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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Road Fork, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Elk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45745. It stands on Road Fork. The Survey maps it on the Stafford quadrangle.

Road Fork within Noble County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Road Fork, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Road Fork, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

3 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Road Fork between 2013 and 2020, burning about 9 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10687
10 March 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesHARRIETSVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 71 shown

Museums hold 71 specimens collected within 10 miles of Road Fork between 1853 and 1974: 59 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Albert Hazen Wright, 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
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus fowleri, not of this specimenAnaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1853not recordedMarietta
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Thamnophis Fitzinger, not of this specimenThamnophis Fitzinger, 18431853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1860unknownstate route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1883Albert Hazen WrightMarietta
A photograph of the species Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1884NoneMacksburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum trifolii, not of this specimenColletotrichum trifolii Bain1911Scarberry J. J.MACKSBURG
A photograph of the species Populus tremuloides, not of this specimenPopulus tremuloides Michx.1922Davis, H.A.Marion
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township

All 71 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2022

The National Weather Service names Road Fork in 5 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 3 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRoad Fork$1,000A large oak tree was uprooted on Poplar Lick Road.
February 2022FloodRoad Fork$1,000Heavy rain caused a portion of SR260 to be closed due to flooding.
January 2024FloodRoad Fork-Southbound State Route 260 and Route 564 were closed due to flooding.
January 2024FloodRoad Fork-State Route 260 was closed due to flooding.
April 2024Flash FloodRoad Fork-State Road 260 was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Noble 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
Flag1.3 miles14
Elk1.5 miles14
Harriettsville2.9 miles14
Cliffyville (historical)2.9 miles14
Middleburg4.3 miles13
Rado (historical)4.5 miles13
Kilmer5.7 miles13
Carlisle6.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060587. 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.