BlockShreve, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44676. The Survey maps it on the Shreve quadrangle. 1,497 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1912 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Shreve
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 11 records
- Hotel CarlHotel, in the atlas of 1905 to 1950
- Christian ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1913 to 1950
- Milton Presbyterian ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1913 to 1950
- City HallCity Hall, in the atlas of 1950
- Eddy & Merkle, Grain WarehouseWarehouse, in the atlas of 1913
- Grey & Smith, Roller MillMill, in the atlas of 1913
- High SchoolSchool, in the atlas of 1950
- Methodist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1950
- Methodist Episcopal ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1913
- Post OfficeIce House, in the atlas of 1950
- Shreve High School, ShopsShop, in the atlas of 1950
Population over time
2 figuresShreve fell from 1,514 to 1,497 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,514 | |
| 2020 | 1,497 | -17 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed 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.
- 1912 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Shreve quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
10,152 words on this townshipHistory of Wayne County, Ohio, from the Days of the Pioneers and the First Settlers to the Present Time, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Clinton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first church was built by the Disciples, about one and one-half miles northeast of Shreve, on the farm of James Moore. Revs. John Chester, Lewis Comar, Jewell Mitchell, etc., were the pioneer ministers of this denomination.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Ohio, from the Days of the Pioneers and the First Settlers to the Present Time, published 1878.
The Baptist church was organized in 1816, by Priest Jones and David Kimpton, and its earlier members were James, Jonathan and William Wells, John and Stephen Lamert, Charles Isbell, Alpheus French. Its first minister was Rev. Alpheus French, who was licensed the year the church was constructed. The present Baptist church was built in 1855, by Samuel Bennington. In this township in the early days were the following distilleries, owned by Almond Aylesworth, Henry Shreve, Thomas McConkey, Thomas A. Brown, Mahaley McConkey, one on the land formerly owned by Samuel Power, and another near the mill of Joseph Newkirk, conducted by John Comer. * * Cornelius Quick built the rst mill, at the outlet of the lake, 1825 ; his dam back-watered the region, and raised the lake about eighteen inches. Nathan G. Odell sold the land, as he did not desire litigation, to John Comer at a reduced price. Comer bore a law-suit and soon "whaled " it to Quick. It remained in court a number of years, and, as protracted and malicious litigations do, well-nigh broke up both parties.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Ohio, from the Days of the Pioneers and the First Settlers to the Present Time, published 1878.
Thomas McConkey, was born in Washington county. Pa., in 1 78 1, and removed to Ohio about the beginning of the war of 1 8 12. He first stopped a short time in Wooster, purchased a farm near Millbrook, remained there a year, and then removed to the farm a short distance east of Shreve, where he lived until his death, Feburary 29, 1869, having in the meantime accumulated seven hundred acres of land. He was married to Elizabeth Hague, and had two sons and seven daughters. He was a member of the Disciple church, and served three years as Justice.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Ohio, from the Days of the Pioneers and the First Settlers to the Present Time, published 1878.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Clinton Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Shreve between 2004 and 2010, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,266 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,266 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shreve between 1877 and 1975: 1,859 Animalia, 223 Plantae, 145 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Aster ciliolatus Lindl. | 1877 | Thorne, B.H. | Station Farm, Wooster |
 | Eupatorium sessilifolium L. | 1889 | Duvel, J.W.T | Fredericksburg |
 | Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
| Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster | |
 | Certhia americana americana Bonaparte, 1838 | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
| Corthylio calendula calendula | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster | |
 | Cyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 1921 | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Eremophila alpestris alpestris (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
All 2,266 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
20 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shreve in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Shreve | $117,000 | The tornado began just north of Centerville Road, about one-mile SSW of Shreve, and destroyed a barn. As the tornado moved east-southeastward in vicinity of Centerville Road, it destroyed another barn and damaged the roofs of two additional barns and a storage shelter. Several trees were snapped and uprooted in vicinity of Schaaf and Centerville Roads before the tornado moved into Holmes County. Estimated peak tornadic winds were 105 mph. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | $75,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed 20 to 30 trees one mile east of Shreve along Valley Road. At least one home was damaged by the fallen trees. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | $10,000 | Many trees were reported down in the area. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | $9,000 | Significant damage to barn roof in Shreve and trees downed about one-mile east of Shreve. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | $7,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and large limbs. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | $4,000 | A few large limbs were reported down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | $3,000 | Several trees were downed in the southern part of the county. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | - | Tree uprooted about six-miles NNW of Shreve. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Shreve | - | Quarter sized hail was observed. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Shreve | - | A supercell thunderstorm produced quarter size hail. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Shreve | - | Thunderstorms produced penny sized hail. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Shreve | - | Nickel size hail was observed. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Shreve | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Shreve | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shreve | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Shreve | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Shreve | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centerville | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Stringtown | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Custaloga (historical) | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Kauke | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Millbrook | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Craigton | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Springville | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Moreland | 4.6 miles | 18 |
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 Shreve | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2203942 | 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 1046248. 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.
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.