Welshfield, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44021. It stands on Sawyer Brook. The Survey maps it on the Burton quadrangle. It stands 4,049 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1905 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 89 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
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.
- 1905 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
In the 1880 county history
4,670 words on this townshipThe county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Troy Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Troy Township - 4,670 words.
Fires nearby
2 since 2019The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Welshfield between 2019 and 2020, burning about 4 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15225 |
| 9 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15457 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 555 shownMuseums hold 555 specimens collected within 10 miles of Welshfield between 1889 and 1975: 453 Animalia, 97 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Andre F. Clewell, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Medeola virginiana L. | 1895 | Watson,J.R. s.n. [1895-06-30] | [label: Herbarium of J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Geauga Co. [County] |
![]() | Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort. | 1896 | Edo N. Claassen | Thompson Ledges |
![]() | Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790) | 1889 | Collector(s): F. S. Haggart | No specific locality recorded. |
![]() | Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt. | 1890 | M. Rodman | Sugar Grove. |
![]() | Cypripedium reginae Walter | 1896 | J. R. Watson | Geauga |
![]() | Stachys cordata Riddell | 1896 | Guttenberg, G. | Burton |
![]() | Sarracenia purpurea L. | 1897 | J. R. Watson | Geauga |
![]() | Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray | 1901 | Lewis Sylvester Hopkins | Ohio, Middlefield |
![]() | Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw. | 1906 | L. S. Hopkins | Middlefield |
![]() | Dryopteris cristata x goldiana | 1907 | Hopkins, L.S. | Middlefield |
![]() | Acronicta dactylina Grote, 1874 | 1908 | Teraguchi, S. (Sonja) | OH Geauga Co. Troy Twp. Snow Lake |
| Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | 1911 | Hopkins, L.S. | Burton |
All 555 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
3 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Welshfield: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haueter Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Parkman Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Parkman Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
9 since 1996The National Weather Service names Welshfield in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Welshfield | $35,000 | A thunderstorm downburst downed several trees and utility poles along State Route 700 near Welshfield. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Welshfield | $10,000 | A wind gust was measured at 65 miles per hour. A tree fell on a barn in Bainbridge. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Welshfield | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Welshfield | $4,000 | The Sheriff's office reported a tree down in both Troy Township and Parkman. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Welshfield | $4,000 | Quarter size hail was observed. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Welshfield | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed two trees near Welshfield. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Welshfield | - | Several trees downed along U.S. Route 422, about one-mile ESE of Welshfield. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Welshfield | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Welshfield | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popes Corners | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Maple Grove | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Burton Lake | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Auburn Corners | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Parkman | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| South Newbury | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Auburn Center | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Burton | 5.8 miles | 14 |
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 Welshfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7982047 | 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 1061727. 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.
























