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McClure, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Damascus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43534. The Survey maps it on the McClure quadrangle. 700 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

McClure within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

McClure fell from 725 to 700 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
2010725
2020700-25 (-3%)

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of McClure, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of McClure, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of McClure between 2020 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning3

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
4 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15804
19 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15766
18 October 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15864

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 69 shown

Museums hold 69 specimens collected within 10 miles of McClure between 1898 and 1975: 61 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 3 Plantae, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Dabney Hart, G. Steyskal 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 Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.1919W.G. StoverLiberty Center
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spinosus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spinosus Selys, 18541898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spoliatus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Libellula luctuosa, not of this specimenLibellula luctuosa Burmeister, 18391898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Perithemis tenera, not of this specimenPerithemis tenera (Say, 1840)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Liberty Center
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Lewis H. L.Napoleon
A photograph of the species Camelina sativa, not of this specimenCamelina sativa (L.) Crantz1927Moseley, E.L.Wabash RR, Washington Twp
A photograph of the species Carpiodes carpio, not of this specimenCarpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)1927MB TroutmanBad Creek, near and at border.
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)1927MB TrautmanBad Creek, near and at border of Henry Co.
A photograph of the species Carpiodes velifer, not of this specimenCarpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bad Creek, Washington Township, near Liberty Center, Washington township
A photograph of the species Eleocharis erythropoda, not of this specimenEleocharis erythropoda Steud.1927Moseley, E.L.Wabash RR, Washington Twp

All 69 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McClure: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Pugh QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Texas3.6 miles12
Grelton3.7 miles12
Damascus (historical)5.0 miles12
Westhope5.0 miles12
Shunk5.2 miles12
Liberty Center6.1 miles12
Malinta6.1 miles12
Colton6.5 miles12

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 McClureAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2170884The 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 1056416. 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.