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

Buckeye Lake, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43008. It stands on Crane Island. The Survey maps it on the Thornville quadrangle.

Buckeye Lake within Licking County

Then and now

1909 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Buckeye Lake, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Buckeye Lake, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

4 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Buckeye Lake between 2009 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15708
15 April 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15709
1 March 2009Debris and open burning4.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15969

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,855 shown

Museums hold 1,855 specimens collected within 10 miles of Buckeye Lake between 1843 and 1975: 1,544 Animalia, 243 Fungi, 41 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. W. Lindsey 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 Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581884F. S. Robinson
Specimen of Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822Cylindrosporium Grev., 18221893unknownLicking Reservoir
Specimen of Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
A photograph of the species Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypnum paludosum, not of this specimenHypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Philomachus pugnax, not of this specimenPhilomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Jasper, T. (Theodore)Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Limosa fedoa, not of this specimenLimosa fedoa (Linnaeus, 1758)1881not recordedBuckeye Lake, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Caeoma podophyllatum, not of this specimenCaeoma podophyllatum Schwein.1890not recordedGranville
A photograph of the species Aecidium impatientis, not of this specimenAecidium impatientis Sacc.1893not recordedGranville
A photograph of the species Arcyria denudata, not of this specimenArcyria denudata (L.) Wettst., 18861893Jones, H.L.Granville, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Hemitrichia stipitata, not of this specimenHemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 18991893Morgan, A. P.Granville, O.
Specimen of Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev.Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev.1893H. L. Jones

All 1,855 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

17 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Buckeye Lake in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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
July 2014Flash FloodBuckeye Lake$20,000Heavy rain caused water to enter the lower level of a home. Multiple roads were also closed in the area.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBuckeye Lake$10,000A pine tree fell on a house, causing minor structural damage.
May 2005HailBuckeye Lake$10,000Several trees and large limbs were also knocked down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBuckeye Lake$8,000Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down in the Buckeye Lake area.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBuckeye Lake$5,000Several trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. One of the trees fell onto a house.
June 1997Flash FloodBuckeye Lake$5,000Numerous roads flooded due to heavy rainfall moving over already saturated ground.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindBuckeye Lake$3,000Two trees were knocked down. Penny size hail also occurred.
July 2014Flash FloodBuckeye Lake$1,000Several roads remained closed in the area due to heavy rain.
November 2007HailBuckeye Lake$1,000no account filed
June 2007HailBuckeye Lake$1,000no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBuckeye Lake$250A tree was reported knocked down.
July 2025FloodBuckeye Lake-Several inches of standing water was reported at the Buckeye Lake Columbus East KOA Campground.
July 2017Flash FloodBuckeye Lake-Water was flowing over several roads in the Buckeye Lake area, including a portion of State Route 79.
July 2014FloodBuckeye Lake-High water was reported on several roads in the Buckeye Lake area.
April 2025HailBuckeye Lake-no account filed
March 2024HailBuckeye Lake-no account filed
September 1998HailBuckeye Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Moscow (historical)1.9 miles14
Harbor Hills2.0 miles14
Hollywood by the Lake2.1 miles11
Hebron2.2 miles14
Atherton2.7 miles14
Edgewater Beach3.3 miles14
Luray3.6 miles11
Jacksontown3.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048562. 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.