Malinta, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43535. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Malinta quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMalinta fell from 265 to 236 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 | 265 | |
| 2020 | 236 | -29 (-11%) |
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
12 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 Napoleon quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Napoleon 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 Malinta quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Malinta quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Malinta quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
3 since 2020The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Malinta between 2020 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15766 |
| 7 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15949 |
| 5 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15888 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 137 shownMuseums hold 137 specimens collected within 10 miles of Malinta between 1898 and 1974: 118 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 2 Bacteria. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh. | 1919 | W.G. Stover | Liberty Center |
![]() | Tabanus atratus Fabricius, 1775 | 1937 | F. Bower | |
![]() | Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934) | 1939 | Claud Revere Neiswander | |
![]() | Dromogomphus spinosus Selys, 1854 | 1898 | J. Hine | Napoleon |
![]() | Dromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858) | 1898 | J. Hine | Napoleon |
![]() | Libellula luctuosa Burmeister, 1839 | 1898 | J. Hine | Napoleon |
![]() | Perithemis tenera (Say, 1840) | 1898 | J. Hine | Napoleon |
![]() | Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Holgate |
![]() | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Holgate |
![]() | Carpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bad Creek, Washington Township, near Liberty Center, Washington township |
![]() | Roccus chrysops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Maumee River, within Henry Co, Henry County, township n/a |
![]() | Scalopus aquaticus machrinus (Rafinesque, 1832) | 1927 | Hoffman, C. P. | Washington Twp., Henry Co., Ohio, USA |
All 137 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
8 since 2000The National Weather Service names Malinta in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malinta | - | Emergency management officials reported numerous trees down and a garage door blown in. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Malinta | - | A NWS Storm survey indicated that a circulation rapidly touched down at a residence on the south side of County Road J. A detached garage suffered extensive damage, as well as an adjacent barn suffering total loss of its roof (DI: SBO, DOD: 4). The tornado continued northeast with debris from the residence impacting a two story home, causing the destruction of a porch, as well as a large hole punched into the west side of the upper story of the house (DI: FR12, DOD: 4). A large pine tree had the top half snapped off and then thrown roughly 50 feet to rest against other trees on the property. The tornado continued across a field into a small grove of trees, where the tornado likely became outflow dominant and dissipated. While damage to the second residence could indicate much stronger wind speeds, a maximum wind speed of 95 mph was estimated due to the impacts of larger debris from the point of touchdown. The maximum width of the tornado was around 75 yards. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malinta | - | Emergency management officials reported power lines down on County Road 2 between County Road H and State Road 281. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Malinta | - | Considerable crop damage was reported. Exact figures were not available. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malinta | - | Numerous 18 to 20 inch diameter trees snapped. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Malinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Malinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Malinta | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elery | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Grelton | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Shunk | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Westhope | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Countryside Estates | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| McClure | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Damascus (historical) | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Hamler | 6.4 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 Malinta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2482927 | 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 1042904. 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.























