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Hartford, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hartford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44404. The Survey maps it on the Orangeville quadrangle. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Hartford within Trumbull County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hartford, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hartford, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hartford between 2020 and 2020, burning about 1 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15692

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 186 shown

Museums hold 186 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hartford between 1893 and 1975: 148 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Almon N. Rood, Bednarik, K. (Karl), Brown, Fred 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 Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) TrotterGymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter1910E.B.Johnston
A photograph of the species Saxifraga virginiensis, not of this specimenSaxifraga virginiensis Michx.1893Chamberlin, EarlCortland
A photograph of the species Perlesta decipiens, not of this specimenPerlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1899R. C. OsburnFowlerville
A photograph of the species Guignardia bidwellii, not of this specimenGuignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Plasmopara viticola, not of this specimenPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Pseudoperonospora cubensis, not of this specimenPseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Rostovzev1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1905Spencer L. G.Trumbull Co.
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates sylvaticus, not of this specimenLithobates sylvaticus (LeConte, 1825)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Nerodia sipedon, not of this specimenNerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data

All 186 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Hartford in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 3 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHartford$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. A small garage was also knocked down.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindHartford-Trees downed in Hartford.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindHartford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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
Antietam (historical)2.2 miles13
Brockway (historical)2.4 miles13
Five Points2.6 miles13
Weldon2.6 miles13
Yankee Lake3.1 miles13
Orangeville3.2 miles13
Burghill3.3 miles13
Nutwood3.6 miles12

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 HartfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12833451The 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 1064804. 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.