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

New Rochester, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Freedom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43450. It stands on Middle Branch Portage River. The Survey maps it on the Jerry City quadrangle. It stands 2,185 feet above sea level.

New Rochester within Wood 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 New Rochester, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of New Rochester, surveyed 1901

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Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Freedom township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in Wood County and the Maumee Valley : a Pioneer Scrap Book, published 1909 - Freedom Township

The Pioneer An Athlete

UNCLE GUY NEARING took a subcontract from Contractor Beebe, on the Miami and Erie Canal. Contractor Beebe drew the money and appropriated it to his own use. He failed to pay Nearing, who was thereby ruined, having mortgaged his property. While his canal work was going on he became involved in a difficulty with some of the canal men, and while passing up the river with a team he was attacked by seven Irishmen with clubs.

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In the county-history sources

119,777 words on this township

Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in Wood County and the Maumee Valley : a Pioneer Scrap Book, published 1909 names this settlement in its chapter on Freedom Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

IN the year 1833, Isaac Cable and his three sons, Silas, Benjamin and Jonathan, also Michae] Miller and Michael Myers, from near Canton, Stark county, Ohio, settled at New Rochester. Almost, at the same time a party of settlers, among whom were Henry Nailer. Michael N. Myers, Christian Shelley, Ashae] Towers, Henry Hahn, and several others came in from Lorain county and settled at Pemberville and above on the north fork of the river.

Passage source: Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in Wood County and the Maumee Valley : a Pioneer Scrap Book, published 1909.

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 Freedom Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 800 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 800 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Rochester between 1894 and 1975: 765 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 5 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, L. 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 Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1901Kellerman, W.A.Bowling Green
Specimen of Physoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.ShawPhysoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.Shaw1912E. G. ArzbergerStation grounds
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Calicium lenticulare, not of this specimenCalicium lenticulare Ach.1895E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B.Big Darby Creek, no more precise locality beyond township, near Darbydale OH, Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Aristida purpurascens, not of this specimenAristida purpurascens Poir.1901William KellermanNear Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Phyllachora lespedezae, not of this specimenPhyllachora lespedezae (Schwein.) Sacc.1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
A photograph of the species Uromyces lespedezae, not of this specimenUromyces lespedezae (Thüm.) Peck1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora abietis-canadensis (Farl.) C.A.Ludw.1902W.A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora populina (Jacq.) Lév.1902W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Stemphylium cucurbitacearum Osner1915Gilbert W. W.Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1917E L MOSELEYBOWLING GREEN

All 800 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Rochester in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Rochester$5,000One tree and a large limb were downed.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Rochester-Trees down at intersection of Linwood and Emerson Roads near New Rochester. Time estimated via radar.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Rochester-Several pictures on social media showered large tree branches and limbs blown down on State Route 199 and Swan Road.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Woodside2.3 miles14
Scotch Ridge2.9 miles14
Cloverdale3.8 miles15
Pemberville4.1 miles12
Bradner4.5 miles14
Wayne4.6 miles14
Six Points6.1 miles15
Luckey6.2 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 RochesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14716753The 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 1065135. 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.

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.