Port Clinton, Ohio

Port Clinton fell from 6,056 to 6,025 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 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 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.

• 1901 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Put In Bay quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Port Clinton quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Port Clinton quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 3,074 specimens collected within 10 miles of Port Clinton between 1828 and 1975: 2,572 Animalia, 435 Plantae, 63 Fungi, 3 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. J. Pieters, A. Woolman 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
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1898	not recorded	Portage River
	Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1898	United States Fish Commission	Sandusky Bay
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1898	United States Fish Commission & W. Kendall	Sandusky Bay near mouth of Sandusky River
	Pseudoleskea rigescens Lindb.	1828	Thomas Drummond	Banks of the Portage River
	Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770)	1865	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
	Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758	1879	not recorded
	Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1880	Porter, J.B.
	Riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.
	Tachycineta bicolor (Vieillot, 1808)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.
	Microsphaera ravenelii Berk.	1887	F. S. Earle	Catawba Island
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1894	C. Rutter	East end Sandusky Bay, Ohio
	Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)	1894	not recorded	Sandusky Bay, E end of

All 3,074 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Port Clinton: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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 Ottawa County

The National Weather Service names Port Clinton in 53 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 28 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 4 storm surge/tide, 3 flash flood. The reports record 22 injuries. 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 Ottawa County

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.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 5 issues spread across its run from 1948 to 1956, 2,836 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.

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 1061564. 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.