Lake Seneca, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bridgewater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43543. The Survey maps it on the Nettle Lake quadrangle. 529 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresLake Seneca grew from 465 to 529 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 | 465 | |
| 2020 | 529 | +64 (+14%) |
Then and now
1914 to 1990The same ground, surveyed 76 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.
- 1914 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Nettle Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Nettle Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Nettle Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
In the 1905 county history
3,485 words on this townshipThe county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Bridgewater Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Bridgewater Township - 3,485 words.
Fires nearby
1 since 2019The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lake Seneca between 2019 and 2019, burning about 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000138 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 257 shownMuseums hold 257 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lake Seneca between 1895 and 1970: 254 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Barnes, T. N., Bauer, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | unnamed | 1897 | F. L. Stevens | Columbia. |
![]() | Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854 | 1946 | H. Price | Nettle Creek near Nettle Lake |
![]() | Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854 | 1946 | H. Price | Nettle Creek, at ripples near Nettle Lake |
![]() | Aspidium Sw. | 1895 | Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley | Florence |
![]() | Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 | 1926 | Collector(s): unknown | No specific locality recorded |
![]() | Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 | 1927 | Price, H. (Homer) | Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Creek, at inlet to Nettle Lake in Northwest township, 4.7 mi S of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Chaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier, 1829) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Erimyzon sucetta kennerlii (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Etheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 1888 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman | Nettle Lake, northern northwest township |
All 257 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgewater Center | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Greyhound | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Jim Town | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Ainger | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Nettle Lake | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Pioneer | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Northwest | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Deer Lick (historical) | 5.2 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 Lake Seneca | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5969555 | 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 2633228. 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.

























