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

Northwood, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43311. The Survey maps it on the Rushsylvania quadrangle.

Northwood within Logan County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Northwood, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Northwood, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 657 shown

Museums hold 657 specimens collected within 10 miles of Northwood between 1862 and 1975: 600 Animalia, 48 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. R. Gaufin, A. Spreitzer 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 Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) CookePoria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke1906Penfield, O.; C. B. WilsonRidgeway
Specimen of Polygonatum verticillatum (L.) All.Polygonatum verticillatum (L.) All.1911Errard P.Bellefontaine
Specimen of Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)1930E. Williamson & et al.[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Carex buxbaumii, not of this specimenCarex buxbaumii Wahlenb.1862W. M. CanbyBelfontaine.
A photograph of the species Nasturtium officinale, not of this specimenNasturtium officinale R.Br.1862W. M. CanbyBellefontaine
A photograph of the species Protographium marcellus, not of this specimenProtographium marcellus (Cramer, 1777)1869not recordedBellefontaine
A photograph of the species Otus asio, not of this specimenOtus asio naevius (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1874Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Trautman, M. A. (Mary Auten)Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Solenostoma crenuliforme, not of this specimenSolenostoma crenuliforme (Austin) Steph.1877not recorded
A photograph of the species Gallinago delicata, not of this specimenGallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)1889McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Gallinago gallinago, not of this specimenGallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)1889McCormick, L. M.Beaver Creek, Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica virens, not of this specimenDendroica virens virens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1891McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lampropeltis triangulum, not of this specimenLampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)1893not recordedLogan Co., Ohio

All 657 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Northwood: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Duff QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Duff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Northwood Stone & Asphalt Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Northwood Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms nearby

4 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Northwood in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 flash flood, 1 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
July 1998Thunderstorm WindNorthwood$5,000Trees downed.
July 2013Flash FloodNorthwood$1,000Three county roads were closed due to high water caused by heavy rainfall, including 101, 105, and 25. All of these locations were near the community of Northwood.
June 2019Flash FloodNorthwood-Water from a creek was flowing ankle deep over a road.
June 2019Flash FloodNorthwood-Water was reported rushing over State Route 274 near U.S. 68, west of Rushsylvania.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
New Richland2.3 miles16
Belle Center2.5 miles11
Harper3.3 miles13
Rushsylvania3.4 miles13
Marl City3.7 miles13
Cherokee4.0 miles16
Huntsville4.3 miles16
Big Springs5.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049026. 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.

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.

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.