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.
Then and now
1909 to 1992The 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.


Compare 1909 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
4 since 2009The 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 burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15708 |
| 15 April 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15709 |
| 1 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15969 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,855 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 | 1884 | F. S. Robinson | |
![]() | Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822 | 1893 | unknown | Licking Reservoir |
![]() | Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc. | 1893 | J.B. Ellis | Granville |
![]() | Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth. | 1843 | Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
![]() | Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1843 | A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio |
![]() | Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1872 | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1881 | not recorded | Buckeye Lake, Licking, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Caeoma podophyllatum Schwein. | 1890 | not recorded | Granville |
![]() | Aecidium impatientis Sacc. | 1893 | not recorded | Granville |
![]() | Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst., 1886 | 1893 | Jones, H.L. | Granville, Ohio. |
![]() | Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899 | 1893 | Morgan, A. P. | Granville, O. |
![]() | Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev. | 1893 | H. L. Jones |
All 1,855 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
17 since 1997The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Buckeye Lake | $20,000 | Heavy rain caused water to enter the lower level of a home. Multiple roads were also closed in the area. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckeye Lake | $10,000 | A pine tree fell on a house, causing minor structural damage. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Buckeye Lake | $10,000 | Several trees and large limbs were also knocked down. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckeye Lake | $8,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down in the Buckeye Lake area. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckeye Lake | $5,000 | Several trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. One of the trees fell onto a house. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Buckeye Lake | $5,000 | Numerous roads flooded due to heavy rainfall moving over already saturated ground. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckeye Lake | $3,000 | Two trees were knocked down. Penny size hail also occurred. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Buckeye Lake | $1,000 | Several roads remained closed in the area due to heavy rain. |
| November 2007 | Hail | Buckeye Lake | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Buckeye Lake | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckeye Lake | $250 | A tree was reported knocked down. |
| July 2025 | Flood | Buckeye Lake | - | Several inches of standing water was reported at the Buckeye Lake Columbus East KOA Campground. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Buckeye Lake | - | Water was flowing over several roads in the Buckeye Lake area, including a portion of State Route 79. |
| July 2014 | Flood | Buckeye Lake | - | High water was reported on several roads in the Buckeye Lake area. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Buckeye Lake | - | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Hail | Buckeye Lake | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Buckeye Lake | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow (historical) | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Harbor Hills | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Hollywood by the Lake | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Hebron | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Atherton | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Edgewater Beach | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Luray | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Jacksontown | 3.6 miles | 14 |
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.

























