Blake, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1994

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.

• 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Seville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Seville quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1861 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Blake between 2009 and 2009, burning about 0 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.

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:

• Acme
• Boneta
• Clark Corners
• River Styx
• Sharon Center
• Wadsworth

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Museums hold 182 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blake between 1884 and 1975: 165 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05], B Zahuranec & party 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
	Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	not recorded
	Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link	1894	Watson, J.R.	Medina Co.
	Aquilegia canadensis L.	1897	Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05]	[label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio]
	Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758	1884	unknown	Medina
	Halictus confusus confusus	1885	H. E. Summers	Medina
	Plantago cordata Lam.	1891	F. E. Lloyd	Selsville, north of Columbus
	Culicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901)	1897	J. Hine	Medina
	Hinea Townsend, 1916	1897	J. Hine	Medina
	Aplectrum hyemale (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt.	1898	Illegible collector name	Medina
	Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1899	A. Roberts
	Tabanus pruniosus Hine, 1900	1899	[Not Stated]	Medina
	Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)	1905	not recorded	Hinckley, Medina Co., Ohio, USA

All 182 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Blake: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 Medina County

The National Weather Service names Blake in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Medina County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060879. 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.