Mendon, Ohio

Mendon fell from 662 to 628 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 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 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.

• 1914 USGS Celina quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Celina 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 Mendon quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Mendon quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000

History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 109 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mendon between 1888 and 1967: 104 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by . R. Slonakerj, Brown, H P, Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.) 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
	Carex grayi J.Carey	1903	Wetzstein A.
	Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)	1920	R. Rhoades	St. Marys Lake at Celina
	Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842)	1942	H. Price	St. Mary's River
	Ardea alba egretta Gmelin, 1789	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Calidris canutus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Ceryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-1994	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Cistothorus palustris dissaeptus Bangs, 1902	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Gallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1888	J.R.S.	Celina
	Tringa flavipes (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Tringa solitaria solitaria A.Wilson, 1813	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina

All 109 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendon in 24 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 10 flood, 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 Mercer 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 1085474. 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.