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

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.

Oakshade within Fulton County

Then and now

1911 to 1990

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 Oakshade, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Oakshade, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Fires nearby

2 since 2007

The 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
29 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,061 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Edward WilkinsonWauseon
A photograph of the species Puccinia menthae, not of this specimenPuccinia menthae Pers.1893Fink B.Fayette
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Gomphus fraternus, not of this specimenGomphus fraternus (Say, 1840)1898J. HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Sympetrum corruptum, not of this specimenSympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861)1898J. HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Parus atricapillus, not of this specimenParus atricapillus Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631902not recordedWauseon
Pucciniastrum agrimoniae (Dietel) Tranzschel1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Pucciniastrum americanum, not of this specimenPucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur1902W.A. Kellerman
Sarcophaga spatulata Aldrich, 19161902HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Tamias striatus, not of this specimenTamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA

All 1,061 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

11 since 1995

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOakshade$10,000The top of a barn was taken off with trees down in the area.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOakshade-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 2020HailOakshade-Report from MPing.
April 2020HailOakshade-Golf ball size hail reported through MPing.
April 2020HailOakshade-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindOakshade-Spotter reported three large tree limbs were snapped.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOakshade-A trained spotter reported a tree was blown down onto a local road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindOakshade-A trained spotter measured wind gusts to 60 mph.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOakshade-Emergency management officials reported trees down at the intersection of County Road 16 and M.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOakshade-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 1995Thunderstorm WindOakshade-Winds of 60 mph were reported. A large tree was downed, taking down some power lines.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Inlet2.0 miles15
Denson2.5 miles15
Advance2.9 miles15
Thelma4.4 miles15
Ottokee4.7 miles15
Ottokee Station4.8 miles15
Lyons4.8 miles15
Powers5.2 miles15

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 OakshadeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23018015The 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.