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.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
14 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.
- 1903 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
In the 1911 county history
573 words on this townshipThe 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 2005The 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15045 |
| 23 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15022 |
| 22 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 21 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
![]() | Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
![]() | Notropis buccatus (Cope, 1865) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
![]() | Phoxinus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
![]() | Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
![]() | Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
![]() | Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township |
![]() | Ictalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township |
![]() | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Salt Fork, within Oxford township, near Quaker City, Oxford township |
![]() | Percina maculata (Girard, 1859) | 1929 | Trautman, 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 2016The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Hail | Oakgrove | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Londonderry | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Antrim | 7.0 miles | 16 | |
| Middlebourne | 8.4 miles | 16 | |
| Winterset | 10.3 miles | 17 | |
| Birmingham | 11.3 miles | 17 | |
| Elizabethtown | 11.9 miles | 17 | |
| Quaker City | 12.4 miles | 12 | |
| Spencer Station | 12.5 miles | 12 |
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.

























