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

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.

Scotch Ridge within Wood County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Scotch Ridge, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Scotch Ridge, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 732 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1901Kellerman, W.A.Bowling Green
Specimen of Physoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.ShawPhysoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.Shaw1912E. G. ArzbergerStation grounds
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Calicium lenticulare, not of this specimenCalicium lenticulare Ach.1895E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B.Big Darby Creek, no more precise locality beyond township, near Darbydale OH, Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Aristida purpurascens, not of this specimenAristida purpurascens Poir.1901William KellermanNear Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Phyllachora lespedezae, not of this specimenPhyllachora lespedezae (Schwein.) Sacc.1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
A photograph of the species Uromyces lespedezae, not of this specimenUromyces lespedezae (Thüm.) Peck1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora abietis-canadensis (Farl.) C.A.Ludw.1902W.A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora populina (Jacq.) Lév.1902W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Stemphylium cucurbitacearum Osner1915Gilbert W. W.Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1917E L MOSELEYBOWLING GREEN

All 732 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2019

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindScotch Ridge-There was a report on social media of several trees blown down near Highway 199 and Alexander Road.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
New Rochester2.9 miles15
Pemberville3.3 miles12
Luckey3.8 miles12
Fenton (historical)4.0 miles14
Woodside4.6 miles14
Cloverdale5.0 miles15
Sugar Ridge5.6 miles14
Dunbridge6.0 miles14

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 RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14716802The 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.