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

Oakgrove, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Londonderry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43983. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle.

Oakgrove within Guernsey County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oakgrove, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Oakgrove, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1911 county history

573 words on this township

The county history of 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Londonderry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Londonderry Township - 573 words.

Fires nearby

6 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Oakgrove between 2005 and 2019, burning about 14 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2019Debris and open burning5.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15045
23 March 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15022
22 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 21 shown

Museums hold 21 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oakgrove between 1925 and 1974: 14 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Adams, S., Adams, William; Adams, Sue, Borror, K. G. (Kathy G.) 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
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Notropis buccatus, not of this specimenNotropis buccatus (Cope, 1865)1925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Phoxinus erythrogaster, not of this specimenPhoxinus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus natalis, not of this specimenIctalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township

All 21 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Oakgrove in 1 storm report between 2016 and 2016: 1 hail. 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 2016HailOakgrove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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
Londonderry3.9 miles16
Antrim7.0 miles16
Middlebourne8.4 miles16
Winterset10.3 miles17
Birmingham11.3 miles17
Elizabethtown11.9 miles17
Quaker City12.4 miles12
Spencer Station12.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065184. 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.