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

West Toledo, 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 43612. It stands on Sibley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Toledo quadrangle.

West Toledo 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 West Toledo, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of West Toledo, 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

2 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of West Toledo between 2019 and 2019, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEDFORD FD 0001996 - 2019
28 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEDFORD FD 0001429 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,369 shown

Museums hold 2,369 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Toledo between 1863 and 1975: 2,062 Animalia, 157 Fungi, 135 Plantae, 6 Unrecorded, 6 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aborn, R., Austing, G R, B H AND L W CAMPBELL 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
Erysiphe polygoni DC.	1900	F.D. Kelsey	Toledo
Lupinus perennis L.	1900	Kelsey, F.D.	America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
Lepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray	1863	Day, D.F.	Toledo
Nelumbium luteum Willd.	1866	Day, D.F.	Toledo
Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)	1885	Collector(s): J. A. Singley	Toledo
Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1885	Cooper, W.C.	Lambertville
Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray	1889	J. Y. Pennypacker	Toledo
Acris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 1947	1893	not recorded	Toledo, Maumee River
Apalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River Basin
Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	U.S. Fish Commission	TOLEDO, OHIO
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River Basin
Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1893	not recorded	Maumee River Basin

All 2,369 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of West Toledo: 4 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
(Facility) Toledo Refinery Gulf	Sulfur	Plant
White Brothers Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
White Brothers Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ferro Corp Ottawa Chemical Div	Iron	Producer
Interlake Inc/ Toledo, Ohio	Iron	Producer
Toledo Pickling & Steel Service Inc	Iron	Producer

Every working recorded in Lucas County

Storms nearby

18 since 1999

The National Weather Service names West Toledo in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2007	Flash Flood	West Toledo	$500,000	Thunderstorms redeveloped over Lucas County and dumped more heavy rain on the area. Rainfall rates again exceeded two inches per hour. A daily total of 4.04 inches was measured near downtown Toledo. Flooding resumed across portions of West Toledo, Sylvania and Toledo. Several roads had to be closed because of the flooding. More vehicles became stranded and at least two more people had to be rescued. Hundreds of homes sustained damage, mainly from basement flooding.
July 2006	Flash Flood	West Toledo	$350,000	An area of heavy rainfall developed over Lucas County during the morning hours of July 12th. In the western portion of Toledo, flood waters deep enough to cover the hoods of cars were reported. Rainfall estimates indicated that between two and four inches of rain fell across the area during the late morning and early afternoon hours. There was also a report of Shantee Creek flooding near Crawford Avenue.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	$50,000	As severe thunderstorms moved through the area, trees, large limbs and power lines were reported down from West Toledo to Point Place. Trained spotters estimated wind gusts to be between 55 and 60 mph.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	$25,000	Many large trees and limbs down. Utility wire down near the intersection of South and Reynolds Roads.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds tore some siding off of a house.
March 2003	Hail	West Toledo	$2,000	Penny size hail was observed.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two large tree limbs just west of West Toledo.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	$1,000	A few large limbs were reported down.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	-	Second-story window was blown-out of its frame and into the living quarters of a residence near intersection of Upton and Stahlwood Avenues in Toledo. Large tree branch downed at same location.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	-	Large tree limb downed near corner of Berdan Avenue and Willys Parkway on northwest side of Toledo.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	-	Tree uprooted at Bales Road and Wyndale Court; trees down near the intersection of West Laskey, Tremainsville, and Douglas Roads; tree down on house at Roseview Drive and Adella Street. All damage occurred in Toledo.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	-	Large tree fell onto house and caused structural damage in West Toledo.
June 2009	Hail	West Toledo	-	Penny size hail was observed on the west side of Toledo.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to be around 60 mph as severe thunderstorms moved through the area. No damage was observed with the wind gusts.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	West Toledo	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 2001	Hail	West Toledo	-	Dime size hail was reported.
July 1999	Flash Flood	West Toledo	-	Thunderstorms dumped one to two inches of rain over the area in less than an hour. Street flooding was reported throughout West Toledo with the intersection of Monroe and Douglas Streets under as much as two feet of water at times. Water above curb height was also reported along Secor and Central Avenues.

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
Mayfair Park	1.3 miles	16
Northgate	1.8 miles	16
Fitch	1.8 miles	16
Toledo	1.9 miles	16
Auburndale	1.9 miles	16
Mellwood	2.2 miles	16
Hallett	2.3 miles	16
Wernerts Corners	2.4 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122556781

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 1051525. 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.