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Marblehead, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Danbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43440. The Survey maps it on the Kelleys Island quadrangle. 865 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Marblehead within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Marblehead fell from 903 to 865 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
2010903
2020865-38 (-4%)

Then and now

1916 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Marblehead, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Marblehead, surveyed 1916

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 6,472 shown

Museums hold 6,472 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marblehead between 1871 and 1975: 5,101 Animalia, 1,217 Plantae, 136 Fungi, 8 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. F. Satterthwait, A. J. Eames 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 Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1898United States Fish CommissionSandusky Bay
Specimen of Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1898United States Fish Commission & W. KendallSandusky Bay near mouth of Sandusky River
Specimen of Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque, 1820)Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1899not recordedLake Shore, Near East Harbor
A photograph of the species Carex L., not of this specimenCarex L.1871H. GillmanPut-in-bay Island, Lake Erie.
A photograph of the species Astragalus canadensis, not of this specimenAstragalus canadensis var. canadensis1872T. MorongShores of the Is. at Put-in-Bay. Lake Erie
A photograph of the species Mentha arvensis, not of this specimenMentha arvensis var. glabrata (Benth.) Fernald1872T. MorongPut-in-Bay Is. Lake Erie. On the lake shore.
A photograph of the species Solidago hispida, not of this specimenSolidago hispida Muhl. ex Willd.1872T. MorongPut-in-Bay Island, Lake Erie
A photograph of the species Diphasiastrum complanatum, not of this specimenDiphasiastrum complanatum (L.) Holub1878Roberts, ThomasPut-in Bay;;;;
A photograph of the species Maianthemum trifolium, not of this specimenMaianthemum trifolium (L.) Sloboda1878Juni, B.Put in Bay;;;;
A photograph of the species Anemone canadensis, not of this specimenAnemone canadensis L.1881Mertz, H.Put-in-Bay
A photograph of the species Calystegia sepium, not of this specimenCalystegia sepium (L.) R.Br.1881Mertz, H.N.Put-in-Bay
A photograph of the species Cerastium arvense, not of this specimenCerastium arvense f. oblongifolium (Torr.) Pennell1881Mertz, H.N.Put-in-Bay

All 6,472 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Marblehead: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Marblehead Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Geawe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kelley Island QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kellys Island MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Marblehead QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms nearby

8 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Marblehead in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2002Thunderstorm WindMarblehead$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs. A home was damaged by a fallen limb.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMarblehead$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
April 2013HailMarblehead-A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail.
March 2007HailMarblehead-Nickel size hail was observed.
March 2007HailMarblehead-Nickel size hail was observed.
August 2003HailMarblehead-Penny size hail was observed.
June 2008HailMarblehead-no account filed
August 2008HailMarblehead-no account filed

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
Lakeside0.7 miles13
Mineyahta-on-the Bay1.9 miles13
Piccola (historical)2.8 miles13
Violet (historical)4.1 miles13
Gem Beach5.0 miles13
Harbor Acres5.1 miles13
Foxhaven5.2 miles13
Danbury5.8 miles16

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 MarbleheadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672436The 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 1065723. 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.