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

Sherwood, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Delaware Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43556. It stands on Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sherwood quadrangle. 802 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Sherwood within Defiance County

Population over time

2 figures

Sherwood fell from 827 to 802 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.

YearPeople Change
2010827
2020802-25 (-3%)

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sherwood, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sherwood, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Delaware township, in the words of 1883.

1883, Delaware Township

Memorial Amd Biographical Record Oe

Tennessee; Sand Mountain, Alabama; Black Warrior Creek, Alabama; Blount's Farm, Alabama; and many skirmishes with bushwhackers. May 3, 1863, he was captured and was sent to Atlanta, where | he was held for a few days and then transferred, to Knoxville, and finally to Richmond, where he was held in captivity at Belle Isle prison for a fortnight.

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Specimens collected nearby

12 of 681 shown

Museums hold 681 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sherwood between 1860 and 1973: 680 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Angle, E. (Eric) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Angle, E. (Eric), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hoschak, J. (John), Bays, J. (John) 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 Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
Specimen of Boyeria vinosa (Say, 1840)Boyeria vinosa (Say, 1840)1944H. PriceLost Creek, Bricker Stock Farm on State Route 2
Specimen of Gomphus spicatus Hagen, 1854Gomphus spicatus Hagen, 18541945H. PriceKrill's Lake
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1888S. MeekMaumee River, Cecil, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Aphredoderus sayanus, not of this specimenAphredoderus sayanus (Gilliams, 1824)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Erimyzon Jordan, not of this specimenErimyzon Jordan, 18761888D. Jordan et al.Ohio: Gordon Creek, Cicero.

All 681 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Sherwood in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
February 2008FloodSherwood$20,000Local media reported that portions of State Route 424 in Defiance county had water on it.
April 2026Tornado (EF1)Sherwood-A NWS damage assessment determined that an EF-1 rain-wrapped|tornado was embedded in a line of severe thunderstorms that went|through Defiance during the afternoon of April 4th. Beginning on|the southwest side of town, the tornado produced some minor|shingle/tree damage. At least one home was likely destroyed due|to a fallen tree. Sporadic, significant tree damage was observed|through Riverside Cemetery. The tornado then nearly paralleled S|Clinton St as it moved from southwest to northeast. The most|impressive damage was done near Davidson and S. Clinton St where|several trunks were snapped, a branch lodged into a roof, and|several wooden transmission lines were snapped. The circulation|continued into downtown Defiance, uprooting/snapping trees, and|producing minor to moderate roof damage to numerous businesses|including a large church, bank, and USPS building, among others.|Notable tree damage was done at the Old Fort before the tornado|crossed the river confluence. Video footage from residence|confirms a circulation made it across the river. Widespread|additional tree and roof damage was then noted in the|neighborhoods just north of the Maumee River and west of|Carpenter Rd. Finally, several trunks were snapped or uprooted in|the Eagle Rock Golf Course before the circulation appears to have|dissipated.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSherwood-A tree fell into a house.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSherwood-Emergency management officials reported roof damage to roughly 15 homes, businesses and apartment complexes.
July 2017HailSherwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Defiance 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
The Bend2.0 miles11
Moats3.4 miles11
Mark Center4.1 miles11
Ashwood (historical)5.5 miles12
Ney6.7 miles13
Rosedale7.2 miles11
Wilseyville (historical)7.6 miles11
Farmer7.8 miles12

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 SherwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459772The 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 1046206. 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.