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

North Fairfield, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44855. The Survey maps it on the Greenwich quadrangle. 465 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

North Fairfield within Huron County

Population over time

2 figures

North Fairfield fell from 560 to 465 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	560
2020	465	-95 (-17%)

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Fairfield, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of North Fairfield, surveyed 1915

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.

In the county-history sources

2,229 words on this township

History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909 names this settlement in its chapter on Fairfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first store in the township was opened at the center in the year 1831, by Ezra Smith, of Macksville, but soon after several enterprising men made efforts to establish a village at what was then known as Greenfield's corners. They were so far successful as to create all that now exists in North Fairfield, and in fact much more, for the village was at one time a flourishing business center, and had bright prospects of future prosperity. William Greenfield, Samson Baker, Walter Branch and Samuel Foote were largely instrumental in securing the location of various industries at this place. Horace S. Moulton opened the first store at Greenfield's corners, in 1832. Union White, of Fitchville, Woodworth and Holmes, Clark Sexton, A. R. Eastman, and a man by the name of West, began atanearly day. D. 5. Stevens opened a dry goods store in 1838. Manufactories were established, and the village developed for a few years at a rate, which, had it been long continued, would have produced a little city. A newspaper. The Fairfield Gazette, was established, and had, for a time, a fair patronage. The first copy was issued April 23, 1856, by Robert McCune. Afterwards the paper was under the charge of J. Ralph Robinson, and still later of O. B. Chapman. He moved it to Bellevue. The causes of Fairfield's failure to become all that its residents fondly hoped, were numerous. Chief among them was the building of railroads all around the village, at a distance of ten or a dozen miles, and the failure of the projected Clinton extension, which was (upon paper) a link of a long chain extending from New York to the great west. Over seventy thousand dollars of Fairfield money went out of existence with this bubble. The Milan canal was another failure. The largest manufactory in the little village - the chair factory - and the steam mill, built at an early day, vanished in fire - ended in smoke. Other evils assisted in thwarting the plans of the would-be founders of a city, and slowly, but surely, the last hope of making North Fairfield a large and live business town passed away. All that was left the people was the reasonable certainty that the village would always be, what it now is, a peaceful and pleasant home, in which there will never be an excess of bustle and din and sordid strife, but always well being, good manners and better morals.

Passage source: History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909.

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 Fairfield Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 690 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 690 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Fairfield between 1885 and 1974: 512 Plantae, 95 Animalia, 68 Fungi, 15 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Baumgartner, L., C. E. Jennings 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Hemiarcyria stipata (Schwein.) Rostaf., 1876	1885	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum inaequale Peck, 1878	1885	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Chondrioderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Rostaf., 1873	1886	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Trichia proximella P.Karst., 1879	1889	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel., 1792	1889	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 1899	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum ellipsosporum Rostaf., 1876	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum relatum Morgan, 1896	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Calonema aureum Morgan, 1893	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Didymium eximium Peck, 1878	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein., 1805	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum sulphureum Alb. & Schwein., 1805	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston

All 690 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of North Fairfield: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Costein Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Costein Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Price Sand and Gravel Pit Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Price Sand and Gravel Pit Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Fairfield in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	North Fairfield	$30,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated to be at least 60 mph caused some damage in North Fairfield. A home on Main Street lost a large section of roofing. A tree nearby was also toppled knocking down some power lines. The power lines caused a parked car to catch fire. Some other large limbs were reported down across the area.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Fairfield	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	North Fairfield	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of large tree limbs.
August 2011	Hail	North Fairfield	-	Nickel size hail was observed.
April 2006	Hail	North Fairfield	-	Nickel size hail was observed.
May 2006	Hail	North Fairfield	-	Penny size hail was observed.
June 1998	Hail	North Fairfield	-	Large hail (0.75") also fell at Willard.
February 1998	Hail	North Fairfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huron 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Branchwood Estates	0.2 miles	13
Hanville Corners	1.1 miles	13
Boughtonville	3.5 miles	13
Steuben	4.0 miles	13
Peru	4.8 miles	12
Delphi	5.0 miles	13
Olena	5.1 miles	12
Coble Village	5.9 miles	13

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 North Fairfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1817927	The 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 1065166. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.