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

Fayette, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Gorham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43521. The Survey maps it on the Fayette quadrangle. 1,305 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Fayette within Fulton County

Population over time

2 figures

Fayette grew from 1,283 to 1,305 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	1,283
2020	1,305	+22 (+2%)

Then and now

1913 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fayette, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Fayette, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 528 shown

Museums hold 528 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fayette between 1893 and 1974: 524 Animalia, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ALVIN PYLE, CHAS M BUTLER, CLARENCE CLARK 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
Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio
Puccinia menthae Pers.	1893	Fink B.	Fayette
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1909	CHAS M BUTLER	MORENCI
Ambloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
Hybopsis biguttatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
Notropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
Catocala parta Guenée, 1852	1931	W.C. Stinson	Chelsea; 42.318092 -84.020503
Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1932	ALVIN PYLE	3 MI N MORENCI

All 528 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

29 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Fayette in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	$30,000	A 18 inch diameter tree was uprooted, falling onto a house, causing roof damage.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	$10,000	A residential roof was damaged on county road L.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	$5,000	Large limbs were downed, some on power lines.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	$2,000	A large tree limb was down, blocking a road.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Tree down across the road.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Gorham-Fayette fire reported power lines down on State Route 66 in Gorham Township.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Amateur radio operators reported multiple three to four inch tree branches down at the intersection of State Road 66 and US 20.
August 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Fayette	-	Most of the damage surveyed was consistent with an EF0 tornado, but there was a small area of EF1 damage in the middle of the track near the intersection of s. Fayette Street and County Road R. The EF1 damage included several large and healthy tree trunks up to 2 feet in diameter snapped in half. A large branch approximately 10 feet in length and 1 foot diameter was lofted around 15 yards into the side of a house and caused considerable damage to a balcony. Sheet metal roofing was also lofted over 200 yards and caused roof damage to Fayette School. Maximum winds of 85 to 90 mph were estimated.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Trained spotters reported several large six inch or more diameter tree limbs down.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	A trained spotter reported a tree was blown down onto a road with an SUV then striking the tree. No injuries were reported.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Emergency management officials reported tree limbs were blown down.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Emergency management officials reported damage to shipping containers and trucks. The extent of the damage was not given.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
June 2015	Flood	Fayette	-	Numerous roads were closed due to high water for several days as periodic showers and storms slowed water levels from receding.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	A trained spotter reported an eight inch tree limb down onto a house on South Gorham Street.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Emergency management officials reported trees down in the Harrison Lake area. In addition, damage occurred to some trailer campers in adjacent camp grounds.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	A tree was blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Emergency management reported trees down in Fayette.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Emergency manager reported 3 homes evacuated and one person rescued from a vehicle due to fast rising flood waters in Fayette.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Emergency manager reported primary and secondary roads closed due to flooding. Highway 20 closedwith water flowing over it.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Trees blown down.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE TOWN.
August 2020	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
March 2019	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
June 1997	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Zone	3.5 miles	14
Ritters (historical)	3.6 miles	16
Powers	4.1 miles	15
Thelma	5.5 miles	15
Elmira	6.6 miles	14
Burlington	7.0 miles	14
Inlet	7.6 miles	15
Tedrow	8.0 miles	15

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 Fayette	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2395291	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 1064644. 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.