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.
Then and now
1907 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Kinsman quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Kinsman quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
1 since 2020The 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 burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15692 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 186 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter | 1910 | E.B. | Johnston |
![]() | Saxifraga virginiensis Michx. | 1893 | Chamberlin, Earl | Cortland |
![]() | Perlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862) | 1899 | R. C. Osburn | Fowlerville |
![]() | Guignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz | 1905 | Spencer, L. G. | |
![]() | Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni | 1905 | Spencer, L. G. | |
![]() | Pseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Rostovzev | 1905 | Spencer, L. G. | |
![]() | Ramularia tulasnei Sacc. | 1905 | Spencer L. G. | Trumbull Co. |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1915 | not recorded | No Further Locality Data |
![]() | Eurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818) | 1915 | not recorded | No Further Locality Data |
![]() | Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801) | 1915 | not recorded | No Further Locality Data |
![]() | Lithobates sylvaticus (LeConte, 1825) | 1915 | not recorded | No Further Locality Data |
![]() | Nerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1915 | not recorded | No Further Locality Data |
All 186 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 1996The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. A small garage was also knocked down. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | Trees downed in Hartford. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antietam (historical) | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Brockway (historical) | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Five Points | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Weldon | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Yankee Lake | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Orangeville | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Burghill | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Nutwood | 3.6 miles | 12 |
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 Hartford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q12833451 | 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 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.
























