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

Waterville, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Roche de Boeuf Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43566. It stands on Granger Island. The Survey maps it on the Maumee quadrangle. 6,003 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Waterville within Lucas County

Population over time

2 figures

Waterville grew from 5,523 to 6,003 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	5,523
2020	6,003	+480 (+9%)

Then and now

1900 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Waterville, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Waterville, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

4 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Waterville between 2002 and 2015, burning about 6 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
11 June 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 October 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1962
18 October 2002	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 758 shown

Museums hold 758 specimens collected within 10 miles of Waterville between 1860 and 1975: 668 Animalia, 83 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Lose, A.E. Daugherty 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1920	L. L. Redick	Perrysburg
Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1924	L. L. Redick	Perrysburg
Notropis hudsonius (Clinton, 1824)	1860	unknown	Grand Rapids, Maumee R.
Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1875	Langdon	Indian Hill, Kane County
Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1893	not recorded	Grand Rapids, Maumee River
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Grand Rapids, Ohio
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio
Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1893	not recorded	Grand Rapids, Maumee River
Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio

All 758 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 Waterville: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Waterville Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Waterville Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Toledo House of Correction Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Toledo House of Correction Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer

Every working recorded in Lucas County

Storms nearby

19 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Waterville in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Waterville and Toledo. A home was damaged by a tree on the east side of Toledo.
May 2010	Hail	Waterville	$25,000	Golf ball sized hail was observed. A few vehicles were damaged.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$10,000	Trees and power lines were reported down.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Waterville and Toledo.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$4,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs in Waterville.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$3,000	Several large limbs were reported down.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds toppled a very large tree.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and a large limb.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	-	Multiple large trees snapped about one-mile north of Waterville.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	-	Several large tree limbs blown down in Waterville.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	-	Several large trees limbers were blown down.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew over a semi truck on U.S. Highway 24 east of Whitehouse. The driver was not injured.
May 2007	Hail	Waterville	-	Penny size hail was observed.
August 2007	Flood	Waterville	-	Heavy rain fell across many areas of northwestern Ohio during the first half of the week from August 19th through the 22nd. Some locations across northwest Ohio picked up between 5 and 10 inches of rain during this time. The Maumee River gage at Waterville showed that the river gradually rose through the day on the 20th and 21st, and then went above flood stage of 9.0 feet just before 7:00 pm on the 21st. The river continued to rise through the entire day of the 22nd and much of the day on the 23rd. The river finally crested during the evening of the 23rd at around 11.9 feet. Over the next several days the river slowly fell as it had to handle drainage from upstream rivers, including the Blanchard River. The river remained above flood stage for just over four and a half days, and finally fell below flood stage during the afternoon hours of August 26.
August 1998	Hail	Waterville	-	Some crops were damaged.
May 1999	Hail	Waterville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Waterville	-	no account filed

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Presque Isle (historical)	2.5 miles	17
Homewood	3.0 miles	17
Neowash (historical)	3.2 miles	16
Tondagamies Village (historical)	3.5 miles	16
Monclova	4.1 miles	17
Bailey	4.6 miles	16
Whitehouse	4.7 miles	15
Business Corner	5.1 miles	17

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 Waterville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2670498	The 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 1056562. 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.