Otsego, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1986

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.

• 1909 USGS Mc Clure quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Mc Clure quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:31680
• 1952 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Otsego between 2002 and 2002, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Tontogany
• Williamsburg-On-The-River
• Country Manor Estates
• Haskins
• Hull Prairie
• Asbury Hills

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 695 specimens collected within 10 miles of Otsego between 1860 and 1975: 592 Animalia, 75 Plantae, 26 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Lose, A.E. Daugherty 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
	Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1901	Kellerman, W.A.	Bowling Green
	Lampsilis alata (Say, 1817)	1908	not recorded	Grand Rapids
	Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1908	not recorded	Maumee River, Grand Rapids
	Notropis hudsonius (Clinton, 1824)	1860	unknown	Grand Rapids, Maumee R.
	Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1875	Langdon	Indian Hill, Kane County
	Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1893	United States Fish Commission	Beaver Creek, Grand Rapids
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1893	not recorded	Grand Rapids, Maumee River
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Grand Rapids, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1893	PH Kirsch	Beaver Creek, from mouth (at Maumee) up for 3 mi; near Grand Rapids; Maumee River dr

All 695 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Otsego: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, 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.

Every working recorded in Wood County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049045. 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.

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.