Grand Rapids, Ohio

Grand Rapids fell from 965 to 925 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.

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.

1909 1986

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.

• 1909 USGS Mc Clure quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Mc Clure quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:31680
• 1952 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Grand Rapids between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Otsego
• Tontogany
• Williamsburg-On-The-River

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Museums hold 515 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grand Rapids between 1860 and 1974: 467 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Bureau of Fisheries, Campbell, L. W. (Louis W.) 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
	Lampsilis alata (Say, 1817)	1908	not recorded	Grand Rapids
	Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1908	not recorded	Maumee River, Grand Rapids
	Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)	1908	Bureau of Fisheries	Grand Rapids
	Notropis hudsonius (Clinton, 1824)	1860	unknown	Grand Rapids, Maumee R.
	Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1893	United States Fish Commission	Beaver Creek, Grand Rapids
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1893	not recorded	Grand Rapids, Maumee River
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Grand Rapids, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1893	PH Kirsch	Beaver Creek, from mouth (at Maumee) up for 3 mi; near Grand Rapids; Maumee River dr
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio

All 515 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Grand Rapids in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 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.

Every storm recorded in Wood County

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 4 issues spread across its run from 1898 to 1949, 6,988 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064745. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.

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.