West Lafayette, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1913 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

• Andrew Ferguson Houselisted 1978
• Daniel Miller Houselisted 1980

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 6 records

• Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1939
• Central High schoolSchool, in the atlas of 1939
• Church of the NazareneChurch, in the atlas of 1946
• Post OfficeIce House, in the atlas of 1946
• West Lafayette Public SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1939
• West Lafayette Publie High SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1946

West Lafayette grew from 2,321 to 2,417 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

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.

• 1913 USGS Coshocton quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Coshocton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Coshocton quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Coshocton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Coshocton quadrangle1:24000

Historical Collections 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 names this settlement in its chapter on Lafayette Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of West Lafayette between 2005 and 2019, burning about 102 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:

• Fairview Manor
• Riverview Estates
• Village Court
• Orange
• Powell
• Flat Iron Corner

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,181 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Lafayette between 1846 and 1974: 636 Plantae, 416 Animalia, 119 Fungi, 4 Bacteria, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Spreitzer, Albaugh, W. F. 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
	Amanita flavorubescens G.F.Atk.	1942	Modenke	White Eyes; North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
	Bulgaria rufa Schwein.	1942	H. Moldenke	Coshocton, North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
	Calvatia rubroflava (Cragin) Lloyd	1942	H. Moldenke	Coshcoton; N. Appl. Exp. Watershed, near Coshocton
	Tortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu	1846	W. S. Sullivant
	Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	No Person (Birds)	Coshocton Co
	Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	No Person (Birds)	Coshocton Co
	Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)	1898	Williamson, E. B.	Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
	Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
	Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
	Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
	Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
	Hemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton

All 1,181 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Lafayette in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058129. 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.

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.