Green Acres Estates, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ottawa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45875. It stands on Tawa Run. The Survey maps it on the Ottawa quadrangle.
Then and now
1908 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 78 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
12 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.
- 1908 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Ottawa township, in the words of 1915.
Cholera At Gilboa In 1852
In 1852, during the epidemic of cholera, Gilboa was the worst afflicted illage in the county. It had nineteen cases of the dread disease, from which fourteen deaths occurred, only five persons who had the disease recovering. A great many of the people fled from the village, and only two doctorsremained to administer to the afflicted.
In the 1915 county history
352,608 words on this townshipThe county history of 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Ottawa Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Ottawa Township - 352,608 words.
Fires nearby
4 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Green Acres Estates between 2002 and 2002, burning about 3 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 5 May 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 25 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 October 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 103 shownMuseums hold 103 specimens collected within 10 miles of Green Acres Estates between 1860 and 1969: 95 Animalia, 8 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Blyth & Katz, Bureau of Fisheries 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 radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791) | 1893 | Bureau of Fisheries | Blanchard River |
![]() | Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1893 | not recorded | Blanchard River, Ottawa |
![]() | Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819) | 1893 | O. E. | Blanchard River, Ottawa |
![]() | Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1860 | unknown | Blanchard R. at Ottawa |
![]() | Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett, 1813) | 1878 | not recorded | |
![]() | Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | Porter collection, J.B. | |
![]() | Calidris minutilla (Vieillot, 1819) | 1878 | Porter collection, J.B. | |
![]() | Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | Porter collection, J.B. | |
![]() | Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | Porter, J.B. | |
![]() | Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | Porter, J.B. | |
![]() | Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 | 1878 | Porter collection, J.B. | |
![]() | Botaurus Stephens, 1819 | 1879 | not recorded |
All 103 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
3 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Green Acres Estates: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glandorf Tile Company Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Putnam Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Putnam Stone Co. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Glandorf | 1.3 miles | 12 | |
| Upper Tauwa (historical) | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| New Cleveland | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Wards (historical) | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Elm Center | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| West Leipsic | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Leipsic | 5.8 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2648367. 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.
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.























