Bowling Green, Ohio

Bowling Green grew from 30,028 to 30,808 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.

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1994

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.

• 1901 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bowling Green between 2002 and 2002, burning about 5 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:

• Asbury Hills
• Northridge Estates
• Quail Hollow
• The Village
• Westgate Homes
• Wintergarden Heights

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Museums hold 670 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bowling Green between 1893 and 1975: 630 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 9 Plantae, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., Angle, E. (Eric), B. BURGER 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
	Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1901	Kellerman, W.A.	Bowling Green
	Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Percina caprodes zebra (Agassiz)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1897	Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B.	Big Darby Creek, no more precise locality beyond township, near Darbydale OH, Pleasant Township

All 670 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bowling Green: 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 Bowling Green in 64 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 37 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

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 1048538. 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.