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

Maple Grove, 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. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Maple Grove 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 Maple Grove (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Maple Grove (historical), 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.

Fires nearby

3 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Maple Grove (historical) between 2019 and 2020, burning about 0 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
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
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15763
2 March 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOttawa National Wildlife RefugeKONST FIRE
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15920

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,511 shown

Museums hold 2,511 specimens collected within 10 miles of Maple Grove (historical) between 1825 and 1975: 2,480 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, AS Hazzard & party, Al Szuch 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 2,511 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 Maple Grove (historical): 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

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
Limestone2.6 miles13
Grodis Corner3.5 miles16
Rocky Ridge3.9 miles13
Trowbridge4.4 miles16
Blackberry Corner4.5 miles16
Graytown4.6 miles16
Long Beach4.9 miles14
Sheldon (historical)4.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049682. 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.

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.