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

Fair Oaks, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45694. It lies in Mansfield Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle.

Fair Oaks within Scioto County

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 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 Oaks, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Fair Oaks, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

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 1903 county history

4,598 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Harrison Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Harrison Township - 4,598 words.

Fires nearby

83 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Fair Oaks between 1997 and 2020, burning about 408 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
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
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1821
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8765
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15223
26 August 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2019Fireworksunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15211
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15795

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 604 shown

Museums hold 604 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fair Oaks between 1884 and 1975: 535 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 31 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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 Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884H. MoresScioto River
Specimen of Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Cylindrocladium scoparium MorganCylindrocladium scoparium Morgan1893A.P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Campeloma Rafinesque, not of this specimenCampeloma Rafinesque, 18191885Ch. R. OrcuttScioto River
A photograph of the species Harpographium fasciculatum, not of this specimenHarpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.1887A.P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Puccinia recondita, not of this specimenPuccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.1889Craig M.Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
Specimen of Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 18291896not recordedScioto River
unnamed1897MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
Specimen of Peronospora polygoni Halst.Peronospora polygoni Halst.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 604 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fair Oaks: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. 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
Sciotoville ClayIron, Aluminum, Silica, TitaniumOccurrence1861
Cunningham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frankfort Mtls. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Scioto 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
Rigrish Addition0.9 miles12
Slocum Heights0.9 miles12
Slocum1.0 miles12
Camp Bennett1.3 miles12
Highland Bend1.8 miles12
Happy Hours Addition1.8 miles12
Gephart2.4 miles12
Sciotodale2.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075821. 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.