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Hamler, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43524. The Survey maps it on the Hamler quadrangle. 600 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHamler grew from 576 to 600 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 | 576 | |
| 2020 | 600 | +24 (+4%) |
Then and now
1908 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Hamler quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Hamler quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
2 since 2019The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hamler between 2019 and 2020, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15239 |
| 7 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15949 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 94 shownMuseums hold 94 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hamler between 1919 and 1974: 88 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., C.R. Neiswander, Claud Revere Neiswander 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Tabanus atratus Fabricius, 1775 | 1937 | F. Bower | |
 | Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934) | 1939 | Claud Revere Neiswander | |
 | Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Holgate |
 | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Holgate |
 | Scalopus aquaticus machrinus (Rafinesque, 1832) | 1927 | Hoffman, C. P. | Washington Twp., Henry Co., Ohio, USA |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | South Branch Turkeyfoot Creek, within Flatrock township, near Malinta, Monroe township |
 | Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | South Branch Turkeyfoot Creek, within Flatrock township, near Malinta, Monroe township |
 | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Murphy, M. K. | Washington Twp.: ext. SE, Henry Co., Ohio |
 | Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Texas, Henry Co., Ohio |
 | Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782 | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Murphy, M. K. | Washington Twp.: ext. SE, Henry Co., Ohio |
 | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1932 | not recorded | |
 | Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1932 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Napoleon, Henry, Ohio, USA |
All 94 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
18 since 1994The National Weather Service names Hamler in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1994 | Hail | Hamler | $500,000 | Near Holgate,Large hail, driven by strong winds, broke windows and damaged siding, roofs, and cars. Crops were destroyed. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | $20,000 | Photos of various large branches down. Appears to be some siding damage to a home. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | $2,000 | Several large trees were blown down. A barn door was also blown in. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | - | The public reported a power line was blown down across a CSX crossing gate, preventing the gate from properly functioning. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | - | A trained spotter measured a 64 mph wind gust. Tree limbs in excess of eight inches were blown down by the strong winds. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | - | Widespread tree and tree limb damage was noted in and around the town of Hamler by NWS officials while conducting surveys of tornado damage in the area. All damage within the town of Hamler was the result of straight line winds. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | - | A NWS storm survey of damage at a farm indicated a combination of the remnant circulation of a tornado to the southwest of the site, as well as an anchoring failure, resulted in the collapse of a grain leg collapse and damage to several empty grain bins. The grain leg was anchored by a three point system, with the northeast side of the leg being unanchored. As the strong winds impacted an anchor on the southwest side, the leg began to buckle and shift, causing the bending of a large I-beam and the uplift of a cement block where an anchor was set to the northwest of the leg. The grain leg twisted and collapsed onto several bins. Given the failure of the anchoring, winds are estimated at around 80 mph. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Hamler | - | A NWS survey of damage north of Hamler indicated a circulation quickly intensified and touched down onto a barn, destroying it and throwing the debris to the northeast for nearly a half mile (DI: SBO DI: 6). Several large trees in the immediate area were snapped. An adjacent soybean field indicated a convergent wind pattern which continued towards a small grove of trees where the tornado dissipated. The maximum width was 50 yards with maximum wind speeds estimated at 95 mph. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | - | County dispatch reported a few trees down in town of unknown size. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | - | Emergency management officials reported a few tree limbs and power poles down. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Hamler | - | Amateur radio operators reported nickle size hail. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | - | Emergency management reported a train was derailed by high winds estimated to be near 80 mph. This wind was likely downburst winds from the collapse of the parent supercell that produce a tornado farther west in Henry minutes earlier. |
| April 2000 | Flood | Hamler | - | Minor street flooding. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | - | Winds to 70 mph were reported. Several trees were downed. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamler | - | Winds measured at 62 mph. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Hamler | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Hamler | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hamler | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2619012 | 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 1041273. 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.