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Custar, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43511. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. 178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Custar within Wood County

Population over time

2 figures

Custar fell from 179 to 178 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.

YearPeople Change
2010179
2020178-1 (-1%)

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Custar, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Custar, surveyed 1909

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Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Milton township, in the words of 1897.

1897, Milton Township

Wild Hogs

THE earliest recollections we have from the first settlers all speak of the great numbers of wild hogs that frequented the woods in the Black Swamp. They were more numerous at times than the deer and many years later they were captured in the dense woods north of what is called the "Devil's Hole."

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In the 1897 county history

7,472 words on this township

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

The chapter on Milton Township covers comparative statistics, population, first elections, township officials, pioneer land buyers, a reminiscence.

Read the chapter on Milton Township - 7,472 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 268 shown

Museums hold 268 specimens collected within 10 miles of Custar between 1860 and 1975: 261 Animalia, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. BURGER, Bureau of Fisheries, Collector(s): Nixon Wilson 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Lampsilis alata (Say, 1817)Lampsilis alata (Say, 1817)1908not recordedGrand Rapids
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1908not recordedMaumee River, Grand Rapids
Specimen of Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1908Bureau of FisheriesGrand Rapids
A photograph of the species Notropis hudsonius, not of this specimenNotropis hudsonius (Clinton, 1824)1860unknownGrand Rapids, Maumee R.
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893United States Fish CommissionBeaver Creek, Grand Rapids
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedGrand Rapids, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893P. KirschMaumee River, Grand Rapids, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191893PH KirschBeaver Creek, from mouth (at Maumee) up for 3 mi; near Grand Rapids; Maumee River dr
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1893not recordedGrand Rapids, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191893P. KirschMaumee River, Grand Rapids, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1893not recordedGrand Rapids, Beaver Creek
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedGrand Rapids, Beaver Creek

All 268 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 Custar: 1 producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Custar Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms nearby

7 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Custar in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Tornado (EF0)Custar$100,000A tornado touched down about a mile west of Custar and then traveled east. The tornado lifted as it entered the west end of Custar. Some trees were toppled along the damage path and two homes and a garage in Custar sustained roof damage. Damaging straight line winds accompanied the tornado and downed trees elsewhere in Custar. The tornado had a damage path nearly a mile in length and up to 50 yards in width. This tornado was rated an EF0.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCustar$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 1996Tornado (F0)Custar$2,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCustar-Two trees down; one in Custar and another one-mile east of Custar.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindCustar-Thunderstorm downburst winds were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2006HailCustar-Penny size hail was observed.
August 2003Funnel CloudCustar-A funnel cloud was observed west of Custar near the Henry County line. The funnel came within 20 feet of touching the ground. No damage occurred.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Milton Center1.5 miles12
Farnham (historical)4.2 miles10
Haney (historical)4.6 miles12
Weston4.8 miles12
Wingston6.3 miles14
Digby7.2 miles14
Hoytville7.3 miles11
Grand Rapids8.8 miles16

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 CustarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2411100The 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 1056856. 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.