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

Foraker, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lynn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45812. It stands on McCoy Run. The Survey maps it on the Foraker quadrangle.

Foraker within Hardin County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Foraker, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Foraker, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 1883 county history

8,809 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lynn Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lynn Township - 8,809 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 429 shown

Museums hold 429 specimens collected within 10 miles of Foraker between 1885 and 1973: 200 Protozoa, 168 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. P. Morgan, A. P. M. 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 Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.1923W.G. StoverKenton
Specimen of Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1939J. PeltonPond near Kenton
Specimen of unnamed1942?
A photograph of the species Bovistella radicata, not of this specimenBovistella radicata (Durieu & Mont.) Pat.1885A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Gloeophyllum trabeum, not of this specimenGloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill1886A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Craterium leucocephalum, not of this specimenCraterium leucocephalum (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Ditmar, 18131888Morgan, A. P.Ohio: Preston
A photograph of the species Diderma floriforme, not of this specimenDiderma floriforme (Bull.) Pers., 17941888not recordedOhio: Preston
A photograph of the species Calonema aureum, not of this specimenCalonema aureum Morgan, 18931889Morgan, A. P.; Preston, O.
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1889A. P. MorganPreston
Metatrichia vesparia (Batsch) Nann.-Bremek. ex G.W.Martin & Alexop., 19691890Morgan, A. P.; Preston,O.
Physarum serpula Morgan, 18961892Morgan A. P.United States-- Ohio, Preston
Trichia favoginea (Batsch) Pers., 17941892Morgan, A. P.Ohio: Preston

All 429 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Foraker in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2026Thunderstorm WindForaker$5,000A property sustained minor roof damage and also had multiple trees uprooted.
July 2012HailForaker-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
McGuffey2.6 miles16
Walton2.9 miles16
Huntersville3.1 miles16
Jump5.1 miles17
Quickstep5.3 miles16
Blocktown (historical)5.5 miles11
Belmont Court5.6 miles16
Jumbo5.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064663. 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.