Plainfield, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Linton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43812. It stands on Bacon Run. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle. 141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPlainfield fell from 157 to 141 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 | 157 | |
| 2020 | 141 | -16 (-10%) |
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 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
16 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.
- 1909 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
16 since 2005The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Plainfield between 2005 and 2020, burning about 175 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 | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9248 |
| 26 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8905 |
| 8 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7872 |
| 21 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11566 |
| 15 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7874 |
| 15 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7875 |
| 13 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 421 shownMuseums hold 421 specimens collected within 10 miles of Plainfield between 1892 and 1974: 300 Animalia, 88 Plantae, 29 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Spreitzer, Barnes, R.C. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Medicago lupulina L. | 1942 | Harold N. Moldenke | near coshocton |
![]() | Cercospora barbareae (Sacc.) Chupp | 1943 | Lawrence J. King; L.O. Overholts | Watershed 130 |
![]() | Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1892 | No Person (Birds) | Coshocton Co |
![]() | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1892 | No Person (Birds) | Coshocton Co |
![]() | Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818 | 1903 | Sterki, Victor | Coshocton |
![]() | Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1903 | Sterki, Victor | Coshocton |
![]() | Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1903 | Sterki, Victor | Coshocton |
![]() | Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1903 | Sterki, Victor | Coshocton |
![]() | Hemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1903 | Sterki, Victor | Coshocton |
![]() | Lampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 1820 | 1903 | Sterki, Victor | Coshocton |
![]() | Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1903 | Sterki, Victor | Coshocton |
![]() | Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819) | 1903 | Sterki, Victor | Coshocton |
All 421 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
8 since 2004The National Weather Service names Plainfield in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainfield | $5,000 | Local law enforcement reported trees down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainfield | $5,000 | Trees down on County Rd 5 near State Rte 93. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainfield | $2,000 | Trees and power lines blown down. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainfield | - | Trees reported down across Linton Township. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Plainfield | - | Local law enforcement stated that County Road 106 was closed due to high water. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Plainfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Plainfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Plainfield | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stringtown (historical) | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| Linton Mills | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Bacon | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Village Court | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| West Lafayette | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Isleta | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Flat Iron Corner | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Fairview Manor | 5.2 miles | 16 |
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 Plainfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2062142 | 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 1061548. 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.



























