New Jerusalem, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jerusalem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43412. The Survey maps it on the Reno Beach quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1900 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 86 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
14 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.
- 1900 USGS Maumee Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Maumee Bay quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Reno Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1938 USGS Reno Beach quadrangle1:31680
- 1938 USGS Reno Beach quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Reno Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Reno Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
13 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of New Jerusalem (historical) between 2013 and 2020, burning about 4 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15811 |
| 30 June 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15765 |
| 25 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15763 |
| 22 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15677 |
| 22 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge | POACHER HIGHWAY FIRE |
| 25 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15522 |
| 9 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15919 |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15920 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 623 shownMuseums hold 623 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Jerusalem (historical) between 1892 and 1975: 599 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by AS Hazzard & party, Al Szuch, Anson A. Hinkley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817) | 1892 | C. Rutter | Cedar Point, Toledo, Ohio |
![]() | Percina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1892 | C. Rutter | Cedar Point, Toledo, Ohio |
![]() | Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1894 | C. Rutter | Ohio, Cedar Point, Toledo |
![]() | Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) | 1894 | C. Rutter | Ohio, Cedar Point, Toledo |
![]() | Cambarus diogenes Girard, 1852 | 1894 | C. Rutter | Toledo, Presque Isle |
![]() | Esox Linnaeus, 1758 | 1894 | C. Rutter | Ohio, Toledo, Presque Isle |
![]() | Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758 | 1894 | C. Rutter | Ohio, Toledo, Presque Isle |
![]() | Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1894 | C. Rutter | Ohio, Cedar Point, Toledo |
![]() | Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | C. Rutter | Ohio, Toledo, Presque Isle |
![]() | Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782) | 1894 | not recorded | Toledo, Cedar Point |
| Micropterus Lacepède, 1802 | 1894 | C. Rutter | Ohio, Toledo, Presque Isle | |
![]() | Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893 | 1894 | C. Rutter | Ohio, Cedar Point, Toledo |
All 623 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yondota | 0.5 miles | 14 | |
| Bono | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Reno Beach | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Lakemont Landing | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Lakeland | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Howard Farms Beach | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Curtice | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Niles Beach | 4.8 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070565. 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.
























