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

Dupont, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45831. It stands on Blanchard River. The Survey maps it on the Continental quadrangle. 212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Dupont within Putnam County

Population over time

2 figures

Dupont fell from 318 to 212 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	318
2020	212	-106 (-33%)

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dupont, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Dupont, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the county-history sources

1,613 words on this township

History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Perry Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Franconia was the first town laid out in the township. It was laid out by Amos Kendall in 1837 and the first store was kept by Parlee Carlin. A double log cabin, which was featured by Howe as a "Home in the Wilderness," was erected by Sebastian Shroufe, and P. B. Holden later kept a tavern in the same building. While Franconia was a flourishing little center of trade for a number of years, it has long since disappeared and nothing now remains of what was once hoped would be a substantial town. Other towns in this township include Cloverdale (Drucilla), Dupont, Cascade and Huntstown.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

Dupont was for many years the largest town in the township. It was platted in 1877 and named in honor of Rear Admiral S. F. Dupont, of the United States navy, a postoffice of that name having been established in the year 1864. The mail route at that time rail from Ottawa to Charloe, twenty-six miles, and was traveled once a week.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

Dupont was incorporated in 1888 and E. W. Dimock was chosen. to serve as the first mayor. This village began to grow and its prosperity seemed assured, but occasionally the healthiest child fails to become the strongest man. In the height of the town's prosperity there were two stave-mills which did an extensive business, two hotels, tile-mill, saw-mills, an axehandle factory, and five general merchandise stores. The population of the town was about seven hundred. Then came the decline.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Perry Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 86 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dupont between 1893 and 1969: 86 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Blyth & Katz, Creamer, D. 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
Lampsilis ventricosa (Barnes, 1823)	1893	not recorded	Blanchard River
Sympetrum internum Montgomery, 1943	1956	H. Price	Palmer Township, Miller City tile pond
Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1893	P. Kirsch	Sugar Creek, Cloverdale
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)	1893	not recorded	Cloverdale, Auglaize River
Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Noturus flavus Rafinesque, 1818	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Cloverdale, Ohio
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Sugar Cr. Twp: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio
Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Sugar Creek Twp.: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio
Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Ottawa Twp., Putnam Co., Ohio

All 86 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dupont: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Glandorf Tile Co Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dupont in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Dupont	-	Numerous interviews with residents southeast of Dupont, Ohio described the rotating wall cloud with funnel clouds lowering as the storm passed over. This tornado formed just south of the Auglaize River in the middle of a corn field. Tree damage was noted in the tree line on the south side of the river. Residents in Dupont reported the tornado lifted water from the river before intensifying and accelerating to the north. The tornado continued through the middle of Dupont and exited the north side of the town moving north-northeast into a field of beans before dissipating north of town. Minor damage was noted to siding, roofs, trees and crops. Damage was consistent with maximum winds of 65 MPH.
October 2010	Tornado (EF1)	Dupont	-	This tornado is a continuation of the Paulding County tornado, which crossed into Putnam County. The tornado continued rapidly northeast, damaging several barns at a property on the east side of County Road 263, north of Township Road G. One barn was destroyed with two others suffering significant damage. In addition to the barn damage, a detached garage for the residence was destroyed and a corn crib was pushed four feet off its foundation. Additional damage was found along State Route 613, west of County Road 24, where trees were damaged and a home suffered the loss of some shingles, as well as near County Highway E and County Road 24. The last damage was found near the intersection of Township Road D and Township Highway 23 where the roof of a barn was torn off. The debris was thrown into an adjacent field, with the circulation then lifting. Maximum winds are estimated at around 100 mph.
November 2003	Hail	Dupont	-	Emergency management reported one inch hail near Dupont.
November 2003	Hail	Dupont	-	A trained spotter reported nickel size hail in Dupont.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dupont	-	Large trees down.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Franconia (historical)	1.0 miles	12
Cloverdale	2.5 miles	12
Cascade	2.6 miles	12
Hartsburg	2.7 miles	12
East Mandale	3.0 miles	12
Huntstown (historical)	3.5 miles	12
Continental	3.6 miles	12
Hector	5.1 miles	11

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 Dupont	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2439967	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 1048670. 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.