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

Bloomfield, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Highland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43762. The Survey maps it on the Bloomfield quadrangle.

Bloomfield within Muskingum 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 Bloomfield, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bloomfield, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

29 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield between 2009 and 2020, burning about 55 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15863
13 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13685
20 April 2017Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7926
18 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4405

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,092 shown

Museums hold 1,092 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bloomfield between 1908 and 1975: 785 Animalia, 301 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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 Catocala amatrix Hübner, 1813Catocala amatrix Hübner, 18131954Betty DaschNew Concord
Specimen of Catocala cara Guenée, 1852Catocala cara Guenée, 18521954Betty DaschNew Concord
A photograph of the species Bubo virginianus, not of this specimenBubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1908A. H. WrightNew Concord
A photograph of the species Medicago sativa, not of this specimenMedicago sativa L.1911Coleman, J.New Concord
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Neiswender, M. D. (Mary D.)Perry Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1931Neiswender, M. D. (Mary D.)Perry Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1933Hope, C ENew Concord
A photograph of the species Chondestes grammacus, not of this specimenChondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)1933Hope, C ENew Concord
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor flaviventris Say, 18231933Hope, C.E.New Concord
A photograph of the species Geothlypis formosa, not of this specimenGeothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811)1933Hope, C ENew Concord
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1933Hope, C ENew Concord
Allocapnia recta (Claassen, 1924)1935H.H. Ross

All 1,092 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bloomfield: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Westland QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Westland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms nearby

5 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Bloomfield in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Bloomfield$400,000An NWS damage survey confirmed that an EF-0 tornado, with winds |peaking near 85 mph, tracked through central Muskingum County on |the evening of April 2, 2024. The length was about 1.21 miles and |the max width was estimated to be 50 yards. This tornado was |associated with the same circulation that initially produced a |tornado about 2 miles north of North Zanesville, OH near the Green|Valley Golf Club. ||Weak tornado damage was noted along Bethel Road and New Hope |Road, with a few trees snapped and roof damage to outbuildings. |All the structures that were damaged were in open fields. ||The tornado lifted around 8:51 pm. However, there was a new |circulation in Guernsey County, OH along Cowden Road that produced|EF-1 damage.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$10,000Trees were blown down in the area east of Adamsville.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$10,000A house was damaged by thunderstorm winds.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBloomfield$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees onto power lines.
June 2003Flash FloodBloomfield-Flooding on Lower Bloomfield Rd, and other rural roads.

Every storm recorded in Muskingum 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
New Concord3.9 miles14
Otsego5.0 miles12
Norwich5.2 miles15
Sundale5.7 miles15
Ferncliff (historical)6.7 miles12
Marquand Mills7.2 miles14
Adamsville7.5 miles15
Spencer7.7 miles15

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 BloomfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133564The 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 1064452. 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.