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Fort Loramie, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in McLean Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45845. It stands on Mile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Loramie quadrangle. 1,590 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Fort Loramie within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Loramie grew from 1,478 to 1,590 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
20101,478
20201,590+112 (+8%)

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 Fort Loramie, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Fort Loramie, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 316 shown

Museums hold 316 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fort Loramie between 1800 and 1974: 258 Animalia, 34 Fungi, 23 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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 Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.GrayDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1898Wetzstein, A.Rich woods, New Bremen.
Specimen of Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1898Wetzstein, A.Rich woods. Minster, Ohio
Specimen of Equisetum arvense L.Equisetum arvense L.1900Wetzstein, A.Along R.R. to N. Bremen, St. Marys.
A photograph of the species Mentha aquatica, not of this specimenMentha aquatica L.1800Ballenstedt, B.Bremen: An der WÅmme in Oberneuland bei Bremen
A photograph of the species Geum urbanum, not of this specimenGeum urbanum L.1883BaßmannBremen: Vegesack, feuchtes, schattiges Gehîlz bei Holthorst, sehr selten
A photograph of the species Rubus idaeus, not of this specimenRubus idaeus L.1889MeyerholzBremen: auf Quellgrund, Torf u. Humus
A photograph of the species Lobelia dortmanna, not of this specimenLobelia dortmanna L.1892WendelkenBremen: Bremen-Lesum, Lesum
A photograph of the species Rubus condensatus, not of this specimenRubus condensatus P.J.Müll.1892Elmgoeth, Fr.Niedersachsen: Soltau in der Lüneburger Heide
unnamed1897WA KellermanShelby County
A photograph of the species Carex shortiana, not of this specimenCarex shortiana Dewey & Torr.1897Wetzstein, A.
Sorosporium reilianum (J.G.Kühn) McAlpine1897W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Sphacelotheca reiliana, not of this specimenSphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton1897Kellerman W. A.Shelby Co.

All 316 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fort Loramie: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bandwie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bandwie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fleckenstein PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fleckenstein PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Earls Island1.5 miles14
West Lake Village1.8 miles15
Filburns Island2.0 miles14
Hegemanns Landing2.0 miles14
Newport3.8 miles14
Saint Patrick4.8 miles14
Lehmkuhl Landing4.8 miles15
Oran5.0 miles14

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 Fort LoramieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668736The 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 1064665. 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.