Westgate Village Park, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1986

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.

• 1901 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Westgate Village Park between 2002 and 2002, 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Arcadia
• West Independence

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Museums hold 10 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westgate Village Park between 1929 and 1975: 10 Animalia. 9 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Hoke, B. & Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.), Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard). 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
	Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	The Outlet of Springville Marsh, within Biglick township, near Vanlue, Biglick township
	Ictalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	The Outlet of Springville Marsh, within Biglick township, near Vanlue, Biglick township
	Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	The Outlet of Springville Marsh, within Biglick township, near Vanlue, Biglick township
	Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.)	Portage River -- Lake Erie, South Branch Portage River, Twp.Rd. 226 & 287, 3.5 mi SE of Bloomingdale.
	Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.)	Portage River -- Lake Erie, South Branch Portage River, Twp.Rd. 226 & 287, 3.5 mi SE of Bloomingdale.
	Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.)	Portage River -- Lake Erie, South Branch Portage River, Twp.Rd. 226 & 287, 3.5 mi SE of Bloomingdale.
	Notropis chrysocephalus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.)	Portage River -- Lake Erie, South Branch Portage River, Twp.Rd. 226 & 287, 3.5 mi SE of Bloomingdale.
	Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.)	Portage River -- Lake Erie, South Branch Portage River, Twp.Rd. 226 & 287, 3.5 mi SE of Bloomingdale.
	Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.)	Portage River -- Lake Erie, South Branch Portage River, Twp.Rd. 226 & 287, 3.5 mi SE of Bloomingdale.

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

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2557125. 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.