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

Mitchaw, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sylvania Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43560. The Survey maps it on the Berkey quadrangle.

Mitchaw within Lucas County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mitchaw, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Mitchaw, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

2 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mitchaw between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 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 use	1
Debris and open burning	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
18 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTTAWA LAKE FD 0000040 - 2018
11 October 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTTAWA LAKE FD 20154 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,368 shown

Museums hold 1,368 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mitchaw between 1885 and 1974: 1,213 Animalia, 140 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aaron J. Sharp, Benedict Jr., James, Benedict, James 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Uromyces asclepiadis Cooke	1900	F. D. Kelsey
Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1885	Cooper, W.C.	Lambertville
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)	1901	Starrett, A.	Storrs
Frommea obtusa (F.Strauss) Arthur	1902	F. D. Kelsey
Microstroma juglandis (Bérenger) Sacc.	1902	F. D. Kelsey
Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton	1902	F. D. Kelsey
Puccinia menthae Pers.	1902	W. A. Kellerman
Uncinula necator (Schwein.) Burrill	1902	F. D. Kelsey
Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)	1913	Goodrich, Calvin	Silica
Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1913	Goodrich, Calvin	Toledo
Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Swan Creek, within Springfield township, near Holland, Springfield township
Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Swan Creek, within Springfield township, near Holland, Springfield township

All 1,368 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 Mitchaw: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dorr Street Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Silica Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Silica Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Producer
Stlica Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Toledo Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Lucas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Centennial	1.4 miles	15
Silica	1.8 miles	15
Bowen (historical)	2.1 miles	18
Sylvania	2.9 miles	15
Richfield Center	3.1 miles	18
Berkey	4.2 miles	18
Raab Corners	4.3 miles	18
Central Avenue Park	4.5 miles	15

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 Mitchaw	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197560	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 1065039. 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.