Jerry City, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Portage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43437. The Survey maps it on the Jerry City quadrangle. 454 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJerry City grew from 427 to 454 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 427 | |
| 2020 | 454 | +27 (+6%) |
Then and now
1901 to 1986The 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.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1901 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Jerry City quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Jerry City quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Jerry City quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Jerry City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
2 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Jerry City between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 October 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 704 shownMuseums hold 704 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jerry City between 1894 and 1975: 669 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, L. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh. | 1901 | Kellerman, W.A. | Bowling Green |
![]() | Physoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.Shaw | 1912 | E. G. Arzberger | Station grounds |
![]() | Icterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Geo W. Dean | Wayne |
![]() | Calicium lenticulare Ach. | 1895 | E. E. Bogue | |
![]() | Aristida purpurascens Poir. | 1901 | William Kellerman | Near Bowling Green |
![]() | Phyllachora lespedezae (Schwein.) Sacc. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Bowling Green |
![]() | Uromyces lespedezae (Thüm.) Peck | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Bowling Green |
| Melampsora abietis-canadensis (Farl.) C.A.Ludw. | 1902 | W.A. Kellerman | Bowling Green | |
| Melampsora populina (Jacq.) Lév. | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | Bowling Green | |
| Stemphylium cucurbitacearum Osner | 1915 | Gilbert W. W. | Bowling Green | |
![]() | Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825) | 1917 | E L MOSELEY | BOWLING GREEN |
![]() | Platanthera flava (L.) Lindl. | 1926 | E. L. Moseley | Engels, S of Swanton |
All 704 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jerry City: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portage Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant |
Storms nearby
3 since 1998The National Weather Service names Jerry City in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 2 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Jerry City | $850,000 | A tornado touched down southwest of Jerry City and then moved northeast for approximately four and a half miles before dissipating. Seven homes sustained varying degrees of roof damage and three garages were destroyed on the southwest side of Jerry City. To the northeast a few hundred yards, the city maintenance garage was leveled. As the tornado exited Jerry City, it knocked a house off of it's foundation. From Jerry City, the tornado moved northeast across open farmland and destroyed a large barn as it crossed Huffman Road. A home on Bloomdale Road was slightly damaged with the tornado finally lifting near Reynolds Road just north of State Route 281. Several vehicles were destroyed by this tornado and hundreds of trees downed along the damage path which was no more than 50 yards in width. |
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Jerry City | $200,000 | An EF1 tornado touched down east of Jerry City near the intersection of Main Street and Huffman Road. The tornado then continued east for around one and a third miles and lifted after crossing Cloverdale Road. A mobile home along Main Street was destroyed and a couple of other homes and buildings in the area lost roofing and siding. Damage along the remainder of the damage path consisted of mainly downed trees. The parent thunderstorm responsible for this tornado earlier produced a tornado near North Baltimore. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jerry City | $5,000 | Numerous trees were downed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trombley | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Cygnet | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Mungen | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bloom Center | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Six Points | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Arlington Woods | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Bays | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Oil Center (historical) | 3.7 miles | 13 |
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 Jerry City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2539761 | 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 1064910. 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.























