Cooney, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Northwest Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43518. The Survey maps it on the Nettle Lake quadrangle.
Then and now
1914 to 1990The same ground, surveyed 76 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
14 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.
- 1914 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Nettle Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Nettle Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Nettle Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
In the 1905 county history
3,785 words on this townshipThe county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Northwest Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Northwest Township - 3,785 words.
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 221 shownMuseums hold 221 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cooney between 1895 and 1969: 218 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Barnes, T. N., Bauer, L., CLARENCE CLARK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | unnamed | 1897 | F. L. Stevens | Columbia. |
![]() | Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854 | 1946 | H. Price | Nettle Creek near Nettle Lake |
![]() | Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854 | 1946 | H. Price | Nettle Creek, at ripples near Nettle Lake |
![]() | Aspidium Sw. | 1895 | Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley | Florence |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Creek, at inlet to Nettle Lake in Northwest township, 4.7 mi S of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Chaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier, 1829) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Erimyzon sucetta kennerlii (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Etheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 1888 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman | Nettle Lake, northern northwest township |
![]() | Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Bear Creek, at Edon, ~0.3 mi N of Edon, Florence township |
![]() | Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | MB Trautman | Nettle Lake, northern northwest township |
All 221 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
4 since 2007The National Weather Service names Cooney in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooney | - | The public reported several large trees were blown down just north of the Ohio turnpike, near mile marker 4. |
| June 2015 | Flood | Cooney | - | Numerous roads were closed due to high water for several days as periodic showers and storms slowed water levels from receding. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Cooney | - | Local officials reported a few cars going off the roadway into ditches due to high water. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Cooney | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nettle Lake | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Northwest | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Columbia | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Berlin | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Billingstown | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Ainger | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Seneca | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Bridgewater Center | 6.2 miles | 14 |
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 Cooney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19866086 | 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 1056250. 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.
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.

























