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Yorkville, Ohio

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Pease Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43971. It stands on Deep Run. The Survey maps it on the Tiltonsville quadrangle. 968 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Yorkville within Belmont County

Population over time

2 figures

Yorkville fell from 1,079 to 968 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
20101,079
2020968-111 (-10%)

Then and now

1902 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yorkville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Yorkville, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

27 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 1903 county history

11,634 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pease Township covers township organization, increase in population and wealth, the first, settlements, the old mills and meeting houses, coal mining, fruit.

Read the chapter on Pease Township - 11,634 words.

Fires nearby

12 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Yorkville between 1997 and 2019, burning about 69 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryWV RT. 2
17 April 2019Debris and open burning1.1 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15159
20 March 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 February 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryWARWOOD AVE.
3 November 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 November 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15361

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 520 shown

Museums hold 520 specimens collected within 10 miles of Yorkville between 1800 and 1975: 449 Plantae, 54 Animalia, 16 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.J. Sharp, ALBERT P BLAIR, Abbott, R 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 unnamed1972W. T. Johnson
Specimen of Dysodia oculatana Clemens, 1860Dysodia oculatana Clemens, 18601975not recorded
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1800Guttenberg, G.near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Robinia L., not of this specimenRobinia L.1829Guttenberg, G.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Geum canadense, not of this specimenGeum canadense Jacq.1870Mertz, H.N.Wheeling Hills near Mahum Creek
A photograph of the species Toxicodendron radicans, not of this specimenToxicodendron radicans subsp. negundo (Greene) Gillis1870Mertz, W.N.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Viola arvensis, not of this specimenViola arvensis Murray1870Guttenberg, H.G.Near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Sphenopholis obtusata, not of this specimenSphenopholis obtusata (Michx.) Scribn.1872E. S. MillerWheeling.
A photograph of the species Acer dasycarpum, not of this specimenAcer dasycarpum Ehrh.1876Mertz, H.N.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Diplazium pycnocarpon, not of this specimenDiplazium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) M.Broun1876Guttenberg, G.near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Dryopteris goldiana, not of this specimenDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1876H. N. Mertz
A photograph of the species Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, not of this specimenPseudognaphalium obtusifolium (L.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt1876Mertz, H.N.Wheeling

All 520 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Yorkville: 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Iron, Bituminous, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ayers Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Ayers Limestone Quarry,Inc.Bituminous, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wheeling-Pgh/ Martins Ferry, OhioIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Belmont County

Storms nearby

3 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Yorkville in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2025Flash FloodYorkville$5,000State official reported water flowing over Beach Spring Road.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindYorkville$2,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a metal shed.
March 1996Flash FloodYorkville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Glenndale (historical)1.5 miles27
Florence2.4 miles27
Terminal Junction3.2 miles27
Martins Ferry4.1 miles27
Morningview4.6 miles17
Aetnaville5.1 miles27
Sunset Heights5.4 miles18
Colerain5.6 miles17

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 YorkvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2488666The 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 1049357. 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.