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

Mandale, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45827. It stands on Dog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Continental quadrangle.

Mandale within Paulding County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mandale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Mandale, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

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 35 shown

Museums hold 35 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mandale between 1893 and 1973: 35 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by CLARENCE CLARK, F. S. Badger, G. Y. Belyea 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1928not recordedAuglaize River, Junction
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias Linnaeus, 17581929H. I. PierceGrover Hill
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1940Rhoades, R. (Randall)Little Auglaize River, within Paulding Co, Paulding County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Orconectes immunis, not of this specimenOrconectes immunis (Hagen, 1870)1940R. Rhoades & C. ClarkLittle Auglaize River, 2 miles South of Mandale
A photograph of the species Orconectes rusticus, not of this specimenOrconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)1940R. Rhoades & C. ClarkLittle Auglaize River, 2 mi. S. of Mandale
A photograph of the species Enallagma antennatum, not of this specimenEnallagma antennatum (Say, 1840)1942H. Pricemouth of Blue Creek
Macromia illinoiensis Walsh, 18621942H. PriceAuglaize River at Fort Brown
A photograph of the species Somatochlora linearis, not of this specimenSomatochlora linearis (Hagen, 1861)1943H. PriceBrown Township, near Auglaize River, North of Melrose

All 35 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Mandale in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Tornado (EF2)Mandale-A second tornado spun up north of the decaying Van Wert tornado, touching down in far southeast Paulding County. The tornado severely damaged a pole barn as it moved into Putnam county. The tornado rapidly moved northeast, hitting a well anchored mobile homed and flipping it 60 feet away. Three occupants were in the mobile home and two of them sustained minor injuries. It is here that the tornado peaked at an EF-2 with an estimated wind speed of 120 mph. The tornado destroyed another well-anchored 60x120 ft pole barn, throwing its debris onto the bank of the Auglaize River. To the northeast, it directly hit the town of Dupont where it did widespread EF-0 to EF-1 damage throughout. The tornado damaged several large corn silos (one that was full of corn had the ground anchor bolts break from uplift). It is near here where the visible damage stopped.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindMandale-Emergency management officials reported a trailer was destroyed on Township Highway 48, east of State Route 66.
November 2013Tornado (EF1)Mandale-A tornado which originally touched down in Putnam county briefly crossed into Paulding county, near the intersection of Road M and Road 25m. A mobile home near the county line was impacted by the tornado, causing it to shift off its foundation with minor siding damage (DI: MHSW, DOD: 3). A barn also suffered some minor siding damage. The tornado quickly re-entered Putnam county shortly after.

Every storm recorded in Paulding 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Plumbs Cross Roads (historical)1.7 miles10
Timberville (historical)2.4 miles10
Roselms3.1 miles10
Murat (historical)3.2 miles10
Newburgh (historical)5.1 miles10
Etties-Burg (historical)5.2 miles12
Oakwood5.5 miles10
Melrose6.0 miles10

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 MandaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6747776The 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 1062503. 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.