Oakland, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1992

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.

• 1914 USGS Circleville quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Circleville quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Stoutsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Stoutsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Stoutsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Stoutsville quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Oakland between 2006 and 2020, burning about 19 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Drinkle
• New Strasburg
• Amanda
• Clearport
• Millers (historical)
• Delmont

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Museums hold 734 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oakland between 1876 and 1975: 563 Animalia, 136 Fungi, 30 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beier, M., Borror, D. J. (Donald J.), C F WALKER 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
	Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.	1892	W.A. Kellerman
	Catocala marmorata Edwards, 1864	1876	not recorded	Southern Ohio
	Bartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr	1880	W. Kellerman
	Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.	1882	W. Kellerman
	Anomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor	1882	W. A. Kellerman
	Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1882	W. A. Kellerman
	Auricularia auricula (L.) Underw.	1882	W. A. Kellerman
	Bisporella pallescens (Pers.) S.E.Carp. & Korf	1882	W. A. Kellerman	Amanda.
	Dicranum scoparium Hedw.	1882	W. Kellerman	Amanda
	Entodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.	1882	W. A. Kellerman
	Aecidium Pers.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
	Aecidium cimicifugatum (Schwein.) Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Near Amanda

All 734 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Oakland in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065187. 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.