Mount Carmel, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43410. The Survey maps it on the Clyde quadrangle.

Mount Carmel within Sandusky County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mount Carmel, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Mount Carmel, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 printed 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.

1901 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:24000
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

13,970 words on this township

History of Sandusky County, Ohio, published 1882; History of Sandusky County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographies of Prominent Citizens and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on York Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The United Brethren began holding meetings in the southwest part of York. As the Pennsylvania element of the population grew the membership increased until in 1863 the class had acquired sufficient strength to build a meeting-house. The house and class took the name "Mount Carmel" and is supplied by the pastor of Clyde circuit.

Passage source: History of Sandusky County, Ohio, published 1882.

Nowhere in the county did the primitive forest appear more hospitable than in York. West of the Sandusky River was, seemingly, an endless reach of dismal swamp, steaming with vapors poisoned by decaying vegetation. But here, trees grew to graceful size, and shaded soft grasses. The perfume of wild flowers wakened birds to song, and the fleet-footed deer gave gayety to the scene. Propitious nature welcomed with open arms all who came to build homes for themselves and an heritage for their children.

Passage source: History of Sandusky County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographies of Prominent Citizens and Pioneers, published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on York Township.

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carmel in 2002, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 November 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandusky County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 178 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 178 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Carmel between 1889 and 1975: 117 Animalia, 49 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Berra, T. M. (Tim M.) & Class, Boardman, C.M. 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
Alternaria crassa (Sacc.) Rands	1915	L.R. Jones	Clyde
Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl	1969	Jones, G.T.	Damp deciduous woods after flood Townsend Twp., east od Whitmore.
Carex frankii Kunth	1889	H. C. Beardslee	Green Spring.
Arisaema dracontium (L.) Schott	1890	H. C. Beardslee Sr.	Green Springs
Carex haleana Olney	1890	H. C. Beardslee Jr.	Green Spring
Carex hyalinolepis Steud.	1890	Collector unknown	Green Spring.
Vicia hirsuta (L.) Gray	1896	Selby, A.D.	Clyde
Alyssum alyssoides (L.) L.	1898	A. D. Selby
Coryneum beijerinckii Oudem.	1898	Persing H. L.	Clyde
Cylindrosporium padi P.Karst.	1905	Hassenplug C. R.	Bellevue
Coniothyrium fuckelii Sacc.	1908	Wilbert E. C.	Clyde
Elsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins	1908	Wilbert E. C.	Clyde

All 178 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mount Carmel: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Bellevue Quarry	Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bellevue Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Flat Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kline Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kline Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bellevue Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bellevue Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Northern Ohio Stone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Sandusky 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
Colby	0.7 miles	16
Clyde	3.1 miles	16
Galetown	3.2 miles	16
Wales Corners	3.6 miles	16
Shady Acres	3.6 miles	16
Oil Station	4.1 miles	13
Mount Pleasant	4.1 miles	18
Green Springs	6.2 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q35734720

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 1048988. 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.