Zanesville, Ohio

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Zanesville grew from 474 to 24,765 between 1800 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.

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1992

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.

• 1910 USGS Zanesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Zanesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Zanesville city, in the words of 1882.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Zanesville between 2012 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Brighton
• Putnam
• Russells
• West Zanesville
• Westwood
• Licking View

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Museums hold 850 specimens collected within 10 miles of Zanesville between 1873 and 1975: 737 Animalia, 88 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W. M. 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
	Scleroderris rubra Morgan	1891	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Peziza nana Massee & Morgan	1895	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Frullania saxicola Austin	1896	William C. Werner
	Poa cuspidata Nutt.	1873	W. M. Canby	Zanesville.
	Frullania eboracensis Lehm.	1890	W. C. Werner
	Porella pinnata L.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1892	W. C. Werner	Fultonham
	Lycogala exiguum Morgan, 1893	1893	Morgan A.P.	Preston
	Lachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Peziza morganii Massee	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
	Tapesia derelicta Morgan	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston

All 850 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Zanesville: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

The National Weather Service names Zanesville in 113 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 62 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 17 flash flood, 5 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Muskingum County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1071002. 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.