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Graytown, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43432. The Survey maps it on the Genoa quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1900 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 86 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
16 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.
- 1900 USGS Maumee Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Maumee Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1938 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:31680
- 1938 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,524 shownMuseums hold 1,524 specimens collected within 10 miles of Graytown between 1825 and 1975: 1,498 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Al Szuch, Albiet, P. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Hygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn. | 1825 | T. Drummond | Banks of the Portage River |
 | Pseudoleskea rigescens Lindb. | 1828 | Thomas Drummond | Banks of the Portage River |
 | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1893 | Woolman | Tousaint River, Port Clinton, Ohio |
 | Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Ohio, Tousaint River, 10 miles west of Port Clinton |
 | Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Ohio, Tousaint River, 10 miles west of Port Clinton |
 | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1893 | not recorded | Port Clinton, 10 mi W of, Tousaint River |
 | Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | not recorded | Oak Harbor, Ohio |
 | Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782) | 1893 | not recorded | Oak Harbor, Portage River |
 | Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) | 1893 | not recorded | Tousaint River, Port Clinton, Ohio |
 | Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819 | 1894 | C. Rutter | Portage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio |
 | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1894 | C. Rutter | Portage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio |
 | Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814) | 1894 | C. Rutter | Portage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio |
All 1,524 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Graytown: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Ridge Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Rocky Ridge Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms nearby
7 since 1995The National Weather Service names Graytown in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graytown | $75,000 | Several large trees, branches and power lines were downed, some on houses. |
| September 1998 | Lightning | Graytown | $45,000 | Lightning struck a barn. The ensuing fire destroyed the barn and its contents. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graytown | $35,000 | Numerous trees, utility poles, and wires were reported down across the western part of the county. In Graytown, a portion of a barn was blown down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graytown | $30,000 | A large barn was blown down and destroyed just north of Graytown on Graytown Road. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graytown | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees near Graytown. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Graytown | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Graytown | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheldon (historical) | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| Middleton (historical) | 0.7 miles | 16 | |
| Elliston | 1.1 miles | 16 | |
| Rocky Ridge | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Limestone | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Trowbridge | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Martin | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Grodis Corner | 4.2 miles | 16 |
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 Graytown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5598449 | 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 1048801. 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.