Texas, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43532. It stands on Bad Creek. The Survey maps it on the Colton quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1909 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1909 USGS Mc Clure quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Mc Clure quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Colton quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Colton quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Colton quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
4 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Texas between 2012 and 2020, burning about 9 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 | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15820 |
| 4 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15804 |
| 21 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 October 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15864 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 68 shownMuseums hold 68 specimens collected within 10 miles of Texas between 1898 and 1975: 60 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 3 Plantae, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Dabney Hart, G. Steyskal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh. | 1919 | W.G. Stover | Liberty Center |
![]() | Dromogomphus spinosus Selys, 1854 | 1898 | J. Hine | Napoleon |
![]() | Dromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858) | 1898 | J. Hine | Napoleon |
![]() | Libellula luctuosa Burmeister, 1839 | 1898 | J. Hine | Napoleon |
![]() | Perithemis tenera (Say, 1840) | 1898 | J. Hine | Napoleon |
![]() | Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Liberty Center |
![]() | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Napoleon |
![]() | Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz | 1927 | Moseley, E.L. | Wabash RR, Washington Twp |
![]() | Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1927 | MB Troutman | Bad Creek, near and at border. |
![]() | Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817) | 1927 | MB Trautman | Bad Creek, near and at border of Henry Co. |
![]() | Carpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bad Creek, Washington Township, near Liberty Center, Washington township |
![]() | Eleocharis erythropoda Steud. | 1927 | Moseley, E.L. | Wabash RR, Washington Twp |
All 68 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 Texas: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gerken Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
7 since 2010The National Weather Service names Texas in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas | 1 hurt | Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down near the intersection of County Road 424 and County Road 4A. The tree was reported to have landed on a car, but no further details were available. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas | - | Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto power lines. |
| August 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Texas | - | A law enforcement officer saw a brief touchdown in a field. Only crop damage occurred. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas | - | Emergency management officials reported trees down at two separate intersections. The first was at Route 424 and County Road 4, with the second at Route 424 and County Road 2B. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas | - | Emergency management officials reported a semi was overturned by the strong winds on US 24, near the Henry/Lucas county line. Numerous reports of trees and power lines being blown down were received across the county. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas | - | Emergency management officials reported power lines were down along a three mile stretch of State Road 65, between the Wood/Henry county line to the intersection of State Road 65 and 110. This forced the closure of the road while clean-up occurred. In addition, numerous trees were blown down along the same stretch. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texas | - | Law enforcement officials reported large tree limbs down on County Road 4A, just north of US 24. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colton | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Liberty Center | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Damascus (historical) | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| McClure | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Grelton | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Shunk | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Ratsville | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Cloverleaf (historical) | 7.4 miles | 12 |
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 Texas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22341029 | 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 1049244. 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.























