Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Bayard, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44657. It stands on Middle Branch Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Homeworth quadrangle.

Bayard within Columbiana County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bayard, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Bayard, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 county-history sources

42,133 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on West Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The village of Bayard is situate at the junction of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh with the Tuscarawas Branch Railroad. It was laid out and surveyed in April, 1852, under the direction of Cyrus Prentiss and James Farmer, who purchased the lands for the purpose. The village has two hotels, - the " Valley House," built about 1861, by John B. Milner, and now kept by John H. Huth, and the "St. Charles Hotel," built about 1867, by James M. Leith, and now conducted by Charles Blythe. Although Bayard has no manufacturing interests within its platted limits, it is a place of considerable importance as a post-office and a railroad transfer station. Alfred Jones is postmaster and station- agent. The village has a population of about 125.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on West Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bayard between 2003 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning	7

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 April 2013	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2005	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15988
19 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15993
17 November 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 228 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 228 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bayard between 1878 and 1967: 145 Plantae, 83 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K., Catherine D. Hemphill 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Tringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1878	Collector(s): Leonard R. Freeman	Ohio Valley
Pisidium punctiferum (Guppy, 1867)	1915	Sterki, Victor	Brook E of Bayard
Agallia quadripunctata (Provancher, 1872)	1923	not recorded
Braconidae	1923	not recorded
Cynipidae	1923	W.V. Balduf
Ichneumonidae	1923	not recorded
Insecta	1923	not recorded
Schizocerella pilicornis (Holmgren)	1923	not recorded
Tiphia J.C.Fabricius, 1775	1923	not recorded
Torymidae	1923	W.V. Balduf
Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Mahoning River, within Butler township, near Winona, Butler township
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Mahoning River, within Mahoning Co, Columbiana County, township n/a

All 228 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayard in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Flash Flood	Bayard	$100,000	Sandy Creek flooded Bayard Rd just north of Bayard.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bayard	$5,000	The public reported numerous trees over several hundred yards of wooded area. Cornfield was leveled by wind.
June 1995	Hail	Bayard	-	Large limbs fell in Salem and Winona. Large trees were downed near Homeworth.
April 2004	Hail	Bayard	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Bayard	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbiana 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Town And Country Park Estates	0.4 miles	14
East Rochester	1.6 miles	14
Chambersburg	3.1 miles	18
Moultrie	3.2 miles	18
Lynchburg	3.5 miles	14
New Alexander	4.6 miles	14
Kensington	5.8 miles	14
Homeworth	5.8 miles	18

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 Bayard	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133514	The 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 1048491. 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.

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.