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Winfield, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44622. The Survey maps it on the Strasburg quadrangle.

Winfield within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Winfield, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Winfield, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

20 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Winfield between 2005 and 2019, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5345
27 July 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5265
12 June 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5025
5 May 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15173
20 April 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 588 shown

Museums hold 588 specimens collected within 10 miles of Winfield between 1851 and 1973: 424 Animalia, 145 Plantae, 16 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Cusick, A. Cibula, A. Cobula 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 Juncus tenuis Willd.Juncus tenuis Willd.1902Schaffner, J.H.Brusk Lake, Champaign co., Ohio
Specimen of Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.1902Schaffner, J.H.Brusk Lake, Champaign co., Ohio
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1936Heintzelmann, C.E.Camp Tuscazoar, Zoarville.
A photograph of the species Amelanchier arborea, not of this specimenAmelanchier arborea (F.Michx.) Fernald1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Anemone canadensis, not of this specimenAnemone canadensis L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1851Wolle, J.Canae Docus [??] [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover?]
A photograph of the species Delphinium tricorne, not of this specimenDelphinium tricorne Michx.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1851Wolle, J.Canal Dover
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum virginianum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum virginianum L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1851Wolle, J.Canal Downs [Canal Dover]

All 588 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 18 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Winfield: 10 producers, 7 past producers, 1 plant. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal. 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
77 Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kimble Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Kimble Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, CoalProducer
Belden PitClay, CoalProducer
Belden PitClay, CoalProducer
Plant Number 8Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Strasburg Brick MillFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Coxey Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Coxey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Dover QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas County

Storms nearby

8 since 2007

The National Weather Service names Winfield in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWinfield$100,000Law enforcement reported trees down countywide.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWinfield$25,000Law enforcement reported trees down along SR 516 in Wayne Twp.
August 2007Flash FloodWinfield$25,000Emergency management reported flash flooding on SR 39 just west of Dover.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindWinfield$15,000Report of wind destroying a barn and outbuildings at a residence. Picture provided allows for estimated wind of 60-70 mph.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWinfield$5,000County official reported trees and power lines down and barn roof damage immediately north of Dover.
June 2023HailWinfield-One inch hail reported.
April 2019Tornado (EF0)Winfield-A storm survey confirmed a EF0 tornado in the 1400 block off of Gasser Road near Dover, Ohio. The tornado blew apart a 100 year old barn and displaced several items|that were in it. Several large branches from adjacent hardwood trees fell down as well. The tornado lifted up just after it crossed Gasser Road NW. The estimated maximum wind speed was 85 MPH.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWinfield-There was a social media report of trees and power-lines down in this vicinity.

Every storm recorded in Tuscarawas 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
Beartown3.0 miles16
Columbia3.3 miles16
Parral3.4 miles16
Loudon3.4 miles16
Winklepleck Grove3.4 miles16
Barrs Mills3.4 miles16
Candlelight Villas3.6 miles16
Strasburg3.6 miles16

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 WinfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197579The 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 1061796. 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.