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

Oakland, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45177. It stands on Dutch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clarksville quadrangle.

Oakland within Clinton County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oakland, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Oakland, surveyed 1907

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

13,296 words on this township

The History of Clinton County, Ohio, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Chester Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In February, 1838, William Birdaall (a first cousin of James and David) came to this township, accompanied by his wife and seven children. He purchased two of the farms formerly owned by James Birdsall, and settled in the brick house before mentioned. He laid out the present village of Oakland, on the west side of the original town plat. The village is and has been for years a post office town, and in its best days contained, among other industries, two stores. Though not recognized by the census department in 1870,* yet upward of forty souls reside therein.

Passage source: The History of Clinton County, Ohio, published 1882.

This is the history of Caesar Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends. Time,, on its relentless wings, has flown on, and seventy-two years have gone since then, and with them all those who assembled there on that occasion. In 1849, the present frame building was erected, and meetings are held there on the first and fifth days of each week. If we turn to the graveyard hard- by and examine the silent marble, we find these names:

Passage source: The History of Clinton County, Ohio, published 1882.

It will be a difficult matter for me, in the absence of exact data, to settle upon the earliest road traversing our corporate limits. I am of the opinion, however, from what information I can get, that the first one to be laid out for that purpose was the one from Waynesville to Wilmington. Tradition says, in a very early day the road from Waynesville to Wilmington passed north of where Harveysburg now is, north of the McIntyre Tavern to Oakland, thence by way of Centre to Wilmington; that it was a perfectly straight lino, blazed by an Indian, who received for so doing one gallon of whisky. But let this be

Passage source: The History of Clinton County, Ohio, published 1882.

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 Chester Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 489 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 489 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oakland between 1911 and 1974: 423 Animalia, 55 Fungi, 8 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, A. (Avery) 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
Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Snell	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Boletus bicolor Raddi	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)	1911	not recorded	Clinton, North America
Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Wilmington
Corydalus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1920	E. C. Stinson	Harveysburg
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.J.	Wilmington
Parmelia Acharius, 1803	1924	Taylor, L.	Wilmington
Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf	1924	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map
Mustela frenata Lichtenstein, 1831	1927	Hazard, F. O.	Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1929	Hazard, F. O.	near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio

All 489 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$7,000	A roof was blown off of a barn.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$5,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$4,000	A large tree and power lines were downed along State Route 73, between I-71 and Dutch Creek.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$2,000	Several trees were split and an outdoor above ground pool was damaged.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$1,500	A tree was knocked down across Smith Road.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$1,000	A large tree was downed at a property on State Route 73.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$1,000	A large tree was downed on State Route 73 near Williams Road.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakland	$1,000	A large tree was knocked down in the Oakland area.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Oakland	-	About a foot of water was rapidly flowing across State Route 73.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Oakland	-	Significant ponding and water over the road at State Route 380 south of Route 73 due to torrential rain.
July 2014	Hail	Oakland	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Oakland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Kingman	1.9 miles	15
Little Center	2.3 miles	14
North Kingman	2.5 miles	15
Sligo	2.9 miles	13
Gurneyville	2.9 miles	15
Ogden	3.6 miles	13
Town And Country Estates	4.3 miles	14
McKays	4.3 miles	15

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 Oakland	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18355729	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 1080504. 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.