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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.

Lake Seneca within Williams County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
2010465
2020529+64 (+14%)

Then and now

1914 to 1990

The 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 sheet of Lake Seneca, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Lake Seneca, surveyed 1914

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.

In the 1905 county history

3,485 words on this township

The 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 2019

The 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/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
17 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWRIGHT-WALDRON FIRE & AMBULANCE 0000138 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 257 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of unnamed1897F. L. StevensColumbia.
Specimen of Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854Gomphus exilis Selys, 18541946H. PriceNettle Creek near Nettle Lake
Specimen of Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854Gomphus lividus Selys, 18541946H. PriceNettle Creek, at ripples near Nettle Lake
A photograph of the species Aspidium Sw., not of this specimenAspidium Sw.1895Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyFlorence
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger Linnaeus, 17581926Collector(s): unknownNo specific locality recorded
A photograph of the species Sturnus vulgaris, not of this specimenSturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 17581927Price, H. (Homer)Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Creek, at inlet to Nettle Lake in Northwest township, 4.7 mi S of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Chaenobryttus gulosus, not of this specimenChaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier, 1829)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Erimyzon sucetta, not of this specimenErimyzon sucetta kennerlii (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma microperca, not of this specimenEtheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 18881929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanNettle 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Bridgewater Center1.1 miles14
Greyhound2.5 miles14
Jim Town2.9 miles14
Ainger3.0 miles14
Nettle Lake4.2 miles14
Pioneer4.9 miles14
Northwest5.0 miles14
Deer Lick (historical)5.2 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 Lake SenecaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5969555The 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.