Lafferty, Ohio

Lafferty fell from 304 to 255 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 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1962

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.

• 1903 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Bethesda quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Bethesda quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Bethesda quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lafferty between 2002 and 2020, burning about 48 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Donnersville
• Lloydsville
• Oco
• Uniontown
• Great Western
• Bannock

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Museums hold 167 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lafferty between 1877 and 1974: 133 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, CL & LC Hubbs, Collector(s): Jim L. Hayward; Preparator(s): Jim L. Hayward 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
	Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
	Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1971	Cusick, A.W.	disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
	Hamamelis virginiana L.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	St. Clairsville Rd
	Fragaria americana (Porter) Britton	1878	Guttenberg, G.	St. Clairsville
	Fragaria virginiana Mill.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	St. Clairsville
	Rubus odoratus L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	S of Clairsville
	Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1884	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J.	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 167 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Lafferty in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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 Belmont 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 1064960. 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.