Oakshade, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Chesterfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43567. The Survey maps it on the Morenci quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 1990The 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 sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1911 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Morenci quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Morenci quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Morenci quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
2 since 2007The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Oakshade between 2007 and 2011, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,061 shownMuseums hold 1,061 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oakshade between 1893 and 1975: 1,043 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ALVIN PYLE, CHAS M BUTLER, CLARENCE CLARK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Edward Wilkinson | Wauseon |
![]() | Puccinia menthae Pers. | 1893 | Fink B. | Fayette |
![]() | Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Gomphus fraternus (Say, 1840) | 1898 | J. Hine | Wauseon |
![]() | Sympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861) | 1898 | J. Hine | Wauseon |
![]() | Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766 | 1899 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863 | 1902 | not recorded | Wauseon |
| Pucciniastrum agrimoniae (Dietel) Tranzschel | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
![]() | Pucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur | 1902 | W.A. Kellerman | |
| Sarcophaga spatulata Aldrich, 1916 | 1902 | Hine | Wauseon | |
![]() | Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
All 1,061 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
11 since 1995The National Weather Service names Oakshade in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakshade | $10,000 | The top of a barn was taken off with trees down in the area. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakshade | - | A trained spotter reported three tree limbs ranging from one to two feet in diameter as well as a smaller branch were blown down. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Oakshade | - | Report from MPing. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Oakshade | - | Golf ball size hail reported through MPing. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Oakshade | - | A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakshade | - | Spotter reported three large tree limbs were snapped. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakshade | - | A trained spotter reported a tree was blown down onto a local road. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakshade | - | A trained spotter measured wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakshade | - | Emergency management officials reported trees down at the intersection of County Road 16 and M. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakshade | - | Emergency management officials reported a house trailer suffered roof damage on County Road N between County Roads 16 and 16-3. Trees were also observed down in the area. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakshade | - | Winds of 60 mph were reported. A large tree was downed, taking down some power lines. |
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.
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 Oakshade | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23018015 | 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 1057891. 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.
























