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

Oceola, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tod Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44849. The Survey maps it on the Oceola quadrangle. 156 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Oceola within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Oceola fell from 190 to 156 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	190
2020	156	-34 (-18%)

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oceola, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Oceola, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 172 shown

Museums hold 172 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oceola between 1842 and 1973: 159 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beal, L. E., Benjamin, J. R., Chase, H. (Hazel) 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
Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1842	William S. Sullivant
Lestes unguiculatus Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township, ditch
Tramea lacerata Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township
Cirriphyllum piliferum (Hedw.) Grout	1842	W. S. Sullivant
Drepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.	1842	W. S. Sullivant
Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1844	not recorded
Gymnoconia interstitialis (Schltdl.) Lagerh.	1906	Hieber Christina	Bucyrus
Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956	1929	MB Trautman	Little Scioto River, west of village of Monnett, Dallas Township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman	Little Scioto River, west of village of Monnett, Dallas Township
Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Scioto River, west of village of Monnett, Dallas Township
Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	MB Trautman	Sandusky River, NE corner of Bucyrus Twp
Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1930	E. Wichliff	Bucyrus Fish Hatchery

All 172 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oceola: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bucyrus Plant & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
	Spore Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms nearby

4 since 2005

The National Weather Service names Oceola in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2012: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Oceola	$800,000	An intense line of thunderstorms or Derecho moved across Crawford County during the afternoon of June 29th causing extensive damage. Winds were estimated to be as much as 70 mph. A 66 mph wind gust was measured in Bucyrus. The southeast corner of the county was the hardest hit. Over 50 percent of residents in southern Crawford County lost power during this event. Power was not completely restored for several days. Hundreds of trees were downed across the county along with many utility poles forcing the closure of some of roads and streets. Damage to homes and buildings was also extensive. Dozens of homes and buildings lost roofing or siding with many other homes damaged by fallen trees. A mobile home was destroyed just to the north of Bucyrus. Clean up costs were extensive. The clean up was hampered by an ongoing heat wave with afternoon temperatures in the upper 90s. Significant crop losses are also expected. Damage from this storm was comparable to the remnants of Hurricane Ike in September 2008.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Oceola	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oceola	$1,000	A few large limbs were reported down.
August 2005	Hail	Oceola	-	Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Glenville (historical)	3.1 miles	11
Spore	3.2 miles	11
Lemert	3.4 miles	10
Benton	5.7 miles	10
Broken Sword	5.9 miles	10
Northwood Estates	6.0 miles	13
Linden Park	6.7 miles	13
Bucyrus	6.8 miles	13

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 Oceola	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472269	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 1049035. 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.