Waterloo, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 43110. It stands on Dove Run. The Survey maps it on the Canal Winchester quadrangle.
Then and now
1925 to 1984The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Waterloo
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 5 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Barnhardt-Bolenbaugh Houselisted 1989 · 0.9 miles away
Christian Gayman Houselisted 1989 · 0.9 miles away
Foor-Alspach Houselisted 1989 · 1.0 miles away
William King Houselisted 1989 · 1.0 miles away- Columbus Street Historic Districtlisted 1988 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed 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.
- 1925 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Waterloo between 2012 and 2020, burning about 25 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Wayne National Forest | SR 522 |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15924 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 615 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 615 specimens collected within 10 miles of Waterloo between 1895 and 1975: 604 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. A. Petrovic, C. H. R., Caldwell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erysiphe cichoracearum DC. | 1895 | F.L. Stevens | ||
![]() | Allocapnia vivipara (Claassen, 1924) | 1896 | not recorded | |
![]() | Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Masons Run, Franklin County, Ohio |
![]() | Cambarus robustus Girard, 1852 | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Alum Creek |
![]() | Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1897 | Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) | Big Walnut Creek, near confluence with Alum and Blacklick Creeks, 2.0 miles NW of Groveport OH, NW Madison Township |
| Etheostoma sciotense Osburn & Williamson, 1898 | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Big Walnut Creek, tributary of Scioto River, Ohio | |
![]() | Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Masons Run, Franklin County, Ohio |
![]() | Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Scioto Big Run, Franklin County, Ohio |
![]() | Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Ohio or New York, Franklin County, Big Walnut |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Ohio or New York, Franklin County, Big Walnut |
![]() | Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Scioto Big Run, Franklin County, Ohio |
| Noturus gyrinus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1897 | Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B. | Mason Run, Big Walnut and Mason's Run, Franklin County, township n/a |
All 615 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kramers Addition | 1.0 miles | 16 | |
| Lombardy Heights | 1.3 miles | 16 | |
| Washington Knoll | 1.3 miles | 16 | |
| Beckley Addition | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Winchester Park Addition | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Villas At Charleston Lake | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| The Villages At Winchester | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| Lehman Estates | 2.3 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049296. 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.

















