Lafayette, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1994

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.

• 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Leroy quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Westfield Center quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Westfield Center quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Westfield Center quadrangle1:24000

Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861 names this settlement in its chapter on Lafayette Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 340 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lafayette between 1884 and 1975: 317 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05], B Zahuranec & party 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
	Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	not recorded
	Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link	1894	Watson, J.R.	Medina Co.
	Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth	1896	Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08]	[label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
	Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758	1884	unknown	Medina
	Halictus confusus confusus	1885	H. E. Summers	Medina
	Lilium canadense L.	1888	E. Barrick	Chatham
	Plantago cordata Lam.	1891	F. E. Lloyd	Selsville, north of Columbus
	Vicia cracca L.	1895	Selby, A.D.	Lodi
	Aquilegia canadensis L.	1897	Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05]	[label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio]
	Culicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901)	1897	J. Hine	Medina
	Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray	1897	G. B. Ashcroft	Lester
	Hinea Townsend, 1916	1897	J. Hine	Medina

All 340 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lafayette in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash 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 Medina County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061236. 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.