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Beach City, Ohio

Inside Beach City's city limits, a shallow water table limits basements on 6% of mapped land. Shrink-swell clay limits houses without basements on 0%.

That water-table share is below Stark County's 60%. USDA doesn't rate the 28% of mapped land classed as urban land, so these shares are floors. FEMA's flood data list no flood losses since 2016 in ZIP code 44608 overlapping the city. Of its 396 homes, 81% were built before 1980; the median dates from 1939 or earlier.

Data as of October 13, 2026 · sources · in Stark County

0%

expansive clay: shrink-swell limits slab homes

6%

high water table: limits basements

0

flood losses since 2016 in 1 overlapping ZIP

81%

of homes built before 1980

Basement waterproofing in Beach City

Basement waterproofing in Beach City: a shallow water table limits basements on 6% of Beach City's mapped land.

In Stark County, 46% of the 35 flood-loss buildings with a recorded foundation type had basements.

About 300 of Beach City's 396 homes are detached houses.

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Soil under Beach City city limits

Expansive clay (limits slab homes)0.0%
High water table (limits basements)6.1%
Septic fields very limited61.1%
Clay swell (LEP, by area)1.6%
High-swell land (LEP 6%+)0.0%
Urban land, not rated28.4%
Mapped soil279 acres
Soil seriesShare hereSeries nationally: high water table
Chili47%0%
Wheeling4%under 1%
Wayland4%n/a
Conotton3%n/a
Melvin1%n/a
Sparta1%n/a
Stark CountyBeach City
Beach City city limits inside Stark County, shaded by the city's high water table share.under 10%10-25%25-40%40-60%60%+

How we count

What the numbers mean here

USDA rates 61% of the land very limited for septic absorption fields.

With shrink-swell clay on 0% and a shallow water table on 6% of the land, the soil survey points to neither problem across most of Beach City; conditions still vary lot by lot.

Drought in Stark County

0% of Stark County is in drought (D1 or worse) on the October 13, 2026 map. County detail.

October 21, 2025Share of area in drought, weeklyOctober 13, 2026

Flood losses by ZIP code

FEMA flood records since 2016 in the ZIP codes that overlap Beach City. ZIP areas reach past city limits.

ZIPShare of city landFlood lossesPaid
44608100%0$0

Homes in Beach City

Housing units396
Median year built1939 or earlier
Built before 198081%
Built 2000 or later2%
Owner-occupied62%
Median value, owner-occupied$130,700
Single-family detached66%

Nearby cities

PlaceDistanceExpansive clayHigh water table
Wilmot 3 mi 0% 99%
Brewster 4 mi 1% 52%
Strasburg 4 mi 1% 4%
Navarre 6 mi under 1% 43%
Bolivar 6 mi 0% 2%
Mount Eaton 7 mi 0% 28%
Parral 8 mi 1% 28%
Zoar 9 mi 1% 22%

Sources: USDA SSURGO (August 5, 2026) · US Drought Monitor (October 13, 2026) · FEMA NFIP v3 (September 9, 2026) · Census ACS 2020-2024. Methods · Data status