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Helena, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43435. The Survey maps it on the Helena quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Helena within Sandusky County

Population over time

2 figures

Helena fell from 224 to 211 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
2010224
2020211-13 (-6%)

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Helena, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Helena, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Helena between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 January 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandusky County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 578 shown

Museums hold 578 specimens collected within 10 miles of Helena between 1825 and 1975: 547 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 13 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. B., Adams J. M. R., Albertin 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1880Keeler, L.E.Fremont.
Specimen of Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.1896DayFremont
Specimen of Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1914Anson A. HinkleySandusky River, Fremont, North America
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.1825T. DrummondBanks of the Portage River
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Larus argentatus, not of this specimenLarus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 18621881not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry S. DayFremont
A photograph of the species Calidris alba, not of this specimenCalidris alba (Pallas, 1764)1891Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Sandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Neotibicen canicularis, not of this specimenNeotibicen canicularis (Harris, 1841)1891not recordedFremont
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus Gmelin, 17891893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio

All 578 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Helena: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, 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
Gibonsburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gibonsburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
J E Baker Co Ohio QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gibonsburg Plant QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Gibonsburg QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Je Baker/ Millersville, OhioCalciumProducer
Ohio QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite

Every working recorded in Sandusky County

Storms nearby

5 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Helena in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHelena$75,000Thunderstorm winds overturned a semi truck. No injuries were reported.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHelena$1,000Several trees and utility lines were blown down.
August 2011HailHelena-Quarter sized hail was observed.
June 2006HailHelena-Penny size hail was observed.
August 1997HailHelena-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sandusky 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
Millersville2.1 miles12
Tinney2.2 miles12
Gibsonburg3.4 miles12
Rollersville4.6 miles14
Hessville4.9 miles12
Gabels Corner5.1 miles13
Winters Station5.3 miles13
Girton5.4 miles12

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 HelenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q588573The 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 1065690. 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.

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.