Elgin, Ohio

Elgin fell from 57 to 49 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.

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 1986

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.

• 1911 USGS Spencerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Spencerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 58 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elgin between 1837 and 1975: 53 Animalia, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Foster, T. (Todd), Frank, H. Price 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
	Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842)	1942	H. Price	St. Mary's River
	Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890	1942	H. Price	St. Mary's River
	Geranium maculatum L.	1837	Frank	Van Wert Co., Ohio
	Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.	1850	not recorded	Ohio City.
	Lophanthus nepetoides (L.) Benth.	1865	Holzer, L.	Delphos
	Aphredoderus sayanus (Gilliams, 1824)	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Marys River, Rockford, Ohio
	Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1922	not recorded	No specific locality recorded.
	Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Little Auglaize River triburary, within Jennings township, near Venedocia, Jennings township
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
	Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
	Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Little Auglaize River triburary, within Jennings township, near Venedocia, Jennings township

All 58 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Elgin in 1 storm report between 2004 and 2004: 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Van Wert County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1040112. 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.

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.