Broughton, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45879. It stands on Horse Run. The Survey maps it on the Latty quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBroughton fell from 120 to 116 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 | 120 | |
| 2020 | 116 | -4 (-3%) |
Then and now
1914 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1914 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Latty quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Latty quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 714 shownMuseums hold 714 specimens collected within 10 miles of Broughton between 1893 and 1973: 714 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., CLARENCE CLARK, Collector(s): Harold H. Bailey 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Epitheca cynosura (Say, 1840) | 1943 | H. Price | Paulding Township, Baily gravel pit |
![]() | Gomphus graslinellus Walsh, 1862 | 1943 | H. Price | Klinger Gravel Pit, Jackson Township |
![]() | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio |
![]() | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio |
![]() | Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio |
![]() | Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio |
![]() | Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1909 | Collector(s): Harold H. Bailey | Payne |
![]() | Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1910 | Price, H. (Homer) | Paulding, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1912 | Price, H. (Homer) | Paulding, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808 | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne within corporation, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
All 714 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Broughton: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baughman Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Baughman Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
2 since 2007The National Weather Service names Broughton in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Broughton | $200,000 | Several reports of a funnel cloud were received prior to touchdown. The most extensive tornado damage occurred north of Road 82 along road 151 where several structures were impacted. An unanchored home was slid 18 feet off its foundation into the west side of a barn. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Broughton | - | A few trees and limbs were blown down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedges | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Latty | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Dague | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Paulding | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Goodwin (historical) | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Follmer (historical) | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Briceton | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Molasses Gap | 5.2 miles | 10 |
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 Broughton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2668846 | 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 1038365. 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.
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.























