Polk, Ohio

Polk fell from 336 to 310 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 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1994

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.

• 1906 USGS West Salem quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS West Salem quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Polk quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Polk quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Polk quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Polk between 2019 and 2020, burning about 51 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:

• Albion
• Sullivan
• Redhaw
• Nankin
• Rowsburg

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Museums hold 271 specimens collected within 10 miles of Polk between 1846 and 1973: 237 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Percival, Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea, Auten 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
	Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin	1923	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	near Londonville
	Mediorhynchus grandis Van Cleave, 1916	1846	P. Harwood	Ashland
	Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1897	Smith, D. W.	Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
	Euphorbia maculata L.	1897	Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea	Albion
	Mentha spicata L.	1897	G. B. Ashcroft	Albion
	Smilax tamnoides L.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Red Haw
	Tyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)	1900	Fuller, W. J.	Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
	Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1902	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
	Amphiagrion saucium (Burmeister, 1839)	1916	not recorded	Sullivan
	Conocephalus attenuatus (Scudder, 1869)	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Vermilion River, TR 608 RM 62.1, 1.14 miles west of Savannah OH, Clear Creek township
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1927	not recorded
	Sternotherus odoratus (Latreille, 1802)	1927	Drumm, J. C.	Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio

All 271 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Polk: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Ashland County

The National Weather Service names Polk in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 Ashland 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 1061562. 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.

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.