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

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.

New Bavaria within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

New 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.

YearPeople Change
201099
202086-13 (-13%)

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The 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 sheet of New Bavaria, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of New Bavaria, surveyed 1908

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 2019

The 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 burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 April 2019Debris and open burning58 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15241
3 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15240
2 March 2019Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15238

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 153 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Tabanus atratus Fabricius, 1775Tabanus atratus Fabricius, 17751937F. Bower
Specimen of Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934)Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934)1939Claud Revere Neiswander
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1893PH KirschMaumee River, at State dam, 4 mi below Defiance
Cyprinidae1905Ruh, R. (Russell) & Handwork, W. (Warren)Maumee River, within Defiance Co, Defiance County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Holgate
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Lewis H. L.Holgate
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)South Branch Turkeyfoot Creek, within Flatrock township, near Malinta, Monroe township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)South Branch Turkeyfoot Creek, within Flatrock township, near Malinta, Monroe township
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Murphy, M KJunction Maumee River and Miami-Erie Canal, Washington township
A photograph of the species Pomoxis annularis, not of this specimenPomoxis annularis Rafinesque, 18181931Murphy, M KJunction of Maumee River and Miami-Erie Canal, Washington township
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631932not recorded
A photograph of the species Carex intumescens, not of this specimenCarex intumescens Rudge1937R. E. ShanksNapoleon Twp.

All 153 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 1996

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2004Tornado (F1)New Bavaria$75,000NWS 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 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Bavaria$15,000Power lines as well as a tree were blown down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Bavaria$5,000Powerlines and tree limbs were down on Walnut street.
June 2013Tornado (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 2010HailNew Bavaria-Trained spotters reported tennis ball size hail, as well as estimated wind gusts up to 75 mph.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNew Bavaria-Emergency management reported power lines down near New Bavaria.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Bavaria-no account filed

Every storm 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
Pleasant Bend2.0 miles12
Holgate3.6 miles12
Standley5.4 miles12
Hamler7.3 miles11
Gallup7.5 miles11
Florida8.4 miles12
Elery8.4 miles12
Malinta10.7 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 New BavariaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673136The 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.