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.
Population over time
2 figuresFort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,726 | |
| 2020 | 6,263 | +2,537 (+68%) |
Then and now
1906 to 1986The 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 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.
- 1906 USGS Lima quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Lima quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Cridersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cridersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cridersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
In the 1885 county history
14,379 words on this townshipThe 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 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818 | 1908 | not recorded | Auglaize River, Defiance |
![]() | Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819) | 1908 | Bureau of Fisheries | Auglaize River, Defiance |
![]() | Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1908 | not recorded | Auglaize River, Defiance |
![]() | Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854) | 1893 | PH Kirsch | Sugar Creek, 2 miles north of Lima; Maumee River dr. |
![]() | Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Lost Creek, Lima, Ohio |
![]() | Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782) | 1893 | not recorded | Lima, Sugar Creek |
![]() | Nerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | not recorded | Lima, Sugar Creek |
![]() | Regina septemvittata (Say, 1825) | 1893 | not recorded | Lima, Sugar Creek |
![]() | Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | not recorded | Lima, Sugar Creek |
![]() | Amanita frostiana (Peck) Sacc. | 1902 | C. W. Dawson | Lima |
![]() | Amanita rubescens Pers. | 1902 | C. W. Dawson | Lima |
![]() | Amanita vaginata (Bull.) Lam. | 1902 | C. W. Dawson | Lima |
All 366 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
5 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Lima Ohio Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| Fouremans Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lima Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 1 | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elmview | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| Rousculp | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Yoder | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Hume | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Oakview | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Lima | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Shady Grove (historical) | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Country Estates | 5.0 miles | 15 |
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 Shawnee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2668772 | 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 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.

























