Plainfield, Ohio

The 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.

1909 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Thomas Johnson Houselisted 1982

Plainfield 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

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.

• 1909 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1993 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000

Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio :, published 1876; Historical of Coshocton County Ohio, published 1876; History of Coshocton County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, 1740-1881. Containing a Comprehensive History of Ohio; a Complete History of Coshocton County ... a History of Its Soldiers in the Late War ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Linton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Flat Iron Corner
• Isleta
• Shady Bend
• Stringtown (historical)
• Village Court
• West Lafayette

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums 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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The 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.

Every storm recorded in Coshocton 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 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.