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

Frankfort, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spencer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43558. The Survey maps it on the Berkey quadrangle.

Frankfort within Lucas County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Frankfort, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Frankfort, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

4 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Frankfort between 2012 and 2017, burning about 33 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	4

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
16 April 2017	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8327
8 March 2016	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	3646
11 March 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 February 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	3510

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,628 shown

Museums hold 1,628 specimens collected within 10 miles of Frankfort between 1897 and 1974: 1,450 Animalia, 170 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Lose, A.E. Daugherty, Auten 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
Catocala relicta Walker	1897	John W. Peacock	Swanton Twp., Sec. 17, Oak Openings M.P
Euglesa compressa (Prime, 1852)	1909	not recorded	Upper Swan Creek, Monclova Township
Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)	1913	Goodrich, Calvin	Silica
Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)	1913	Goodrich, Calvin	Silica
Pomatiopsis lapidaria (Say, 1817)	1915	Sterki, Victor	Monclova
Urtica gracilis Aiton	1915	not recorded	Sylvania
Aureolaria pedicularia var. ambigens (Fernald) Farw.	1923	Moseley, E.L.	Monclava
Aletris farinosa L.	1924	Moseley, E.L.	2 mi N of White house
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Swan Creek tributary, within Swanton township, near Swanton, Swanton township
Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Swan Creek, within Springfield township, near Holland, Springfield township
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Swan Creek tributary, within Swanton township, near Swanton, Swanton township
Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Swan Creek, within Swanton township, near Swanton, Swanton township

All 1,628 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 Frankfort: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dorr Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Swanton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Swanton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lucas 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
Sharples	1.4 miles	18
Raab Corners	2.2 miles	18
Wilkins	3.3 miles	15
Arrowhead Lake	3.3 miles	15
Richfield Center	3.5 miles	18
Midway	4.2 miles	15
Garden	4.2 miles	15
East Swanton	4.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064674. 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.