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

Edgerton, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in St. Joseph Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43517. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton quadrangle. 1,881 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Edgerton within Williams County

Population over time

2 figures

Edgerton fell from 2,012 to 1,881 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	2,012
2020	1,881	-131 (-7%)

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Edgerton, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Edgerton, surveyed 1914

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 189 shown

Museums hold 189 specimens collected within 10 miles of Edgerton between 1893 and 1971: 164 Animalia, 23 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Anson A. Hinkley, Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley, Defiance College Ecology Class 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
Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Edgerton
Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)	1916	Anson A. Hinkley	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, North America
Gomphus laurae (Williamson, 1932)	1946	H. Price	St. Joseph's River, St. Joseph Township, taken near mouth of Fish Creek
Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)	1893	not recorded	Edgerton, Fish Lake
Apalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)	1893	not recorded	Edgerton
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)	1893	not recorded	Edgerton, Fish Lake
Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Josephs River, Edgerton, Ohio
Aspidium Sw.	1895	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	Florence
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1902	W. A. Kellerman	Edgerton

All 189 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Edgerton: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Hoffman Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Weber Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Williams County

Storms nearby

16 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Edgerton in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	1 killed	Local newspapers reported that a 18 year old male was killed as a result of strong winds blowing down a 12 foot high interior cinder block wall. The incident happened at a construction site at the Edgerton High School. No details were provided if the wall had been secured or was free standing.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	1 hurt, $200,000	An intense microburst with estimated winds at 100 mph was surveyed in the town of Edgerton. A large portion of the upper story of the old town hall building next to the fire department was blown in with loss of much of the roof. Debris from this structure damaged nearby vehicles and the flea market building across the street including a portion of the south-facing wall getting blown out. One person was injured at this location from falling debris. In addition, a freight container was blown off an intermodal train and there was significant tree damage in town. Wind damage path was about 3 miles long and a quarter of a mile wide.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	$10,000	Williams County sheriff reported trees and power lines down. Some trees had fallen onto houses.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	$5,000	Photos on Twitter show several large tree limbs down and one tree downed in Edgerton, intersection of North Michigan and Gas.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	$5,000	County officials reported tree limbs down as well as a few power lines.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	$5,000	Trees were downed, some on power lines.
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	Edgerton	$4,000	Brief touchdown damaged barn, some structural damage to house, tree snapped.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	$1,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	$500	Few trees down near Edgerton.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down, bringing down an electrical line.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	-	Several large trees were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Edgerton	-	Law enforcement reported power lines down in Edgerton.
March 2016	Hail	Edgerton	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Edgerton	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Edgerton	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Edgerton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williams 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
Mina	2.0 miles	12
Valley Springs Addition	2.9 miles	12
Denmark (historical)	2.9 miles	12
Melbern	5.3 miles	12
Blakeslee	5.3 miles	13
West Buffalo (historical)	5.4 miles	13
Krohns Acres	7.0 miles	13
Durham Estates	7.2 miles	13

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 Edgerton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666993	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 1048691. 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.