Sylvania, Ohio

Sylvania grew from 18,965 to 19,011 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.

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1986

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.

• 1900 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:31680
• 1937 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sylvania between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Elden Heights
• Trilby
• Centennial
• Ferndale
• Hopewell Heights
• Bowen (historical)

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Museums hold 1,862 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sylvania between 1863 and 1975: 1,542 Animalia, 156 Fungi, 151 Plantae, 6 Unrecorded, 5 Chromista, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Aaron J. Sharp, B H AND L W CAMPBELL 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
	Erysiphe polygoni DC.	1900	F.D. Kelsey	Toledo
	Lupinus perennis L.	1900	Kelsey, F.D.	America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
	Lepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray	1863	Day, D.F.	Toledo
	Nelumbium luteum Willd.	1866	Day, D.F.	Toledo
	Caprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 1812	1877	not recorded	Summerfield
	Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)	1885	Collector(s): J. A. Singley	Toledo
	Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1885	Cooper, W.C.	Lambertville
	Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray	1889	J. Y. Pennypacker	Toledo
	Apalone spinifera spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)	1894	not recorded	TOLEDO, GRASSY POINT
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1894	United States Bureau of Fisheries	Ohio, Toledo
	Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)	1894	not recorded	Toledo, Ohio
	Stizostedion vitreum (Mitchill, 1818)	1894	C. Rutter	Toledo, Ohio

All 1,862 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sylvania: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 Lucas County

The National Weather Service names Sylvania in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 Lucas County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061668. 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.