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

Lacarne, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Erie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43452. It stands on Little Portage River. The Survey maps it on the Lacarne quadrangle. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Lacarne within Ottawa County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lacarne, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lacarne, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lacarne between 2013 and 2013, burning about 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOttawa National Wildlife RefugeBURMIESTER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,711 shown

Museums hold 2,711 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lacarne between 1828 and 1975: 2,649 Animalia, 50 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 4 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Woolman, Anderson, J. (John) 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 Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)1898not recordedPortage River
A photograph of the species Pseudoleskea rigescens, not of this specimenPseudoleskea rigescens Lindb.1828Thomas DrummondBanks of the Portage River
A photograph of the species Hydroprogne caspia, not of this specimenHydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770)1865Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Charadrius vociferus, not of this specimenCharadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 17581879not recorded
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1880Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Riparia riparia, not of this specimenRiparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Tachycineta bicolor, not of this specimenTachycineta bicolor (Vieillot, 1808)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201894C. RutterLake Erie at Port Clinton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021894C. RutterPortage River, Port Clinton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio

All 2,711 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2006

The National Weather Service names Lacarne in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Lacarne$100,000An EF0 tornado touched down around four miles southwest of Port Clinton in Bay Township. The Initial touchdown occurred just east of the intersection of Paulsen Road and Little Portage Road East. The tornado then moved northeast for about a mile an a half before lifting along Darr Hopfinger Road. The damage path was about 30 yards in width. Damage consisted of mainly downed trees. Several outbuildings lost sections of roofing. A couple homes also sustained minor roof damage. Maximum winds were estimated to be around 75 mph. No injuries were reported.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLacarne$8,000Numerous trees were reported down.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindLacarne$5,000Siding was peeled off a mobile home. Thunderstorm winds also downed several large tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Port Clinton5.5 miles11
Oak Harbor5.6 miles13
Locust Point5.7 miles14
Hickory Grove6.8 miles15
Sand Beach7.1 miles14
Long Beach7.7 miles14
Gypsum9.0 miles15
Rocky Ridge9.1 miles13

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 LacarneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6468134The 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 1064958. 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.

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.