Lafayette, Ohio

Lafayette grew from 202 to 206 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1986

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.

• 1907 USGS London quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS London quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Museums hold 355 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lafayette between 1889 and 1975: 345 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. Fink, Betz, E., Bowen, C. A. (Charles A.) 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
	Chimarra obscura (Walker, 1852)	1898	Scott O'Dee
	Chrysops cincticornis Walker, 1848	1902	not recorded
	Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838	1902	not recorded
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1889	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Spizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Buteo Lacepede, 1799	1894	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Otus asio (Linnaeus, 1758)	1894	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)	1896	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1897	R. Osburn & E. Williamson	Big Darby, Franklin County, Ohio

All 355 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Lafayette in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Madison County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064959. 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.