Jefferson Woods, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Violet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43110. It stands on Coyote Run. The Survey maps it on the Carroll quadrangle.
Then and now
1907 to 1984The 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 sheets covering this place
12 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 Thurston quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Thurston quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
In the 1901 county history
6,886 words on this townshipThe county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Violet Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Violet Township - 6,886 words.
Fires nearby
2 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson Woods between 2012 and 2020, burning about 25 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Wayne National Forest | SR 522 |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15924 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,771 shownMuseums hold 1,771 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jefferson Woods between 1859 and 1975: 1,677 Animalia, 57 Fungi, 37 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bales, B. R., Birch, W., Bitterly, K. (Kermit) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur | 1891 | Freda Detmers | Rock Mill |
![]() | Trypethelium virens Tuck. | 1898 | Ernst E. Bogue | |
![]() | Anas discors Linnaeus, 1766 | 1859 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Buckeye Lake "Middle Bank", Fairfield, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1874 | not recorded | Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio, USA |
| Erysiphe cichoracearum DC. | 1882 | Kellerman W. A. | Fairfield Co. | |
| Gnomonia sassafras Ellis & Everh. | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
| Leptostroma vulgare Fr. | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
| Leptostromataceae | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann | ||
![]() | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Septoria E.M.Fries, 1819 | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | |
| Septoria polygonorum Desm. | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
| Septoria westendorpii Sacc. | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman |
All 1,771 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodstream | 0.8 miles | 16 | |
| Lockville Station | 0.8 miles | 12 | |
| Lockville | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Jefferson | 2.3 miles | 16 | |
| Chester Heights | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Pickerington | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Winchester Trace | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Beals | 2.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2771444. 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.

















