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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Lake 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.

Lake Fork within Ashland County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Lake Fork, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lake Fork, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 sheets

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 289 shown

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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) DouinAnthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin1923Mrs. Bayard R. Taylornear Londonville
A photograph of the species Agastache scrophulariifolia, not of this specimenAgastache scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze1896not recordedLakeville
A photograph of the species Coreopsis tripteris, not of this specimenCoreopsis tripteris L.1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Decodon verticillatus, not of this specimenDecodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Polygonum coccineum, not of this specimenPolygonum coccineum f. terrestre (Willd.) Stanford1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Pontederia cordata, not of this specimenPontederia cordata L.1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Smith, D. W.Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Danthonia spicata, not of this specimenDanthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.1897Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyVermilion Township
A photograph of the species Perlinella ephyre, not of this specimenPerlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839)1899R.C. Osburn
A photograph of the species Tyto alba, not of this specimenTyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)1900Fuller, W. J.Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
Equisetum × ferrissii Clute1908Hopkins, L.S.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Calopogon tuberosus, not of this specimenCalopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus1909Hopkins, L.S.Round Lake

All 289 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2023

The National Weather Service names Lake Fork in 1 storm report between 2023 and 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023FloodLake 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.

Every storm recorded in Ashland County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Spreng2.3 miles11
Mohicanville3.0 miles13
McZena3.6 miles13
Jeromesville4.8 miles11
McKay6.1 miles13
Hayesville6.6 miles15
Treaton7.2 miles11
Rowsburg7.6 miles11

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.