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Summerfield, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43788. It stands on Lexington Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Summerfield quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Summerfield within Noble County

Population over time

2 figures

Summerfield fell from 254 to 237 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
2010254
2020237-17 (-7%)

Then and now

1909 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Summerfield, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Summerfield, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

21 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Summerfield between 2012 and 2020, burning about 66 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15330
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15254
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15331
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15251
16 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15812
16 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8245
9 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10085

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 80 shown

Museums hold 80 specimens collected within 10 miles of Summerfield between 1860 and 1974: 69 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 18211916not recorded
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916not recorded
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 Cuclotogaster heterographus, not of this specimenCuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Goniodes Nitzsch, not of this specimenGoniodes Nitzsch, 18181916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Haematopinus suis, not of this specimenHaematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Populus tremuloides, not of this specimenPopulus tremuloides Michx.1922Davis, H.A.Marion
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 19561929MB Trautman & ass't.Seneca Fork, trib. of Wills Creek, extreme northern Marion Twp.
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB TrautmanTrib. of the Seneca Fork of Wills Creek, northern Marion Twp.
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Seneca Fork Wills Creek, within Marion township, near Batesville, Marion township

All 80 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Summerfield: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Christman QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Christman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Zergers QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Zergers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms nearby

13 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Summerfield in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death and 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Tornado (F2)Summerfield1 killed, 1 hurt, $75,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSummerfield$30,000Emergency management reported numerous trees down in the Summerfield area.
June 2008Flash FloodSummerfield$30,000Emergency management reported State Route 146 closed in sections by flash flooding in the Summerfield area.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSummerfield$5,000Emergency Management reported numerous trees down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSummerfield$5,000Law enforement reports of large trees down in Summerfield.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindSummerfield$3,000Several trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSummerfield$1,000Local law enforcement reported trees down on Route 513.
January 2024FloodSummerfield-State Route 513 southbound was closed due to flooding.
March 2023FloodSummerfield-Roads closed due to flooding included all of State Route 564, State Route 145 from Washington County to Stafford, State Route 724, and State Route 146 near Summerfield.
August 2004HailSummerfield-and 1 tree down.
July 2003Flash FloodSummerfield-In eastern Noble Co, Routes 513 (near Summerfield), 724 (near Carlisle), and 564 (near Harriettsville flooded.
April 2026HailSummerfield-no account filed
April 2026HailSummerfield-no account filed

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
Steamtown1.9 miles13
Whigville2.9 miles13
Carlisle3.8 miles14
East Union4.0 miles12
Fredericksdale4.8 miles12
Mount Ephraim5.6 miles12
Mud Run6.2 miles13
Cliffyville (historical)6.3 miles14

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 SummerfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q547737The 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 1076998. 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.