Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Booth, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oregon City. It lies in ZIP code area 43616. The Survey maps it on the Oregon quadrangle.

Booth within Lucas County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Booth, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Booth, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

5 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Booth between 2019 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 March 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15522
9 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15919
7 November 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15891
14 October 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15852
10 October 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15321

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,567 shown

Museums hold 1,567 specimens collected within 10 miles of Booth between 1863 and 1975: 1,354 Animalia, 158 Fungi, 44 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 3 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by AS Hazzard & party, Aborn, R., Al Szuch 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Erysiphe polygoni DC.	1900	F.D. Kelsey	Toledo
Lupinus perennis L.	1900	Kelsey, F.D.	America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
Lepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray	1863	Day, D.F.	Toledo
Nelumbium luteum Willd.	1866	Day, D.F.	Toledo
Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)	1885	Collector(s): J. A. Singley	Toledo
Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray	1889	J. Y. Pennypacker	Toledo
Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)	1892	C. Rutter	Cedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
Percina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)	1892	C. Rutter	Cedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
Acris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 1947	1893	not recorded	Toledo, Maumee River
Apalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River Basin
Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	U.S. Fish Commission	TOLEDO, OHIO
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River Basin

All 1,567 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Booth: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
	White Rock Quarry	Calcium	Past Producer	Calcite

Every working recorded in Lucas County

Storms nearby

2 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Booth in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2018: 2 tornado. 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
November 2013	Tornado (EF2)	Booth	$1,100,000	A EF0 tornado crossed into Lucas County from Wood County just to the west of Interstate 280 in Northwood. The tornado continued to the northeast and intensified to EF1 intensity as it moved across the Pearson Metropark. It tore the roof off of a house and damaged another home in this area. The tornado briefly intensified to EF2 as it neared Seaman Street in Oregon. The tornado made a left turn at that time and finally lifted as it crossed Corduroy Road north of Oregon. The tornado damaged many homes in Oregon. Most of the damage was from lost roofing or siding but at least two homes were damaged enough to be considered destroyed. The tornado was on the ground for over four miles in Lucas County. The damage path was up to a 100 yards in width. Dozens of trees were downed along the damage path and many vehicles were damaged by the strong winds or flying debris.
July 2018	Tornado (EF1)	Booth	$150,000	A tornado touched down near Oregon and tracked due north to near Point Place before dissipating. The nearly seven mile long damage patch was intermittent and consisted of mainly tree damage. Some homes sustained roof damage, mainly from lost shingles. A barn along the damage path did sustain significant wind damage. A video of a SUV being lifted and spun suggests the tornado was at least a high end EF1 in intensity at its peak. A couple other vehicles in the area were displaced. The tornado had a maximum width of around 25 yards.

Every storm recorded in Lucas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Momeneetown	1.5 miles	18
Curtice	2.7 miles	16
South Shore Park	3.4 miles	18
Immergrun	3.6 miles	18
Oregon	4.0 miles	18
Niles Beach	4.0 miles	14
Harbor View	4.2 miles	18
Ironville	4.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048533. 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.