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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.

Plainfield within Coshocton County

Population over time

2 figures

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. 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
2010157
2020141-16 (-10%)

Then and now

1909 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Plainfield, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Plainfield, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

Fires nearby

16 since 2005

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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Smoking1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9248
26 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8905
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7872
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11566
15 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7874
15 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7875
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 421 shown

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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1942Harold N. Moldenkenear coshocton
Specimen of Cercospora barbareae (Sacc.) ChuppCercospora barbareae (Sacc.) Chupp1943Lawrence J. King; L.O. OverholtsWatershed 130
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Hemistena lata, not of this specimenHemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lampsilis fasciola, not of this specimenLampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 18201903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Ligumia recta, not of this specimenLigumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton

All 421 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

8 since 2004

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2016Thunderstorm WindPlainfield$5,000Local law enforcement reported trees down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPlainfield$5,000Trees down on County Rd 5 near State Rte 93.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPlainfield$2,000Trees and power lines blown down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPlainfield-Trees reported down across Linton Township.
June 2019Flash FloodPlainfield-Local law enforcement stated that County Road 106 was closed due to high water.
June 2011HailPlainfield-no account filed
June 2009HailPlainfield-no account filed
May 2005HailPlainfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coshocton 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
Stringtown (historical)1.7 miles16
Linton Mills2.8 miles16
Bacon3.1 miles14
Village Court4.8 miles16
West Lafayette4.8 miles16
Isleta4.9 miles16
Flat Iron Corner5.0 miles16
Fairview Manor5.2 miles16

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 PlainfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2062142The 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.