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Oakwood, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oakwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 45419. The Survey maps it on the Dayton South quadrangle. 9,572 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 988 feet above sea level.

Oakwood within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Oakwood grew from 9,202 to 9,572 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20109,202
20209,572+370 (+4%)

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oakwood, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Oakwood, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2016

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The Hawthorn Hill mansion in Oakwood, Ohio
The Hawthorn Hill mansion in Oakwood, Ohio
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 616 shown

Museums hold 616 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oakwood between 1836 and 1975: 463 Animalia, 88 Plantae, 56 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN, A. E. Foeerste 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 Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.1881Foerste AF
Specimen of Geaster limbatus Fr.Geaster limbatus Fr.1883A. E. FoeersteDayton
Specimen of Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr.Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr.1897H. W. Anderson
A photograph of the species Platanthera leucophaea, not of this specimenPlatanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.1836C. W. ShortDayton
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1837van Cleve, John W.3 mi. north of Dayton
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum macrophyllum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt.1838J. W. Van CleveDayton
A photograph of the species Allium canadense, not of this specimenAllium canadense L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
A photograph of the species Cardamine L., not of this specimenCardamine L.1839Sanders, Alfred; J.J. Nagel, J.G. Haupt.Dayton. 1 mile east.
A photograph of the species Cassia marilandica, not of this specimenCassia marilandica L.1839Sanders, AlfredDayton
A photograph of the species Cynoglossum officinale, not of this specimenCynoglossum officinale L.1839not recordedDayton. Suburbs E.
A photograph of the species Iris versicolor, not of this specimenIris versicolor L.1839not recordedDayton. 2 mi. south
A photograph of the species Nuphar advena, not of this specimenNuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton1839Sanders, Mrs.; J.G. HauptDayton

All 616 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 17 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Oakwood: 12 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Broadway Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Broadway Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
East River Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
East River Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hawker and Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hawker and Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jackson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jackson Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moraine Materials Pit No 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moraine Materials Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms nearby

10 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Oakwood in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOakwood$25,000An approximately 4.5 mile swath of intermittent wind damage, mainly to trees, was surveyed. In the Oakwood area, damage was broad and sporadic in nature, centered on Forrer Boulevard but extending several blocks north and south of the boulevard, over a half mile wide at times. Tree damage in this area was mostly comprised of small and large limb breaks, but a few uprooted trees were noted. Tree damage was not determined to be convergent or to have a particularly strong cross-path component when taken in sum, and pointed more to being non-tornadic in nature.||Gaps of more consistent wind damage were evident before another area of more concentrated wind damage in Kettering along Aragon Avenue and Vale Drive, including an apartment complex which had several trees heavily damaged. Like with the Oakwood area damage, little evidence of a concentrated tornadic circulation existed in the tree damage, which again consisted of large broken limbs and a couple uprooted trees.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOakwood$10,000A tree was downed on Shroyer Road and Wonderly Avenue and another was downed on a car near the intersection of Oakdale Avenue and White Oak Drive due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOakwood$5,000A large tree fell into a home on Peach Orchard Avenue.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOakwood$1,000One tree was downed.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOakwood$1,000A large tree was downed.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindOakwood$500Tree limbs, one inch in diameter, were broken off. Also a few shingles were blown off a roof.
June 2025FloodOakwood-High water was reported on Patterson Road east of Kenmore Avenue.
June 2014FloodOakwood-High standing water was covering Patterson Road near Wilmington Pike to due heavy rainfall.
June 2014FloodOakwood-High standing water was covering the road on Yorkshire Place due to thunderstorm winds.
November 2002HailOakwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Southern Hills1.1 miles14
Carmonte1.2 miles14
Far Hills1.3 miles14
Walnut Hills1.5 miles14
Ohmer Park1.6 miles14
South Dale1.7 miles14
Berkley Heights1.8 miles14
Belmont1.8 miles14

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 OakwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2735558The 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 1049033. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.