Berkey Ohio Map

About Berkey, Ohio

Berkey is a locality in Lucas County, Ohio, United States. It is a small community with a population of 275. The population density is 25.0 people per km². Berkey is located at 41.7156°N, 83.8394°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Berkey is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 43504.

Berkey anchors itself upon the flat, expansive plains of northwestern Ohio, where the horizon stretches wide under a sky that feels immense and unburdened. It lies 5.4 miles west-northwest of Sylvania Township, OH (from Sylvania Township, OH: bearing 289°T), and is situated 6.5 miles west of Sylvania. Tenmile Creek marks the northern edges of the landscape, its slow, deliberate current carving a path through the dark, fertile soil that characterizes this corner of the state. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Irish Hills provide a faint, serrated edge to the skyline, while the heavy, loam-rich earth of the Ottawa Lakebed suggests the ancient, vanished waters that once shaped the basin. During the autumn months, a peculiar, bruised purple light settles over the fields at dusk, casting long shadows that seem to hold the stillness of the deep interior.

Berkey maintains a quiet, agrarian temperament, rooted in the legacy of settlers who recognized the promise in the stubborn, productive clay of the Maumee River watershed. The local economy persists as a deliberate extension of the land, defined by the seasonal pulse of harvest and the maintenance of homesteads that have weathered generations of midwestern winters. Residents often venture toward Secor Metropark to find the quietude of oak openings, or look toward the Metamora Reservoir as a local point of stillness in the landscape. Life in Berkey moves with the steady, predictable cadence of the seasons, honoring a heritage of industriousness that remains etched into the simple, functional architecture of the barns and the orderly lines of the surrounding crop rows.

About This Berkey Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Berkey, Ohio. Coordinates: 41.715606, -83.839385. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Berkey includes the ZIP code (43504), telephone area code (740), county seat of Lucas County (Toledo), and school district assignment (Evergreen Local School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.