | 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 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.
























