Shorewood Village, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rice Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43420. It stands on Muskellunge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wightmans Grove quadrangle.
Then and now
1901 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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 Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Wightmans Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Wightmans Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Wightmans Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
9 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Shorewood Village between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 21 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 June 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 June 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 June 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,362 shownMuseums hold 1,362 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shorewood Village between 1865 and 1975: 1,302 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 16 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adams J. M. B., Adams J. M. R. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Adiantum pedatum L. | 1880 | Keeler, L.E. | Fremont. |
![]() | Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc. | 1896 | Day | Fremont |
![]() | Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829) | 1914 | Anson A. Hinkley | Sandusky River, Fremont, North America |
![]() | Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770) | 1865 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789 | 1880 | not recorded | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Larus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 1862 | 1881 | not recorded | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Carex frankii Kunth | 1889 | H. C. Beardslee | Green Spring. |
| Carex haleana Olney | 1890 | H. C. Beardslee Jr. | Green Spring | |
![]() | Carex hyalinolepis Steud. | 1890 | Collector unknown | Green Spring. |
![]() | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1890 | Harry S. Day | Fremont |
![]() | Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764) | 1891 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Neotibicen canicularis (Harris, 1841) | 1891 | not recorded | Fremont |
All 1,362 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Shorewood Village: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gottron Brothers Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Schlegels Grove | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Muncie Hollow | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Booktown | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Wightmans Grove | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Kingsway | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Golden Gate Estates | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Young's Colonial Acres | 3.8 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122561825 | 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 1083435. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.























