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

Limestone, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43449. The Survey maps it on the Oak Harbor quadrangle.

Limestone 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 Limestone, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Limestone, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,615 shown

Museums hold 2,615 specimens collected within 10 miles of Limestone between 1825 and 1975: 2,586 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Al Szuch, Albiet, P. 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
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.1825T. DrummondBanks of the Portage 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 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 Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, 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
Cerastium velutinum var. velutinum1895Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyLakeside Marblehead [Peninsula], Hartshorn's Dock
A photograph of the species Myosotis verna, not of this specimenMyosotis verna Nutt.1895E. L. Moseley
A photograph of the species Elsinoe veneta, not of this specimenElsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins1896Selby A. S.Elmore

All 2,615 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Limestone: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rocky Ridge PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rocky Ridge QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms nearby

3 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Limestone in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLimestone$20,000Amateur radio operators reported that a barn was blown down northwest of Rocky Ridge.
June 2023HailLimestone-Hail up to half dollar-size in Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, between Reno Beach and the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLimestone-A horse trailer was blown over by wind.

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
Rocky Ridge1.3 miles13
Maple Grove (historical)2.6 miles13
Graytown2.7 miles16
Sheldon (historical)3.1 miles16
Middleton (historical)3.2 miles16
Elliston3.6 miles16
Trowbridge4.1 miles16
Grodis Corner4.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1042571. 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.

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.