BlockBefore
Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

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.

Wakefield within Pike County

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The 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 sheet of Wakefield, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Wakefield, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

32 since 2003

The 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15743
9 May 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1262
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1261
8 April 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,183 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896F.L. StevensColumbus
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedScioto River, Piketon
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPiketon, Scioto River
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimenHybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551894Bean & B. EvermannScioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181894B. W. EvermannCooperville; Scioto Cr
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1898Clayton, W. M.Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1898not recordedWaverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Poecile carolinensis, not of this specimenPoecile carolinensis extimus (Todd & Sutton, 1936)1898not recordedPiketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1898Clayton, W.Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Spizella pusilla, not of this specimenSpizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810)1898not recordedWaverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Toxostoma rufum, not of this specimenToxostoma rufum (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Henninger, 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 miles

The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A & S Plant A-7 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Cutlip PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Cutlip Plant Dredge & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gregory Materials CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms nearby

3 since 2011

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Thunderstorm WindWakefield$4,000Numerous large trees were downed.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindWakefield$2,000Power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWakefield$1,000A tree was downed along U.S. Route 23.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Wetmore0.8 miles12
Coopersville1.4 miles12
Sargents2.3 miles15
Shyville3.1 miles13
Riverdale3.5 miles15
Van Meter5.0 miles15
Camp5.1 miles12
Bobo5.4 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 WakefieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7961026The 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.