Wakefield, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Scioto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45661. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wakefield quadrangle. It stands 548 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1915 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Wakefield quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Wakefield quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Wakefield quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
32 since 2003The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Wakefield between 2003 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15743 |
| 9 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1262 |
| 5 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1261 |
| 8 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8011 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,183 shownMuseums hold 1,183 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wakefield between 1894 and 1975: 1,041 Animalia, 101 Fungi, 39 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. W. Evermann, Bales, B. R., Beach, S. (Sam) & Taub, S. H. (Stephen H.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Aecidium compositarum Rabenh. | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | Columbus |
![]() | Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1909 | not recorded | Scioto River, Piketon |
![]() | Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820 | 1909 | not recorded | Piketon, Scioto River |
![]() | Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 1855 | 1894 | Bean & B. Evermann | Scioto Creek, Coopersville, New York |
![]() | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1894 | B. W. Evermann | Cooperville; Scioto Cr |
![]() | Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1898 | Clayton, W. M. | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | not recorded | Waverly, Pike, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Poecile carolinensis extimus (Todd & Sutton, 1936) | 1898 | not recorded | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790) | 1898 | Clayton, W. | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Spizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1898 | not recorded | Waverly, Pike, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Toxostoma rufum (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
All 1,183 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
4 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wakefield: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A & S Plant A-7 & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Cutlip Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Cutlip Plant Dredge & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gregory Materials Company | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
3 since 2011The National Weather Service names Wakefield in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wakefield | $4,000 | Numerous large trees were downed. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wakefield | $2,000 | Power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wakefield | $1,000 | A tree was downed along U.S. Route 23. |
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.
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 Wakefield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7961026 | 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 1049286. 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.























