Strongs Ridge, Ohio

The 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.

1901 1986

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• John Wright Mansionlisted 1974 · 0.2 miles away

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.

• 1901 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1959 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Strongs Ridge in 2002, burning about 1 acre 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 278 specimens collected within 10 miles of Strongs Ridge between 1893 and 1975: 254 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, B Zahuranec & party, C F WALKER AND JOHN ANDERSON 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
	Rumex verticillatus L.	1896	Stair, L. D.
	Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	A. Woolman	Ohio, Huron River, Monroeville
	Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs	1893	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	Milan, Huron River
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1893	not recorded	Ohio, Monroeville, Huron River
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1893	not recorded	Ohio, Monroeville, Huron River
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	not recorded	Ohio, Monroeville, Huron River
	Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1893	not recorded	Ohio, Monroeville, Huron River
	Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)	1893	not recorded	Monroeville, Huron River
	Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)	1893	A. Woolman	Ohio, Huron River, Monroeville
	Noturus flavus Rafinesque, 1818	1893	A. Woolman	Ohio, Huron River, Monroeville
	Bidens laevis (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1894	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	Huron River, Milan
	Chelone glabra L.	1894	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	near Milan

All 278 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Strongs Ridge: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, 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.

Every working recorded in Huron County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strongs Ridge in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Huron County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063408. 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.

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.