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.
Population over time
2 figuresStafford 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 81 | |
| 2020 | 71 | -10 (-12%) |
Then and now
1903 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
10 since 2012The 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 burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1881 |
| 15 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15254 |
| 15 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15331 |
| 5 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8245 |
| 14 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13205 |
| 7 February 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 3266 |
| 27 February 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14981 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 93 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | Herbert R. Mooney | Woodsfield |
![]() | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
| Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta | |
![]() | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1860 | unknown | state route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek |
![]() | Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | David M. Dennis | 3 mi. N Graysville |
![]() | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | 1883 | Albert Hazen Wright | Marietta |
![]() | Arenaria serpyllifolia L. | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry. |
![]() | Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly'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 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rubels Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Zergers Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Christman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Rubels Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Zergers Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms nearby
6 since 2002The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stafford | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Stafford | $1,000 | State Route 145 closed due to flooding. |
| January 2024 | Flood | Stafford | - | State Route 145 was closed due to flooding. |
| January 2024 | Flood | Stafford | - | Northbound State Route 145 was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stafford | - | Damage to outbuilding. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Stafford | - | Quarter size hail observed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerles (historical) | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Hartshorn | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Jacobsburg | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Swazey | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Sycamore Valley | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Sprague | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hamilton | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Lewisville | 4.7 miles | 13 |
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 Stafford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673066 | The 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.
























