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Fort Shawnee, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Shawnee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45806. It stands on Little Ottawa River. The Survey maps it on the Cridersville quadrangle. 6,263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Fort Shawnee within Allen County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Shawnee grew from 3,726 to 6,263 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
20103,726
20206,263+2,537 (+68%)

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 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 Shawnee, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Fort Shawnee, surveyed 1906

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.

In the 1885 county history

14,379 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Shawnee Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Shawnee Township - 14,379 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 366 shown

Museums hold 366 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fort Shawnee between 1893 and 1975: 347 Animalia, 18 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by *ood, Almen N., Adler, K. K., Amstutz, K. 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 Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818Alasmidonta marginata Say, 18181908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
Specimen of Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1908Bureau of FisheriesAuglaize River, Defiance
Specimen of Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1893PH KirschSugar Creek, 2 miles north of Lima; Maumee River dr.
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191893P. KirschLost Creek, Lima, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedLima, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Nerodia sipedon, not of this specimenNerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedLima, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Regina septemvittata, not of this specimenRegina septemvittata (Say, 1825)1893not recordedLima, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedLima, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Amanita frostiana, not of this specimenAmanita frostiana (Peck) Sacc.1902C. W. DawsonLima
A photograph of the species Amanita rubescens, not of this specimenAmanita rubescens Pers.1902C. W. DawsonLima
A photograph of the species Amanita vaginata, not of this specimenAmanita vaginata (Bull.) Lam.1902C. W. DawsonLima

All 366 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fort Shawnee: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, 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
(Facility) Lima Ohio RefinerySulfurPlant
Fouremans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lima QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 1Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Allen 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
Elmview0.7 miles14
Rousculp3.1 miles15
Yoder3.5 miles15
Hume3.7 miles14
Oakview3.9 miles14
Lima4.2 miles15
Shady Grove (historical)4.4 miles15
Country Estates5.0 miles15

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 ShawneeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668772The 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 1040592. 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.