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

Ottawa Hills, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ottawa Hills Village. It lies in ZIP code area 43615. The Survey maps it on the Sylvania quadrangle. 4,790 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Ottawa Hills within Lucas County

Population over time

2 figures

Ottawa Hills grew from 4,517 to 4,790 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20104,517
20204,790+273 (+6%)

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Ottawa Hills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ottawa Hills, surveyed 1900

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,384 shown

Museums hold 2,384 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ottawa Hills between 1863 and 1975: 2,046 Animalia, 162 Plantae, 159 Fungi, 6 Unrecorded, 6 Protozoa, 5 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Lose, Aborn, R., Austing, G 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Erysiphe polygoni DC.Erysiphe polygoni DC.1900F.D. KelseyToledo
Specimen of Lupinus perennis L.Lupinus perennis L.1900Kelsey, F.D.America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
A photograph of the species Lepachys pinnata, not of this specimenLepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray1863Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Nelumbium luteum, not of this specimenNelumbium luteum Willd.1866Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1875LangdonIndian Hill, Kane County
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1885Collector(s): J. A. SingleyToledo
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081885Cooper, W.C.Lambertville
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1889J. Y. PennypackerToledo
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471893not recordedToledo, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Apalone spinifera, not of this specimenApalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893U.S. Fish CommissionTOLEDO, OHIO
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin

All 2,384 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ottawa Hills: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Iron. 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
Interlake Inc/ Toledo, OhioIronProducer
Lula Quarry LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lucas County

Storms nearby

11 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Ottawa Hills in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2001HailOttawa Hills$20,000Half dollar to quarter size hail was reported three miles west of Ottawa Hills. A few cars were damaged.
September 2018Flash FloodOttawa Hills$1,000Flash flood resulted almost immediately due to the urban nature of the city. Dozens of roads received several feet of water. A car was submerged in up to 3 feet of water near the University on Central Avenue. Storm drainage systems were overwhelmed resulting in 18 homes with basement flooding.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindOttawa Hills$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindOttawa Hills$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindOttawa Hills-Large tree limb downed in Ottawa Hills.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOttawa Hills-Large tree limbs snapped near intersection of Secor Road and Monroe Street in Toledo.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOttawa Hills-Trees damaged and power poles broken about 3.5-miles NNE of Ottawa Hills.
May 2020HailOttawa Hills-Nickel to quarter-size hail near the intersection of Secor Road and Kenwood Boulevard on the west side of Toledo.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindOttawa Hills-Numerous tree branches down in the Ottawa Hills area.
June 2019HailOttawa Hills-Penny to quarter size hail was reported.
June 1995HailOttawa Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lucas 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
Richards (historical)0.5 miles15
Reynolds Corners1.4 miles15
Vulcan2.0 miles16
Central Avenue Park2.3 miles15
Freemans Gardens2.5 miles16
Nasby2.9 miles16
Auburndale3.1 miles16
Johnston Corners3.5 miles17

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 Ottawa HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2670464The 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 1065219. 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.