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

Moores Fork, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45118. The Survey maps it on the Newtonsville quadrangle.

Moores Fork within Clermont County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moores Fork, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Moores Fork, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

In the 1891 county history

746 words on this township

The county history of 1891 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wayne Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wayne Township - 746 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 298 shown

Museums hold 298 specimens collected within 10 miles of Moores Fork between 1915 and 1975: 142 Fungi, 131 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND R KNOTTS, A JOHN AND T RITTER 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 Xylaria Hill ex Schrank, 1789Xylaria Hill ex Schrank, 17891929Braun, E. LucyGoshen
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1915Fulford, MargaretBlowville Flats
A photograph of the species Lobaria pulmonaria, not of this specimenLobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.1916Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
A photograph of the species Ilex verticillata, not of this specimenIlex verticillata (L.) A.Gray1918Braun, E. LucyGoshen
A photograph of the species Leptogium corticola, not of this specimenLeptogium corticola (Taylor) Tuck.1920Braun, E. LucyNewtown (Newtonsville)
A photograph of the species Flavoparmelia caperata, not of this specimenFlavoparmelia caperata (L.) Hale1922Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
A photograph of the species Peltigera polydactylon, not of this specimenPeltigera polydactylon (Neck.) Hoffm.1922Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
A photograph of the species Physcia Michx., not of this specimenPhyscia (Schreb.) Michx., 18031922Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
Physcia millegrana Degel.1922Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
A photograph of the species Hirneola auricula-judae, not of this specimenHirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.1926s.c.Goshen
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1928Fulford, Margaret HannahGoshen
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.

All 298 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Moores Fork in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Moores Fork$30,000The tornado blew down two high voltage towers along the Taylor Pike Road and destroyed a metal barn. The debris from the barn was deposited 300 to 400 feet across a field and into a tree line. A couple pieces of debris from the frame of the barn were impaled into the field. There were also some snapped trees and branches down along the tree line. The maximum estimated wind speed based on damage was 85 miles per hour.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMoores Fork$15,000A barn roof was blown off and multiple trees were knocked down.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMoores Fork$15,000The roof of a barn was blown off and multiple trees were knocked down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMoores Fork$10,000A barn roof was partially peeled back and removed.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMoores Fork$10,000A barn roof was damaged. A few trees were also downed nearby.

Every storm recorded in Clermont 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
Lerado1.7 miles15
Woodland Park2.4 miles15
Edenton2.7 miles15
Newtonsville3.5 miles15
Marathon3.7 miles15
Woodville4.1 miles13
Pringle Corners4.4 miles15
Modest4.5 miles15

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Moores ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133995The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065052. 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.