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Plymouth, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in New Haven Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44865. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle. 1,707 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

Plymouth within Huron County

Population over time

2 figures

Plymouth fell from 1,857 to 1,707 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
20101,857
20201,707-150 (-8%)

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plymouth, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Plymouth, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Plymouth between 2002 and 2002, burning about 5 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 173 shown

Museums hold 173 specimens collected within 10 miles of Plymouth between 1885 and 1974: 117 Plantae, 24 Animalia, 18 Fungi, 14 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, C. E. Jennings, Creamer, D. 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 Hemiarcyria stipata (Schwein.) Rostaf., 1876Hemiarcyria stipata (Schwein.) Rostaf., 18761885A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum inaequale Peck, 1878Physarum inaequale Peck, 18781885A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Chondrioderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Rostaf., 1873Chondrioderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Rostaf., 18731886A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Trichia proximella P.Karst., 1879Trichia proximella P.Karst., 18791889A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel., 1792Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel., 17921889A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 1899Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 18991890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum ellipsosporum Rostaf., 1876Physarum ellipsosporum Rostaf., 18761890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum relatum Morgan, 1896Physarum relatum Morgan, 18961890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Calonema aureum Morgan, 1893Calonema aureum Morgan, 18931891A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Didymium eximium Peck, 1878Didymium eximium Peck, 18781891A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein., 1805Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein., 18051891A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum sulphureum Alb. & Schwein., 1805Physarum sulphureum Alb. & Schwein., 18051891A. P. MorganPreston

All 173 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Plymouth: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Montgomery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Montgomery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plymouth Sand and Gravel-Huron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms nearby

7 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Plymouth in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPlymouth$10,000Several trees and large limbs were reported down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPlymouth$10,000A few trees were reported down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindPlymouth$4,000A few trees and large limbs were reported down throughout Plymouth.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPlymouth-Several trees downed along OH-61 about one-mile north of Plymouth.
June 2011HailPlymouth-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail.
May 2006HailPlymouth-Penny size hail was observed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPlymouth-Winds were estimated at 60 miles per hour.

Every storm recorded in Huron County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
Plymouth Advertiser1853 to 1988

What the paper printed

20,862 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 4 issues spread across its run from 1853 to 1855, 20,862 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

IssuePaper Length
1853-12-03Plymouth Advertiser6,852 words
1853-12-31Plymouth Advertiser5,989 words
1855-03-30Plymouth Advertiser1,526 words
1855-10-06Plymouth Advertiser6,495 words

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
New Haven2.6 miles13
New Pittsburgh3.4 miles13
Coble Village3.6 miles13
Delphi4.0 miles13
Celeryville4.2 miles13
Boughtonville4.9 miles13
Willard5.1 miles13
Centerton7.6 miles12

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 PlymouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q741038The 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 1044654. 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.