Elida, Ohio

Elida grew from 1,905 to 1,923 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 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 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.

• 1906 USGS Columbus Grove quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Columbus Grove 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 Elida quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Elida quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Elida quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 256 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elida between 1865 and 1975: 236 Animalia, 18 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by *ood, Almen N., Adler, K. K., Amstutz, K. 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
	Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1908	not recorded	Auglaize River, Defiance
	Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)	1908	Bureau of Fisheries	Auglaize River, Defiance
	Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)	1908	not recorded	Auglaize River, Defiance
	Lophanthus nepetoides (L.) Benth.	1865	Holzer, L.	Delphos
	Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1893	not recorded	Cloverdale, Sugar Creek
	Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)	1893	PH Kirsch	Sugar Creek, 2 miles north of Lima; Maumee River dr.
	Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1893	P. Kirsch	Lost Creek, Lima, Ohio
	Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)	1893	not recorded	Lima, Sugar Creek
	Nerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Lima, Sugar Creek
	Regina septemvittata (Say, 1825)	1893	not recorded	Lima, Sugar Creek
	Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Lima, Sugar Creek
	Amanita frostiana (Peck) Sacc.	1902	C. W. Dawson	Lima

All 256 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Elida in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Allen 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 1064608. 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.