Homewood, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monclova Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43542. It stands on Presque Isle Hill (historical). The Survey maps it on the Maumee quadrangle.
Then and now
1900 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1900 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 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 Toledo quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
- 1938 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:31680
- 1938 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:31680
- 1951 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Maumee 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
- 1964 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
7 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Homewood between 2002 and 2017, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 March 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7405 |
| 8 March 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7413 |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 663 |
| 24 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 November 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2647 |
| 8 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1962 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 879 shownMuseums hold 879 specimens collected within 10 miles of Homewood between 1875 and 1975: 765 Animalia, 104 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 3 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Lose, A.E. Daugherty 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1920 | L. L. Redick | Perrysburg |
![]() | Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1924 | L. L. Redick | Perrysburg |
![]() | Carex vulpinoidea Michx. | 1925 | J. E. Benedict | |
![]() | Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1875 | Langdon | Indian Hill, Kane County |
![]() | Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
![]() | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | not recorded | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1893 | not recorded | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
![]() | Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
![]() | Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
![]() | Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
All 879 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
7 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Homewood: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reed Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Maumee Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Maumee Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Toledo House of Correction Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Toledo House of Correction Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Waterville Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Waterville Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms nearby
1 since 2024The National Weather Service names Homewood in 1 storm report between 2024 and 2024: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Tree limbs downed about two-miles northeast of Whitehouse. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monclova | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Presque Isle (historical) | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Business Corner | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Waterville | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Whitehouse | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Spring Valley | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Maumee | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Sandburr Corners | 4.7 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064856. 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.




























