New Bavaria, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43548. The Survey maps it on the New Bavaria quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNew Bavaria fell from 99 to 86 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 99 | |
| 2020 | 86 | -13 (-13%) |
Then and now
1908 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 78 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
12 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.
- 1908 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS New Bavaria quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS New Bavaria quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS New Bavaria quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
3 since 2019The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of New Bavaria between 2019 and 2019, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 58 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15241 |
| 3 April 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15240 |
| 2 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15238 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 153 shownMuseums hold 153 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Bavaria between 1893 and 1973: 136 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C.R. Neiswander, Claud Revere Neiswander, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Tabanus atratus Fabricius, 1775 | 1937 | F. Bower | |
![]() | Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934) | 1939 | Claud Revere Neiswander | |
![]() | Percina maculata (Girard, 1859) | 1893 | PH Kirsch | Maumee River, at State dam, 4 mi below Defiance |
| Cyprinidae | 1905 | Ruh, R. (Russell) & Handwork, W. (Warren) | Maumee River, within Defiance Co, Defiance County, township n/a | |
![]() | Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Holgate |
![]() | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Holgate |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | South Branch Turkeyfoot Creek, within Flatrock township, near Malinta, Monroe township |
![]() | Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | South Branch Turkeyfoot Creek, within Flatrock township, near Malinta, Monroe township |
![]() | Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1931 | Murphy, M K | Junction Maumee River and Miami-Erie Canal, Washington township |
![]() | Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque, 1818 | 1931 | Murphy, M K | Junction of Maumee River and Miami-Erie Canal, Washington township |
![]() | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1932 | not recorded | |
![]() | Carex intumescens Rudge | 1937 | R. E. Shanks | Napoleon Twp. |
All 153 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
7 since 1996The National Weather Service names New Bavaria in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | New Bavaria | $75,000 | NWS storm survey showed a tornado touched down 3 miles south of New Bavaria and traveled close to 4 miles lifting 3 and one half miles east southeast of New Bavaria. The storm was around 50 yards wide and produced F0 to F1 damage along its path destroying 2 barns and damaging several houses. Trees and power poles as well as some smaller structures were also damaged. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Bavaria | $15,000 | Power lines as well as a tree were blown down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Bavaria | $5,000 | Powerlines and tree limbs were down on Walnut street. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | New Bavaria | - | Eyewitness reports and a National Weather Service Damage survey indicate a circulation quickly formed and touched down on the leading edge of a larger area of downburst winds along County Road Y, west of County Road 12A. The tornado caused some minor roof damage to a residence and snapped or uprooted several trees in the immediate area (DI: TH DOD: 3); some debarking of tree tops was observed. Wet ground likely aided uprooting of trees. Shortly after touchdown, the tornado became outflow dominant and quickly dissipated with debris being carried by straight line winds to the east. Maximum path length was 50 yards with a maximum width of 25 yards. Wind speeds were estimated at around 85 mph. |
| May 2010 | Hail | New Bavaria | - | Trained spotters reported tennis ball size hail, as well as estimated wind gusts up to 75 mph. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Bavaria | - | Emergency management reported power lines down near New Bavaria. |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Bavaria | - | no account filed |
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.
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 New Bavaria | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673136 | 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 1043820. 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.
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.






















