Scotch Ridge, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Webster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43450. It stands on Yankey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dunbridge quadrangle. It stands 2,162 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1901 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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 Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Dunbridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Dunbridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Dunbridge quadrangle1:24000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 732 shownMuseums hold 732 specimens collected within 10 miles of Scotch Ridge between 1894 and 1975: 697 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 5 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, L. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh. | 1901 | Kellerman, W.A. | Bowling Green |
![]() | Physoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.Shaw | 1912 | E. G. Arzberger | Station grounds |
![]() | Icterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Geo W. Dean | Wayne |
![]() | Calicium lenticulare Ach. | 1895 | E. E. Bogue | |
![]() | Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1897 | Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B. | Big Darby Creek, no more precise locality beyond township, near Darbydale OH, Pleasant Township |
![]() | Aristida purpurascens Poir. | 1901 | William Kellerman | Near Bowling Green |
![]() | Phyllachora lespedezae (Schwein.) Sacc. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Bowling Green |
![]() | Uromyces lespedezae (Thüm.) Peck | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Bowling Green |
| Melampsora abietis-canadensis (Farl.) C.A.Ludw. | 1902 | W.A. Kellerman | Bowling Green | |
| Melampsora populina (Jacq.) Lév. | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | Bowling Green | |
| Stemphylium cucurbitacearum Osner | 1915 | Gilbert W. W. | Bowling Green | |
![]() | Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825) | 1917 | E L MOSELEY | BOWLING GREEN |
All 732 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2019The National Weather Service names Scotch Ridge in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scotch Ridge | - | There was a report on social media of several trees blown down near Highway 199 and Alexander Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Rochester | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Pemberville | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Luckey | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Fenton (historical) | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Woodside | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Cloverdale | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Sugar Ridge | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Dunbridge | 6.0 miles | 14 |
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 Scotch Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14716802 | The 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 1084140. 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.
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.






















