Octa, Ohio

Octa fell from 59 to 58 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.

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1916 1986

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.

• 1916 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Jasper Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 82 specimens collected within 10 miles of Octa between 1882 and 1974: 69 Animalia, 7 Fungi, 6 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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
	Podosphaera clandestina var. clandestina (Wallr.) Lév.	1882	Kellerman, W.A.	America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae.
	Spiraea tomentosa L.	1882	Kellerman, W.A.	America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae.
	Phellinus ferruginosus (Schrad.) Pat.	1898	Lloyd, C.G.	College Hill, Ohio
	Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1901	Hartley C. P.	Sabina
	Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1907	Hegler, A. (Almer)	Fairview, Fayette, Ohio, USA
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1907	Hegler, A. (Almer)	Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
	Buteo lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin, 1788)	1907	Hegler, A. (Almer)	Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
	Falco rusticolus obsoletus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)	1907	Hegler, A. (Almer)	Washington C.H., Fayette, Ohio, USA
	Tiphiidae	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Madison, Fayette Co., Ohio, USA
	Opsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 1881	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Sugar Creek, near NE corner of Clinton County OH locality is approximate based off Fishes of Ohio distribution map
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
	Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio

All 82 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Octa in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 Fayette County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065190. 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.

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.