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

Fair Oak, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45102. The Survey maps it on the Laurel quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fair Oak within Clermont County

Then and now

1931 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fair Oak (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Fair Oak (historical), surveyed 1931

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the 1891 county history

976 words on this township

The county history of 1891 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Monroe Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Monroe Township - 976 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fair Oak (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clermont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 995 shown

Museums hold 995 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fair Oak (historical) between 1866 and 1975: 766 Animalia, 183 Fungi, 34 Plantae, 11 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND R KNOTTS, A JOHN AND T RITTER 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 Apophthisis pullata Braun, 1915Apophthisis pullata Braun, 19151929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1866Mohr, C.Bantam
A photograph of the species Asarum canadense, not of this specimenAsarum canadense L.1877Mohr, MarieClermont County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Leiothlypis peregrina, not of this specimenLeiothlypis peregrina (A.Wilson, 1811)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanLocust Corner
A photograph of the species Vireo griseus, not of this specimenVireo griseus noveboracensis (Gmelin, 1789)1879Freeman, L.Locust Corner, Clermont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Geastrum lageniforme, not of this specimenGeastrum lageniforme Vittad.1882Carley S. T.
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Liobunum Agassiz, not of this specimenLiobunum Agassiz, 18461890[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Mammuthus primigenius, not of this specimenMammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) (fossil)1900not recorded
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821904Lindahl, J. (Joshua)Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1909Braun, E. Lucy9-mile road in Ninemile
A photograph of the species Bryum argenteum, not of this specimenBryum argenteum Hedw.1909Braun, E. Lucy9-mile road in Ninemile

All 995 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Wiltsee0.7 miles19
Hulington1.0 miles12
Mount Holly1.2 miles19
South Bantam1.7 miles12
Bantam1.8 miles12
Lindale1.9 miles12
Hamlet2.1 miles19
Nicholsville2.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067505. 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.