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Martin, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43445. The Survey maps it on the Genoa quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Martin 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 Martin, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Martin, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Martin between 2020 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15765

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,078 shown

Museums hold 1,078 specimens collected within 10 miles of Martin between 1825 and 1975: 1,058 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by AS Hazzard & party, 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 Procambarus blandingii, not of this specimenProcambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1893United States Fish CommissionPortage River, at Oak Harbor
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1894not recordedToledo, Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Elsinoe veneta, not of this specimenElsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins1896Selby A. S.Elmore
A photograph of the species Armillaria mellea, not of this specimenArmillaria mellea var. exannulata Peck1907Fink, B.Genoa
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1909Brookover, CCedar Point
Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1910not recordedCedar Point, Lucas Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1911not recordedCedar Creek, Jerusalem Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore

All 1,078 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 Martin: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, 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
Clay Center PlantStoneProducer
U.S. Gypsum Company Genoa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Genoa QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
White Rock QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
White Rock Quarry L.P.CalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms nearby

8 since 2005

The National Weather Service names Martin in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2026: 8 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMartin$3,000A tree and a few large limbs reported down.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMartin-A trained spotter measured a 66-mph peak straight-line convective wind gust from a line of thunderstorms about one-mile NNW of Martin.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindMartin-A personal weather station located about 1-mile NNW of Martin recorded a peak straight-line convective wind gust of 70-mph from a line of thunderstorms.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMartin-Measured peak wind gust of 67 mph from thunderstorm in Martin.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMartin-A personal weather station recorded a peak convective gust of 79 mph in Martin and numerous trees were reported down in the area by Ottawa County Sheriff Dispatch.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindMartin-Trained spotter's personal weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 66 mph from passing showers and thunderstorms about two-miles WNW of Elliston.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMartin-Trees downed in Martin.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMartin-A personal weather station in Martin recorded a peak gust of 74 mph from a thunderstorm.

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
Clay Center1.4 miles16
Forest Park2.4 miles17
Genoa3.0 miles16
Elliston3.1 miles16
Williston3.2 miles16
Trowbridge3.3 miles16
Middleton (historical)3.5 miles16
Sheldon (historical)3.7 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 MartinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6774809The 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 1048948. 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.

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.