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

Fairfax, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45133. The Survey maps it on the Belfast quadrangle.

Fairfax within Highland County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fairfax, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Fairfax, surveyed 1917

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

9 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fairfax between 2004 and 2020, burning about 19 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15625
4 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15598
19 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 March 2006	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 February 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 February 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15940

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 578 shown

Museums hold 578 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fairfax between 1895 and 1973: 513 Animalia, 50 Plantae, 15 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14521, A W SHARER, A. Braun 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Aecidium asterum Schwein.	1895	F.L. Stevens
Puccinia podophylli Schwein.	1895	F. L. Stevens	Highland County
Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner	1913	Bruce Fink	Serpent Mound
Dizygopleura Ulrich & Bassler, 1923 (fossil)	1921	Bucher & E. Ulrich	.5mi W Of Sinking Spring (Thin Cherty Layer In Lower Part Of Bisher Member)
Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Cololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans	1924	M. A. Taylor
Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi	1924	M. A. Taylor
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1926	not recorded
Pipistrellus subflavus (F.Cuvier, 1832)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Paint Twp. Dry Cave, Highland Co., Ohio, USA
Eptesicus fuscus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796)	1928	Trautman & Hine	Bainbridge Caves, Highland Co., Ohio, USA

All 578 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Fairfax in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$3,000	Trees were downed.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$2,000	One large tree and several large branches were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$1,000	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Fairfax	-	Fair Ridge Road was impassible due to high water as deep as one foot.

Every storm recorded in Highland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Belfast	3.1 miles	14
Folsom	3.3 miles	14
Sugar Tree Ridge	4.2 miles	14
Berrysville	5.8 miles	14
North Uniontown	5.9 miles	16
Prospect	6.1 miles	14
Sorg (historical)	6.3 miles	14
Harriett	7.3 miles	16

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Fairfax	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24898051	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1040306. 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.