Rossford, Ohio

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

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

• Edward Ford Plate Glass Company Employee Relations Buildinglisted 2016
• Eagle Point Colony Historic Districtlisted 1983
• East River Road Historic District Ilisted 1976

Rossford grew from 6,293 to 6,299 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

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 Toledo quadrangle1:62500
• 1934 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:24000
• 1938 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Rossford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 152 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rossford between 1875 and 1975: 145 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Lose, Aborn, R., C. Rutter 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
	Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1907	L. L. Redick	Perrysburg
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1908	not recorded	Maumee
	Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1920	L. L. Redick	Perrysburg
	Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1875	Langdon	Indian Hill, Kane County
	Orconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee Basin
	Palaemonetes kadiakensis M.J.Rathbun, 1902	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee Basin
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1894	C. Rutter	Toledo (Perrysburg), Ohio
	Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)	1894	not recorded	Perrysburg, Maumee River
	Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1894	C. Rutter	Perrysburg, Presque Isle
	Dorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)	1894	C. Rutter	Maumee River at Perrysburg, Ohio
	Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1894	not recorded	Perrysburg, Maumee River
	Hiodon tergisus Lesueur, 1818	1894	C. Rutter	Maumee River at Perrysburg, Ohio

All 152 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rossford: 2 plants, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sulfur. 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 Wood County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rossford in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 Wood 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 1049137. 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.