BlockLake Fork, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mohican Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44840. It stands on Muddy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Loudonville quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Lake Fork
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Lakefork Schoollisted 1982 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed 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.
- 1912 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
121,491 words on this townshipA History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863 names this settlement in its chapter on Mohican Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Between the years 1832 and 1846, Revs. Robert Fulton, Samuel Fulton, and Sanders Diefendorf (I depend for this statement upon recollection) acted successively as stated supply to the church of Jeromeville. In 1846, Rev. W. W. Colmery became its pastor for one-half his time, and continued to be so until in the year 1854. Since that time to the present, I am unable to state, definitely, whether it has had any but occasional supplies granted by Presbytery.
Passage source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863.
The Indians in the neighborhood at this time were an intermixture of several tribes - the Mohicans, Delawares, Wyandottes, Shawnees, Chickasaws, and one or two who claimed to be of the Cherokee tribe. They were friendly and harmless, until the war of 1812 commenced, when the main body of them disappeared, and most of them, it is supposed, became attached to the British service.
Passage source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863.
The first year or two after Mr. Finley came to the country, he obtained his supplies of flour and corn meal from Shrlmplin's mill, below Mt. Vernon. This journey to the mill was performed in canoes or pirogues, down the Lake Fork and Mohican, and up Owl Creek, and occupied about three days for the trip. These vessels would carry from twenty to fifty bushels of corn meal.
Passage source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Mohican Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 289 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 289 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lake Fork between 1896 and 1975: 256 Animalia, 33 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B.H., L.A. & H.H., B.H., M.H. & H.P., Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin | 1923 | Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor | near Londonville |
 | Agastache scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze | 1896 | not recorded | Lakeville |
 | Coreopsis tripteris L. | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Decodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Polygonum coccineum f. terrestre (Willd.) Stanford | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Pontederia cordata L. | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1897 | Smith, D. W. | Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA |
 | Danthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult. | 1897 | Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley | Vermilion Township |
 | Perlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839) | 1899 | R.C. Osburn | |
 | Tyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838) | 1900 | Fuller, W. J. | Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA |
| Equisetum × ferrissii Clute | 1908 | Hopkins, L.S. | Lakeville | |
 | Calopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus | 1909 | Hopkins, L.S. | Round Lake |
All 289 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Fork in 1 storm report in 2023: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Flood | Lake Fork | - | Continued areal flooding across northern Ashland County through the morning hours of August 24, 2023 due to heavy rainfall that began the previous evening. Widespread road closures continued due to flooding of creeks, streams, and rivers. Flooding was prolonged due to additional brief heavy rainfall during the mid morning hours of August 24, 2023. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spreng | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Mohicanville | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| McZena | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Jeromesville | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| McKay | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Hayesville | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Treaton | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Rowsburg | 7.6 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064962. 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.