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

Fargo, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Bennington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43334. It stands on Reynolds Run. The Survey maps it on the Olive Green quadrangle.

Fargo within Morrow County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fargo, surveyed 1966

Topographic sheet of Fargo, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 251 shown

Museums hold 251 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fargo between 1835 and 1973: 153 Animalia, 82 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, Adler, K. K. 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
Phyllosticta ampelopsidis Speschnew	1883	Kellerman	Ohio
Bovistella Morgan	1885	A. P. Morgan
Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, s.loc.
Agaricus velutipes Curtis	1837	J.R. Paddock
Polyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.	1838	not recorded
Usnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.	1838	not recorded
Equisetum arvense L.	1870	Beardslee, H.C.	Moist soil.
Sphaeria ulmea Fr.	1880	W. A. Kellermann	Ohio
Phyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.	1882	Kellerman	Ohio
unnamed	1883	Kellerman	Ohio
Botryotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Ohio

All 251 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Fargo in 1 storm report between 2010 and 2010: 1 tornado. 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
May 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Fargo	$100,000	An EF0 tornado touched down in rural Morrow County just to the southeast of Marengo. The initial touchdown was near the intersection of County Road 212 and Webb Road. The tornado continued east northeast for around two miles before lifting near the intersection of Township Roads 208 and 211. Five homes were damaged and dozens of trees downed along the damage path which was no more than 50 yards in width. Four of the five homes sustained minor damage, mostly from lost shingles or siding. The fifth, a manufactured home, lost most of it's roof and large sections of siding.

Every storm recorded in Morrow 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
Pagetown	0.7 miles	10
Bennington Springs	2.0 miles	9
Marengo	3.1 miles	9
West Liberty	3.4 miles	10
Vails Corners	4.1 miles	10
South Woodbury	4.5 miles	9
Morehouse (historical)	5.0 miles	10
Bloomfield	5.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064638. 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.

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.