Ohio · Census place 3927902

Fort Recovery, Ohio

Fort Recovery is a village in Mercer County, Ohio with an estimated 1,474 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 455th largest of 526 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,474
#455 of 526 in Ohio
Change since 2020
-1.5%
-23 people
Land area
1.2 sq mi
+ 0.02 sq mi water
Density
1,198 / sq mi
State median 2,000
Orange pin: Fort Recovery. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Columbus.

Fort Recovery population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Recovery lost 23 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +0.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,498. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Fort Recovery covers 1.23 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,198 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Fort Recovery is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fort Recovery is in

All of Fort Recovery's residents live in Mercer County, which had 42,648 residents in 2024. Fort Recovery holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Recovery

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Recovery by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 45846. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Fort Recovery is

The Census internal point of Fort Recovery is at 40.412300, -84.776300. Columbus, the capital, is 98.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Henry, OH (2,608 people), 7.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Wayne, IN, 50.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.412300, -84.776300
DMS
40°24'44.28"N 84°46'34.68"W
UTM
16N 688675.5E 4475894.3N
Geohash
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Plus code
86GQC66F+WF

Daylight in Fort Recovery

At 40.41° N, Fort Recovery gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Recovery

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Henry, 7.6 miles away, with 2,608 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Fort Recovery, OH?

1,474 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 23 (1.5%) from 1,497 in July 2020.

What county is Fort Recovery in?

Mercer County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Fort Recovery?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 45846.

How far is Fort Recovery from Columbus?

98.7 miles (158.9 km) in a straight line, heading ESE from Fort Recovery.

What is the nearest larger city to Fort Recovery?

St. Henry, OH, with 2,608 residents, 7.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.