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

Philothea, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45828. The Survey maps it on the Coldwater quadrangle.

Philothea within Mercer County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Philothea, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Philothea, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 285 shown

Museums hold 285 specimens collected within 10 miles of Philothea between 1886 and 1975: 258 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by . R. Slonakerj, A. D. Selby, Adler, K. K. 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
Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)	1920	R. Rhoades	St. Marys Lake at Celina
unnamed	1934	P. P. Pirone	Coldwater
Lestes rectangularis Say, 1840	1942	H. Price	Grand Lake
Umbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)	1886	Meek and Harris	Montezuma
Ardea alba egretta Gmelin, 1789	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
Calidris canutus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
Ceryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-1994	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
Cistothorus palustris dissaeptus Bangs, 1902	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
Gallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Fort Recovery
Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1888	J.R.S.	Celina

All 285 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

9 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Philothea in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2011	Flood	Philothea	$100,000	Flooding is a continuation from earlier flash flooding. Several roads were impassible, evacuations occurred in a trailer park, and basements were flooded due to the precipitation. Flooding began around 0645 EST on February 28th and continued until around 0900 EST on March 2nd. Damage estimates during March were around one-hundred thousand dollars.
March 2011	Flood	Philothea	$100,000	Flooding is a continuation from earlier flash flooding on February 28th. Several roads were impassible, evacuations occurred in a trailer park, and basements were flooded due to the precipitation. Flooding began around 0645 EST on February 28th and continued until around 0900 EST on March 2nd. Damage estimates during February were around one-hundred thousand dollars.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Philothea	$7,000	A box truck was blown over.
September 2020	Flood	Philothea	$5,000	Coldwater Elementary School was flooded.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Philothea	$3,000	A wooden patio structure was destroyed due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2023	Flood	Philothea	-	High water was reported at the intersection of Philothea and Wessel Roads.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Philothea	-	High water was reported flowing across several roads in the Coldwater area.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Philothea	-	Several large limbs were downed.
July 2012	Hail	Philothea	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Saint Henry	2.4 miles	12
Coldwater	2.4 miles	12
Wendelin	4.0 miles	12
Saint Joseph	4.8 miles	12
Saint Peter	4.9 miles	12
Erastus	4.9 miles	13
Carthagena	5.1 miles	13
Cranberry Prairie	5.6 miles	13

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 Philothea	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134104	The 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 1044423. 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.