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

Elmore, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43416. The Survey maps it on the Elmore quadrangle. 1,370 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Elmore within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Elmore fell from 1,410 to 1,370 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
20101,410
20201,370-40 (-3%)

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Elmore, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Elmore, surveyed 1901

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,117 shown

Museums hold 1,117 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elmore between 1825 and 1975: 1,104 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albiet, P., Berra, T. M. (Tim M.) & Class, Boesal, M. 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
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.1825T. DrummondBanks of the Portage River
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1893not recordedPort Clinton, 10 mi W of, Tousaint River
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedOak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedOak Harbor, Portage River
A photograph of the species Procambarus blandingii, not of this specimenProcambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1893United States Fish CommissionPortage River, at Oak Harbor
A photograph of the species Alisma triviale, not of this specimenAlisma triviale Pursh1894Moseley, E.L.Portage River, Oak Harbor
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Elsinoe veneta, not of this specimenElsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins1896Selby A. S.Elmore
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1898Selby, A. D.Oak Harbor
Braconidae1928W.V. Balduf

All 1,117 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Elmore: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Limestone, General, Beryllium. 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
Brush Wellman/ Elmore, OhioBerylliumPast Producer
Woodville Lime & Chemical QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Genoa QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Martin Marietta Refractories QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Martin Marietta Refractories QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
U.S. Gypsum Company Genoa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Woodville Lime and Chemical QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms nearby

29 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Elmore in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Thunderstorm WindElmore$75,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large tree limbs onto power lines. Widespread power outages resulted in the eastern portion of Elmore.
August 2023Tornado (EF1)Elmore$30,000The tornado began near the intersection of South Nissen and Deno Roads, about 1.5 miles north of Elmore, where several tree limbs were snapped. As this tornado moved southeastward, it damaged a nursery greenhouse before crossing the Portage River, where it downed several trees and scattered broken tree limbs onto several homes. The tornado tracked farther southeastward, uprooted three large trees onto a home, and damaged the roof of this home before entering Sandusky County. Estimated peak tornadic winds were 100 mph.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindElmore$30,000Thunderstorm winds downed 8 trees at a golf course. A building at the golf course was also damaged.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindElmore$25,000A thunderstorm downburst downed trees from northeast of Elmore to near Oak Harbor.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindElmore$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large trees and large tree limbs. Power lines were downed as well.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindElmore$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindElmore$7,000Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2010HailElmore$5,000Penny sized hail was reported with this thunderstorm.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindElmore$5,000Numerous large limbs were downed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindElmore$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed a three foot diameter tree onto Toledo Street.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindElmore$3,000Several trees were reported down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindElmore$2,000Trees were downed.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindElmore$1,500Power pole broken along OH-105 on north side of Elmore.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindElmore$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree on State Route 105 northeast of Elmore.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindElmore$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindElmore$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of 12-15 diameter tree limbs.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindElmore$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree limb.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindElmore$1,000One tree and one large limb blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindElmore-Trees downed in Elmore.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindElmore-Tree limbs downed along West Elmore Eastern Road in Elmore.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindElmore-Multiple trees down in the Elmore area.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindElmore-There were several large trees blown down around Elmore. This report was from Facebook.
July 2018HailElmore-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2007HailElmore-Penny size hail was observed.
May 2006HailElmore-Penny size hail was observed.
August 2003HailElmore-Penny size hail was observed near Elmore.
June 2008HailElmore-no account filed
June 1998HailElmore-no account filed
June 1998HailElmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Genoa4.4 miles16
Sheldon (historical)4.9 miles16
Graytown5.0 miles16
Middleton (historical)5.0 miles16
Elliston5.0 miles16
Rocky Ridge5.9 miles13
Martin6.0 miles16
Forest Park6.5 miles17

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 ElmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2289399The 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 1048703. 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.