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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Trowbridge, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43445. It stands on North Branch Turtle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Genoa quadrangle.

Trowbridge within Ottawa 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 Trowbridge, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Trowbridge, 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

5 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Trowbridge between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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 burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15765
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15763
22 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15677
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15920
17 October 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15854

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,533 shown

Museums hold 1,533 specimens collected within 10 miles of Trowbridge between 1825 and 1975: 1,508 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, AS Hazzard & party, Al Szuch 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
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.1825T. DrummondBanks of the Portage River
A photograph of the species Moxostoma macrolepidotum, not of this specimenMoxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893WoolmanTousaint River, Port Clinton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Tousaint River, 10 miles west of Port Clinton
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Tousaint River, 10 miles west of Port Clinton
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1893not recordedPort Clinton, 10 mi W of, Tousaint River
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedOak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedOak Harbor, Portage River
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio

All 1,533 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Trowbridge: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, Limestone, General, 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
Clay Center PlantStoneProducer
Rocky Ridge PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rocky Ridge QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
White Rock QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
White Rock Quarry L.P.CalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms nearby

3 since 2005

The National Weather Service names Trowbridge in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
April 2020FloodTrowbridge$400,000Record lake levels continued to lead to flooding along lakeshore locations from the Islands to Vermilion. Beach erosion, flooded marinas, and a few flooded local roads was ongoing throughout April impacting businesses. With north to northeast winds, wind-fueled waves crashed over break walls along the lakeshore surrounding some homes and closing additional roads including State Route 2.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindTrowbridge$20,000Several telephone poles were snapped along with downed power lines.
March 2026HailTrowbridge-Hail up to quarter-size about five-miles NNW of Rocky Ridge.

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Blackberry Corner1.6 miles16
Grodis Corner2.0 miles16
Elliston2.2 miles16
Middleton (historical)2.4 miles16
Sheldon (historical)2.6 miles16
Graytown2.8 miles16
Martin3.3 miles16
Williston3.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049251. 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.