Cherry Fork, Ohio

Cherry Fork grew from 155 to 170 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1918 1991

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.

• 1918 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Fork between 2004 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• Eckmansville
• Mount Zion (historical)
• Seaman
• Winchester
• Youngsville
• Evertonville

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 544 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cherry Fork between 1866 and 1975: 324 Animalia, 147 Fungi, 55 Plantae, 18 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist, A. J. Sharp 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
	Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel	1879	A. B. Seymour	Adams County
	Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	W.A. Kellerman
	Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1866	C. B. Dyer
	Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt	1866	C. B. Dyer
	Clavaria formosa Pers.	1913	Fulford, Margaret H.	Adams County, Ohio
	Craterellus Pers.	1913	Braun, E. Lucy	Adams County, Ohio
	Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
	Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.	1925	E. L. Braun	West tributary of Beech Fork
	Crotalus horridus horridus	1926	Watters, G. T. (George Thomas)	Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio
	Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)	1927	not recorded
	Cladonia cristatella Tuck.	1927	Muegel, Harry R.	Adams County, Ohio
	Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1927	Muegel, Harry R.	Adams County, Ohio

All 544 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Fork in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 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.

Every storm recorded in Adams County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060952. 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.