Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Kingsway, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rice Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43420. The Survey maps it on the Lindsey quadrangle.

Kingsway within Sandusky County

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 Kingsway, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Kingsway, 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

6 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kingsway 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
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
21 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 June 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandusky County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,404 shown

Museums hold 1,404 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kingsway between 1825 and 1975: 1,370 Animalia, 22 Plantae, 12 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Adiantum pedatum L.	1880	Keeler, L.E.	Fremont.
Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)	1893	United States Fish Commission	Portage River, at Oak Harbor
Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.	1896	Day	Fremont
Hygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.	1825	T. Drummond	Banks of the Portage River
Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770)	1865	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789	1880	not recorded	Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Larus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 1862	1881	not recorded	Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1890	Harry S. Day	Fremont
Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764)	1891	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Neotibicen canicularis (Harris, 1841)	1891	not recorded	Fremont
Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1893	Woolman	Sandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
Esox americanus Gmelin, 1789	1893	Woolman	Sandusky River, Fremont, Ohio

All 1,404 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kingsway: 1 producer. 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
	Gottron Brothers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Sandusky County

Storms nearby

9 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Kingsway in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 storm surge/tide, 1 tornado. 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
March 1998	Storm Surge/Tide	Kingsway	$100,000	no account filed
June 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Kingsway	$15,000	A brief tornado began near the intersection of Township Road 153 and Township Road 146 in Rice Township. As the tornado tracked east-northeastward, several trees were downed and two of these trees damaged a home. Another tree was snapped at its base. The tornado ended just east of the home. This tornado was given a peak rating of EF1 with estimated peak winds of 95 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsway	$12,000	Many trees and power lines were reported down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsway	$10,000	A trained spotter reported trees down off State Route 19 near the Ottawa and Sandusky County line. The spotter estimated a 75 mph wind gust at their location.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsway	$10,000	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsway	$1,200	Utility pole downed at the corner of Oak Harbor and East Hawk Roads, about 2.6-miles NNW of Fremont.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingsway	$1,200	Utility pole downed at intersection of OH-53 and Bumb Road, about 4.1-miles NNE of Fremont.
August 2013	Hail	Kingsway	-	A trained spotter reported penny size hail along State Route 19 near the Sandusky County line. Trained spotters located west of Fremont also reported penny size hail with 40-50 mph wind gusts.
May 2000	Hail	Kingsway	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Booktown	2.5 miles	13
Shorewood Village	2.7 miles	13
Shannon	3.0 miles	13
Schlegels Grove	3.1 miles	13
Muncie Hollow	3.5 miles	13
Golden Gate Estates	3.7 miles	13
Young's Colonial Acres	3.7 miles	13
Fourmile House Corner	3.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062839. 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.