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Trilby, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Toledo City. It lies in ZIP code area 43613. The Survey maps it on the Toledo quadrangle.

Trilby within Lucas County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Trilby, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Trilby, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 sheets

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.

Fires nearby

10 since 2018

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Trilby between 2018 and 2019, burning about 21 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0001996 - 2019
28 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0001429 - 2019
6 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0000973 - 2019
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0000755 - 2019
5 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0000740 - 2019
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTAWA LAKE FD 0000049 - 2019
24 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITEFORD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000083 - 2018
18 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTAWA LAKE FD 0000040 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,404 shown

Museums hold 2,404 specimens collected within 10 miles of Trilby between 1863 and 1975: 2,087 Animalia, 158 Fungi, 142 Plantae, 6 Unrecorded, 6 Protozoa, 5 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Aaron J. Sharp, Austing, G R 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Erysiphe polygoni DC.Erysiphe polygoni DC.1900F.D. KelseyToledo
Specimen of Lupinus perennis L.Lupinus perennis L.1900Kelsey, F.D.America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
A photograph of the species Lepachys pinnata, not of this specimenLepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray1863Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Nelumbium luteum, not of this specimenNelumbium luteum Willd.1866Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121877not recordedSummerfield
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1885Collector(s): J. A. SingleyToledo
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081885Cooper, W.C.Lambertville
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1889J. Y. PennypackerToledo
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471893not recordedToledo, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Apalone spinifera, not of this specimenApalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893U.S. Fish CommissionTOLEDO, OHIO
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin

All 2,404 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Trilby: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ottawa Lake QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ferro Corp Ottawa Chemical DivIronProducer
Interlake Inc/ Toledo, OhioIronProducer
Toledo Pickling & Steel Service IncIronProducer

Every working recorded in Lucas County

Storms nearby

5 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Trilby in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2017Thunderstorm WindTrilby$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindTrilby$2,000Thunderstorms downed a 36-inch diameter tree.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindTrilby-Several tree branches downed near corner of Clover Lane and West Alexis Road between Sylvania and Hopewell Heights.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindTrilby-Power pole snapped at intersection of Pawnee Road and McGregor Lane in Ottawa Hills.
September 2017HailTrilby-Penny sized hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Lucas County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Ferndale1.2 miles16
Wernerts Corners1.7 miles16
Mellwood1.7 miles16
Hopewell Heights2.3 miles16
Fitch2.3 miles16
Elden Heights2.4 miles15
Auburndale2.7 miles16
Mayfair Park3.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062583. 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.