Rocky Ridge, Ohio

Rocky Ridge fell from 417 to 312 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 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 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.

• 1900 USGS Oak Harbor quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Oak Harbor quadrangle1:62500
• 1952 USGS Oak Harbor quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Oak Harbor quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Oak Harbor quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Oak Harbor quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 2,602 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rocky Ridge between 1825 and 1975: 2,574 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Al Szuch, Albiet, P. 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
	Hygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.	1825	T. Drummond	Banks of the Portage River
	Pseudoleskea rigescens Lindb.	1828	Thomas Drummond	Banks of the Portage River
	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.
	Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1894	C. Rutter	Portage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1894	C. Rutter	Portage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
	Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)	1894	C. Rutter	Portage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
	Cerastium velutinum var. velutinum	1895	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	Lakeside Marblehead [Peninsula], Hartshorn's Dock
	Myosotis verna Nutt.	1895	E. L. Moseley
	Elsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins	1896	Selby A. S.	Elmore

All 2,602 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rocky Ridge: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 Rocky Ridge in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 Ottawa 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 1061627. 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.