Bates, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1986

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.

• 1900 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:62500
• 1934 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:24000
• 1938 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1897 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 185 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bates between 1875 and 1975: 174 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Lose, Aborn, R., Angle, E. (Eric) 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
	Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1907	L. L. Redick	Perrysburg
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1908	not recorded	Maumee
	Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1920	L. L. Redick	Perrysburg
	Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1875	Langdon	Indian Hill, Kane County
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	United States Bureau of Fisheries	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Orconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee Basin
	Palaemonetes kadiakensis M.J.Rathbun, 1902	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee Basin
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1894	C. Rutter	Toledo (Perrysburg), Ohio
	Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)	1894	not recorded	Perrysburg, Maumee River
	Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1894	C. Rutter	Perrysburg, Presque Isle
	Dorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)	1894	C. Rutter	Maumee River at Perrysburg, Ohio
	Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1894	not recorded	Perrysburg, Maumee River

All 185 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bates: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Wood County

The National Weather Service names Bates in 1 storm report between 2007 and 2007: 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.

Every storm recorded in Wood County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064388. 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.

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.