Wakatomika, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1966

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.

• 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Trinway quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio :, published 1876; Historical of Coshocton County Ohio, published 1876; History of Coshocton County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, 1740-1881. Containing a Comprehensive History of Ohio; a Complete History of Coshocton County ... a History of Its Soldiers in the Late War ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881; History of Coshocton County, Ohio;, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Wakatomika between 2014 and 2020, burning about 121 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:

• Graham Corners
• Cooperdale
• West Carlisle
• Tunnel Hill
• Tyrone
• West Bedford

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 678 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wakatomika between 1846 and 1974: 610 Animalia, 34 Plantae, 33 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, Albaugh, W. F., Baumgartner 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
	Tortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu	1846	W. S. Sullivant
	Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)	1898	Williamson, E. B.	Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
	Celastrina ladon (Cramer, 1782)	1924	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Bedford Twp., Coshocton Co., OH
	Polistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
	Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
	Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
	Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
	Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
	Chrysemys picta marginata Agassiz, 1857	1929	Hine, D. (Dorothy)	Warsaw, Coshocton Co., Ohio
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	along Walhonding River, Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	MB Trautman & ass't.	Walhonding River, trib. of Muskingon River, center of Jefferson Twp.
	Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1929	MB Trautman & ass't.	Walhonding River, trib. of Muskingon River, center of Jefferson Twp.

All 678 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wakatomika: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Coshocton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wakatomika in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 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.

Every storm recorded in Coshocton County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062590. 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.