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.
Then and now
1900 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
16 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Maumee Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Maumee Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1938 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:31680
- 1938 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
1 since 2020The 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/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15765 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,078 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Hygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn. | 1825 | T. Drummond | Banks of the Portage River |
![]() | Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830) | 1893 | United States Fish Commission | Portage River, at Oak Harbor |
![]() | Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782) | 1894 | not recorded | Toledo, Cedar Point |
![]() | Elsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins | 1896 | Selby A. S. | Elmore |
![]() | Armillaria mellea var. exannulata Peck | 1907 | Fink, B. | Genoa |
![]() | Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829) | 1909 | Brookover, C | Cedar Point |
| Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1910 | not recorded | Cedar Point, Lucas Co., Ohio | |
![]() | Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834) | 1911 | not recorded | Cedar Creek, Jerusalem Township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854) | 1928 | TL Hankinson | Portage River, at Elmore |
![]() | Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1928 | TL Hankinson | Portage River, at Elmore |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1928 | TL Hankinson | Portage River, at Elmore |
![]() | Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1928 | TL Hankinson | Portage River, at Elmore |
All 1,078 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
5 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Center Plant | Stone | Producer | ||
| U.S. Gypsum Company Genoa Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Genoa Quarry | Calcium | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| White Rock Quarry | Calcium | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| White Rock Quarry L.P. | Calcium | Producer |
Storms nearby
8 since 2005The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | $3,000 | A tree and a few large limbs reported down. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | - | 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 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | - | 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | - | Measured peak wind gust of 67 mph from thunderstorm in Martin. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | - | 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | - | 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | - | Trees downed in Martin. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martin | - | A personal weather station in Martin recorded a peak gust of 74 mph from a thunderstorm. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Center | 1.4 miles | 16 | |
| Forest Park | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Genoa | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Elliston | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Williston | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Trowbridge | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Middleton (historical) | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Sheldon (historical) | 3.7 miles | 16 |
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 Martin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6774809 | The 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.


























