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

Waterloo, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Symmes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45688. It stands on Johns Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Waterloo within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Waterloo, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Waterloo, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

170 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Waterloo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,008 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 71 were 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
Arson/incendiarism71
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestROUND BALE
25 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestBOULDER FIRE
12 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresWayne National ForestSUMMER DAY FIRE
28 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestTOWNHOUSE
27 June 2017Other causes1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8665

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 208 shown

Museums hold 208 specimens collected within 10 miles of Waterloo between 1896 and 1975: 199 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Kennedy, C. N. Wander, C. R. Neiswander 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 Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
A photograph of the species Illosporium malifoliorum, not of this specimenIllosporium malifoliorum J.Sheld.1909Starcher Bros.Gallia
A photograph of the species Coleosporium carneum, not of this specimenColeosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1916Houser J. S.Gallia
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Holcocephala calva, not of this specimenHolcocephala calva (Loew, 1872)1926C. Kennedy[not stated]
A photograph of the species Cremastus Gravenhorst, not of this specimenCremastus Gravenhorst, 18291927L. Stearns[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Wolfram, G. (George)Dean Forest, Decatur Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Natrix sipedon, not of this specimenNatrix sipedon sipedon1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Dean Forest, Decatur Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Peromyscus leucopus, not of this specimenPeromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio, USA

All 208 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Waterloo: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum, 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
Arabia Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Arabia Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lawrence ClayTitanium, Silica, Iron, AluminumOccurrence1859

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

11 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Waterloo in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2008FloodWaterloo$750,000The rains on the 3rd set up Lawrence County for significant small stream flooding during the afternoon and night on the 4th. Pine Creek, Little Pine Creek, Symmes Creek, Canoons Creek, Johns Creek and Little Ice Creek were the main culprits. About 4 mobile homes were destroyed due to water damage, mostly along Pine Creek and County Route 27. About 10 dwelling had major damage. A few bridges and several culverts were damaged. Landslides also occurred.
July 2015FloodWaterloo$325,000The gauge on Symmes Creek at Aid crested around 22.77 feet just before dawn on the 16th. Bankfull is around 19 feet. Water flooded fields, closed roads, and surrounded a few homes around Waterloo, Arabia, Aid, and Willow Wood. Preliminary damage assessment had 1 single family house with minor flood damage when a portion of its foundation was undercut by the stream. One other single family house had water in its basement, while a mobile home had water in its crawl space. The lower hay and corn fields along the stream were damaged. ||It took until late on the 17th before water levels receded back to below bankfull.
June 2003Flash FloodWaterloo$15,000Small streams feeding into Symmes Creek around Waterloo and Arabia flooded roads, including Route 141, after localized downpours of around 3 inches.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWaterloo$1,000Numerous large tree branches were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWaterloo$250A tree was blown down, which blocked both lanes of County Road 210.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWaterloo$250A tree was blown down and blocked both lanes of State Route 141 near Ford Street.
June 2022HailWaterloo-no account filed
June 2008HailWaterloo-no account filed
May 2005HailWaterloo-no account filed
June 1998HailWaterloo-no account filed
July 1998HailWaterloo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Sherritts2.6 miles12
Arabia3.0 miles14
Yarico4.4 miles14
Greasy Ridge4.8 miles14
Johns Creek (historical)5.5 miles12
Wilgus5.6 miles15
Lecta5.6 miles14
Saundersville6.9 miles14

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on WaterlooAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7974193The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1077142. 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.