The Estates of Fort Meigs, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1994

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
• 1935 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
• 1938 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:31680
• 1938 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:31680
• 1951 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Maumee 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
• 1964 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
• 1964 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
• 1964 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Maumee quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1897 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of The Estates of Fort Meigs between 2002 and 2015, burning about 6 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:

• Carrington Woods
• Crandenbrook
• D'Arcy Estates
• Hulls Crossing
• Kettle Run
• McKinley Woods

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Museums hold 286 specimens collected within 10 miles of The Estates of Fort Meigs between 1875 and 1975: 238 Animalia, 42 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Lose, Aborn, R., Angle, E. (Eric) 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
	Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1907	L. L. Redick	Perrysburg
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1908	not recorded	Maumee
	Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1920	L. L. Redick	Perrysburg
	Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1875	Langdon	Indian Hill, Kane County
	Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
	Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio

All 286 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of The Estates of Fort Meigs: 2 plants, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 Wood 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 1951990. 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.