Thelma, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Gorham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43521. It stands on Iron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morenci quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 1990The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1911 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Morenci quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Morenci quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Morenci quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
1 since 2011The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Thelma between 2011 and 2011, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,089 shownMuseums hold 1,089 specimens collected within 10 miles of Thelma between 1893 and 1975: 1,077 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ALVIN PYLE, CHAS M BUTLER, CLARENCE CLARK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Edward Wilkinson | Wauseon |
![]() | Puccinia menthae Pers. | 1893 | Fink B. | Fayette |
![]() | Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Gomphus fraternus (Say, 1840) | 1898 | J. Hine | Wauseon |
![]() | Sympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861) | 1898 | J. Hine | Wauseon |
![]() | Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766 | 1899 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863 | 1902 | not recorded | Wauseon |
| Pucciniastrum agrimoniae (Dietel) Tranzschel | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
![]() | Pucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur | 1902 | W.A. Kellerman | |
| Sarcophaga spatulata Aldrich, 1916 | 1902 | Hine | Wauseon | |
![]() | Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
All 1,089 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inlet | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Powers | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Tedrow | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Oakshade | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Ritters (historical) | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Ottokee Station | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Zone | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Fayette | 5.5 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056544. 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.
























