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Stafford, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43786. The Survey maps it on the Stafford quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Stafford within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Stafford fell from 81 to 71 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
201081
202071-10 (-12%)

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 Stafford, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Stafford, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

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

10 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Stafford between 2012 and 2019, burning about 13 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 burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1881
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15254
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15331
5 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8245
14 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13205
7 February 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3266
27 February 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14981

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 93 shown

Museums hold 93 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stafford between 1853 and 1975: 85 Animalia, 5 Fungi, 2 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Wood & Tilley, S. G., Albert Hazen Wright, Archer, W. A. 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 Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Herbert R. MooneyWoodsfield
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 Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
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 Arenaria serpyllifolia, not of this specimenArenaria serpyllifolia L.1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry.
A photograph of the species Dysphania botrys, not of this specimenDysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry.

All 93 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Stafford: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rubels QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Zergers QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Christman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rubels QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zergers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms nearby

6 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Stafford in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindStafford$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees.
April 2024FloodStafford$1,000State Route 145 closed due to flooding.
January 2024FloodStafford-State Route 145 was closed due to flooding.
January 2024FloodStafford-Northbound State Route 145 was closed due to flooding.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindStafford-Damage to outbuilding.
June 2022HailStafford-Quarter size hail observed.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Jerles (historical)2.0 miles14
Hartshorn3.1 miles17
Jacobsburg3.5 miles13
Swazey3.5 miles13
Sycamore Valley3.7 miles17
Sprague3.9 miles17
Hamilton4.0 miles13
Lewisville4.7 miles13

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 StaffordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673066The 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 1076954. 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.