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

Reno Beach, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jerusalem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43412. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reno Beach quadrangle.

Reno Beach within Lucas County

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 Reno Beach, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Reno Beach, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

11 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Reno Beach between 2013 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15811
30 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15765
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15763
22 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15677
22 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOttawa National Wildlife RefugePOACHER HIGHWAY FIRE
25 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15522
9 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15919
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15920

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 583 shown

Museums hold 583 specimens collected within 10 miles of Reno Beach between 1892 and 1975: 570 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by AS Hazzard & party, Al Szuch, Anson A. Hinkley 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 Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758Esox lucius Linnaeus, 17581894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Moxostoma macrolepidotum, not of this specimenMoxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Cambarus diogenes, not of this specimenCambarus diogenes Girard, 18521894C. RutterToledo, Presque Isle
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Lepisosteus osseus, not of this specimenLepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1894not recordedToledo, Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Notropis heterolepis, not of this specimenNotropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 18931894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Percina copelandi, not of this specimenPercina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)1894C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
Pomoxis nigromaculatus (Lesueur, 1829)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo

All 583 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Reno Beach in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindReno Beach$100,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Jerusalem Township. Numerous trees were downed, many boats overturned and campers evacuated at Reno Beach and Maumee Bay State Park.
August 2013HailReno Beach-The public reported penny size hail east of Toledo.

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
Lakeland0.7 miles14
Lakemont Landing0.9 miles14
Howard Farms Beach1.4 miles11
Bono1.9 miles14
New Jerusalem (historical)2.4 miles14
Yondota2.8 miles14
Niles Beach5.6 miles14
Curtice6.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049117. 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.

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.