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.
Then and now
1900 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
14 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 Oak Harbor quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Oak Harbor quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Lacarne quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Lacarne quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Oak Harbor quadrangle1:62500
- 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
- 1967 USGS Lacarne quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Lacarne quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
1 since 2013The 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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge | BURMIESTER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 2,711 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) | 1898 | not recorded | Portage River |
![]() | Pseudoleskea rigescens Lindb. | 1828 | Thomas Drummond | Banks of the Portage River |
![]() | Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770) | 1865 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 | 1879 | not recorded | |
![]() | Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1880 | Porter, J.B. | |
![]() | Riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | Porter collection, J.B. | |
![]() | Tachycineta bicolor (Vieillot, 1808) | 1880 | Porter collection, J.B. | |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1894 | C. Rutter | Lake Erie at Port Clinton, Ohio |
![]() | Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819 | 1894 | C. Rutter | Portage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio |
![]() | Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802 | 1894 | C. Rutter | Portage River, Port Clinton, Ohio |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1894 | C. Rutter | Portage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio |
![]() | Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814) | 1894 | C. Rutter | Portage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio |
All 2,711 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 2006The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Lacarne | $100,000 | An 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lacarne | $8,000 | Numerous trees were reported down. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lacarne | $5,000 | Siding was peeled off a mobile home. Thunderstorm winds also downed several large tree limbs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Clinton | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Oak Harbor | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Locust Point | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Hickory Grove | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Sand Beach | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Long Beach | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Gypsum | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Rocky Ridge | 9.1 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 Lacarne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6468134 | 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 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.

























