Groundhog: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the groundhog lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Marmota monax
Group	Squirrels, chipmunks & marmots
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	2 countries
Continents	North America
Mass	27 g (birth weight)
Class	Mammal
Order	Rodentia
Family	Sciuridae

Where does the groundhog live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the groundhog in 2 countries and territories across North America.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a groundhog?

Wikidata records the following for the groundhog: mass 27 g (birth weight).

Is the groundhog endangered?

The groundhog’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the groundhog?

The groundhog (Marmota monax) is a mammal in the order Rodentia and the family Sciuridae, genus Marmota. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the groundhog

The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots.

A lowland creature of North America, it is found through much of the Eastern United States, across Canada and into Alaska.

It was given its scientific name as Mus monax by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, based on a description of the animal by George Edwards, published in 1743.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Groundhog (revision 1379627183), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q221612 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).