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Blissfield, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43844. It stands on Hoagland Run. The Survey maps it on the Killbuck quadrangle. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Blissfield within Coshocton County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blissfield, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Blissfield, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

Fires nearby

10 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Blissfield between 2005 and 2018, burning about 59 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11025
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2005Debris and open burning30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources881
19 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources767

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,293 shown

Museums hold 1,293 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blissfield between 1846 and 1974: 605 Animalia, 590 Plantae, 90 Fungi, 4 Bacteria, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albaugh, W. F., Baumgartner, Baumgartner, L. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.GrayDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1898Wetzstein, A.Rich woods, New Bremen.
Specimen of Bulgaria rufa Schwein.Bulgaria rufa Schwein.1942H. MoldenkeCoshocton, North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Specimen of Calvatia rubroflava (Cragin) LloydCalvatia rubroflava (Cragin) Lloyd1942H. MoldenkeCoshcoton; N. Appl. Exp. Watershed, near Coshocton
A photograph of the species Tortula obtusifolia, not of this specimenTortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu1846W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1898Williamson, E. B.Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Angelica venenosa, not of this specimenAngelica venenosa (Greenway) Fernald1913Hopkins, L.S.Keene
A photograph of the species Celastrina ladon, not of this specimenCelastrina ladon (Cramer, 1782)1924Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Bedford Twp., Coshocton Co., OH
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio

All 1,293 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blissfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
E.R.Rice QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Coshocton County

Storms nearby

9 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Blissfield in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBlissfield$10,000Trees were blown down on County Road 25.
June 2015Flash FloodBlissfield$5,000Law enforcement reported flash flooding on Route 60 near Blissfield.
March 2008FloodBlissfield$5,000Law enforcement reported that runoff from morning rain flooded a portion of SR-60 north of Warsaw.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBlissfield$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
July 2019Flash FloodBlissfield$1,000Flooding was reported on County Road 49 via social media.
April 2024Flash FloodBlissfield-State Road 60 due to high water.
July 2003HailBlissfield-Golf ball size hail on Twp Rd 26, 3 miles south of Blissfield.
June 2013HailBlissfield-no account filed
June 2013HailBlissfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coshocton 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Helmick1.4 miles17
Metham2.4 miles16
Layland2.5 miles17
Spring Mountain4.6 miles10
Clark4.8 miles17
Warsaw5.0 miles11
New Princeton5.1 miles10
White Womans Town (historical)5.3 miles16

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 BlissfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4926886The 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 1038117. 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.