Otway, Ohio

Otway grew from 87 to 92 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.

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 1991

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.

• 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Otway quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Otway quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Otway quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Otway between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,270 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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:

• Henley
• Youngs
• Mount Joy
• Arion
• Crabtree
• Sedan

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Museums hold 1,005 specimens collected within 10 miles of Otway between 1893 and 1975: 828 Animalia, 129 Fungi, 45 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, Braun, E. Lucy, Bryant, J. 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
	Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens	Alum Rock
	Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817)	1909	not recorded	Scioto River, Pakistan
	Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820	1909	not recorded	Piketon, Scioto River
	Myelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale	1893	Jones, T.H.B	Otway
	Eratoneura minor (Beamer, 1932)	1921	McAtee
	Esox masquinongy Mitchill, 1824	1921	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Scioto Brush Creek, dst SR 104 near confluence with Scioto River, 2.44 miles E of McDermott OH, Rush Township
	Cronartium cerebrum (Peck) Hedgc. & Long	1923	Liete; Detmers	Rushtown
	Cronartium fusiforme Peck ex Hedgc. & N.R.Hunt	1923	Leete B. E.; Detmers F.	Rushtown
	Nardia crenuliformis (Austin) Lindb.	1924	Mrs. B. R. Taylor	Turkey Creek.
	Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
	Agnetina annulipes (Hagen, 1861)	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
	Agnetina capitata (Pictet, 1841)	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy

All 1,005 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Otway: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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 Scioto County

The National Weather Service names Otway in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 4 flash flood, 3 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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 1065223. 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.

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.