Yankee Lake, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brookfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44403. The Survey maps it on the Orangeville quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresYankee Lake fell from 79 to 75 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. 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 79 | |
| 2020 | 75 | -4 (-5%) |
Then and now
1907 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 87 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
13 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.
- 1907 USGS Kinsman quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Kinsman quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Orangeville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
2 since 2019The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Yankee Lake between 2019 and 2020, burning about 2 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15692 |
| 24 October 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15323 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 91 shownMuseums hold 91 specimens collected within 10 miles of Yankee Lake between 1893 and 1975: 59 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Newton, M. K. Thayer, Almon N. Rood, Brown, Fred 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter | 1910 | E.B. | Johnston |
![]() | Saxifraga virginiensis Michx. | 1893 | Chamberlin, Earl | Cortland |
![]() | Perlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862) | 1899 | R. C. Osburn | Fowlerville |
![]() | Vireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1925 | Lyle D. Miller | Hubbard |
![]() | Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828) | 1928 | Lyle D. Miller | Hubbard |
![]() | Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Pymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | small tributary (Mud Run) of Shenango River, (at N Main Street), at Hubbard OH, Hubbard Township |
![]() | Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Small trib of the Shenango River, Hubbard Twp. |
![]() | Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | small tributary (Mud Run) of Shenango River, (at N Main Street), at Hubbard OH, Hubbard Township |
![]() | Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Pymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp |
![]() | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township |
![]() | Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township |
All 91 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2023The National Weather Service names Yankee Lake in 1 storm report between 2023 and 2023: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Hail | Yankee Lake | - | Hail up to penny-size fell about three-miles NNW of Yankee Lake. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brockway (historical) | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Weldon | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Brookfield Center | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Brookfield | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Yankee Hills | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Walnut Hill (historical) | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Hartford | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Paynes Corner | 3.3 miles | 15 |
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 Yankee Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2668645 | 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 1049353. 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.
























