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

Delta, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43515. The Survey maps it on the Delta quadrangle. 3,316 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Delta within Fulton County

Population over time

2 figures

Delta grew from 3,103 to 3,316 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	3,103
2020	3,316	+213 (+7%)

Then and now

1911 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delta, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Delta, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

15 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Delta between 2006 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
16 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15731
16 May 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 April 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 643 shown

Museums hold 643 specimens collected within 10 miles of Delta between 1894 and 1975: 620 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Conan J. Taylor, DDT, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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
Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)	1894	Edward Wilkinson	Wauseon
Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1894	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)	1897	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Fulton, Ohio, USA
Gomphus fraternus (Say, 1840)	1898	J. Hine	Wauseon
Sympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861)	1898	J. Hine	Wauseon
Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766	1899	not recorded	Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863	1902	not recorded	Wauseon
Pucciniastrum agrimoniae (Dietel) Tranzschel	1902	W. A. Kellerman
Pucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur	1902	W.A. Kellerman
Sarcophaga spatulata Aldrich, 1916	1902	Hine	Wauseon
Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1905	not recorded	Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)	1905	not recorded	Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA

All 643 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

18 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Delta in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2010	Tornado (EF2)	South Delta	$500,000	The tornado touched down along Highway 109 just north of County Road A and moved northeast, impacting several homes, trees and power lines. Several homes were severely damaged or destroyed (DI:FR12 DOD: 8). However, improper anchoring of some of the homes resulted in a failure on all walls, resulting in their destruction. Several trees were uprooted or damaged, including through the Maumee State Forest. The tornado ended near the Fulton/Lucas county line. The maximum width of the tornado was around 700 yards with maximum wind speeds estimated around 130 mph. Damage is estimated at $500,000.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	$100,000	Trained spotter reports thunderstorm wind damage in the form of 3 semi trucks blown over on the Ohio Turnpike near County Road 5-2 near the town of Delta.
June 2013	Lightning	Delta	$50,000	Lightning was indirectly the cause of structure fire on the 300 block of Wood Street. Fire officials reported that lightning struck a power line near the residence, with the live line impacting the residence and immediately started a fire. The house was a total loss.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	$25,000	Broadcast media relayed reports of thunderstorm wind damage of a barn with the doors blown off and a silo now leaning off of the concrete pad near the town of Delta.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	$10,000	Several trees were uprooted and power poles leaning across the southeastern part of the county.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	$10,000	Roof off of building.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	$10,000	SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN WITH SOME ROADS REPORTED BLOCKED. SEVERAL POWER POLES WERE ALSO REPORTED SNAPPED.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	$2,000	no account filed
April 2025	Flood	Delta	$1,000	Ohio DOT reports US 20A is closed in Delta due to water over the road as of 6am EDT.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	-	Local fire officials reported wires down on County Road 7.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	-	Spotter reported powerlines down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	South Delta	-	Emergency management officials reported a eight inch diameter tree limb down across the road at the intersection of County Road B and 8.
May 2007	Hail	Delta	-	Local newspaper articles reported hail slightly larger than the size of golf balls falling across the southern part of the county. Damage occurred to vehicles and homes across the area but no specific damage amounts were available.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	-	HAM radio operator reported trees down in Delta.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Delta	-	Power lines blown down.
April 2020	Hail	Delta	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Delta	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Delta	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Delta Heights	0.5 miles	15
Maplewood Park	0.6 miles	11
West Delta	0.9 miles	15
South Delta	1.3 miles	11
Peaceful Valley	2.6 miles	11
Haller (historical)	2.9 miles	15
Raker Corners	3.2 miles	11
Plattston (historical)	3.3 miles	15

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 Delta	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2173847	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 1079943. 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.

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.