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

Ohio City, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45874. The Survey maps it on the Van Wert quadrangle.

Ohio City within Van Wert County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ohio City, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Ohio City, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 133 shown

Museums hold 133 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ohio City between 1837 and 1970: 124 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Bonnewitz L. R.; Stevenson J. A., Bonnewitz Lee R. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842)	1942	H. Price	St. Mary's River
Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890	1942	H. Price	St. Mary's River
Geranium maculatum L.	1837	Frank	Van Wert Co., Ohio
Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.	1850	not recorded	Ohio City.
Aphredoderus sayanus (Gilliams, 1824)	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Marys River, Rockford, Ohio
Albugo platensis (Speg.) Swingle	1921	Stevenson, John A.	Van Wert
Cladosporium paeoniae Pass.	1921	Stevenson John A.	Van Wert
Puccinia iridis Wallr.	1921	Stevenson J. A.	Van Wert
Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758	1922	Price, H. (Homer)	Van Wert, Ohio, USA
Dendrocopos pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1922	Price, H. (Homer)	near Paulding Co line, Blue Creek Banks, Van Wert, Ohio, USA
Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1922	not recorded	No specific locality recorded.
Bubo virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)	1926	Price, H. (Homer)	Van Wert, Ohio, USA

All 133 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

30 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Ohio City in 30 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 22 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	1 killed	Emergency management officials reported a large tree fell onto a house and roof of a patio near the intersection of SR 118 and Hoffman St. An husband and wife were under the roof of the porch at the time and had to be rescued. The husband escaped with no injuries, but his 87 year old wife was transported to the hospital and pronounced dead.
March 2006	Tornado (F2)	Ohio City	$1,000,000	The tornado was likely produced as the result of a line of thunderstorms overtaking an isolated supercell thunderstorm ahead of the line. The circulation which produced the tornado intensified shortly after the merger of the line and isolated supercell. The tornado developed near the intersection of Burris Road and Walnut Grove Church Road about 1 mile south of Ohio City. The tornado tracked to the east-northeast for roughly 2 miles before dissipating near Greenville Rd about 2 miles east of Ohio City. Damage along the first half of the tornado track was consistent with F2 intensity, with winds estimated at 140-150 mph and an initial path width of about 300 yards. In this area, 3 barns were completely destroyed, with another 5 sustaining damage. A garage was destroyed, and several houses received damage including roof, siding, and windows. Several grain bins were also damaged, along with other miscellaneous vehicle and property damage, including several tractors, a combine and other farm implements. Damage along the second half of the tornado track was consistent with F1 intensity, with the path width narrowing to about 25 yards. Several buildings sustained roof, siding, and window damage, with several instances of trailer and vehicle damage.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	$30,000	Damaging winds continued east after the dissipation of the tornado east of Ohio City, causing damage to several barns on Mendon Rd. A older vacant barn on Ries Rd was destroyed by the high winds.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	$20,000	Emergency manager reports a semi was blown over.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	$15,000	A parked semi trailer was blown over. Siding was ripped off the side of a house as well as large limbs being broken off a tree on the property.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	$10,000	4 large pine trees were uprooted as well as part of a barn roof being pulled off. An empty silo was also rolled into a field in the area.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	$10,000	Strong winds, estimated around 70 mph, lifted the corner of a metal factory in Ohio City, sucked out some insulation and set the corner back down. No injuries were reported.
July 2023	Hail	Ohio City	$1,000	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	A mesonet site recorded a 64 mph wind gust.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Numerous trees and power lines down and a park shelter destroyed. Time estimated from radar.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	A trained spotter reported several large trees down, including one uprooted around Ohio City.
March 2020	Hail	Ohio City	-	Emergency management officials related a photo of hail from a spotter. Most of the hail was around an inch but a few did approach one and one half inches in diameter.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Emergency management officials reported a large tree down in Ohio City.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Large tree limbs were blown down.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Emergency management officials reported a 30 foot by 70 foot wooden barn was destroyed on State Route 118 south of Ohio City.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Emergency management officials reported a large tree with rot inside snapped, hitting a house and garage. No injuries were reported.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Emergency management officials reported a six inch diameter tree limb down in Ohio City.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Emergency management officials reported a healthy tree with a diameter of 12 to 18 inches blown down by strong winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	County officials reported a tree being blown down onto State Route 118, near Ohio City.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Amateur radio operators recorded a 80 mph wind gust in the Ohio City area.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Emergency management reported large trees down south of Ohio City.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 60 mph in Ohio City.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Tree blown down onto power lines.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	Large tree blown down. Power lines down as well.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ohio City	-	TREES DOWN. WINDOW BLOWN OUT OF BRICK BUILDING DOWNTOWN ALONG WITH SOME ROOF DAMAGE.
May 2019	Hail	Ohio City	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Ohio City	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Ohio City	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Ohio City	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Ohio City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Wert 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shasta (historical)	2.3 miles	14
Dull	2.8 miles	13
MacAdam (historical)	3.4 miles	14
Buena Vista (historical)	3.4 miles	14
Abanaka	4.5 miles	13
Glenmore	4.5 miles	13
Jonestown	5.4 miles	14
Schumm	6.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065193. 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.