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Middle Point, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45863. The Survey maps it on the Middle Point quadrangle. 566 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Middle Point within Van Wert County

Population over time

2 figures

Middle Point fell from 576 to 566 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.

YearPeople Change
2010576
2020566-10 (-2%)

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Middle Point, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Middle Point, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 137 shown

Museums hold 137 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middle Point between 1837 and 1963: 130 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 2 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Bonnewitz L. R.; Stevenson J. A., Bonnewitz Lee R. 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 Geranium maculatum, not of this specimenGeranium maculatum L.1837FrankVan Wert Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Lophanthus nepetoides, not of this specimenLophanthus nepetoides (L.) Benth.1865Holzer, L.Delphos
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)1893P. KirschHoaglin Creek, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hybopsis amblops, not of this specimenHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschHoaglin Creek, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis megalotis, not of this specimenLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschHoaglin Creek, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Albugo platensis, not of this specimenAlbugo platensis (Speg.) Swingle1921Stevenson, John A.Van Wert
Cladosporium paeoniae Pass.1921Stevenson John A.Van Wert
A photograph of the species Puccinia iridis, not of this specimenPuccinia iridis Wallr.1921Stevenson J. A.Van Wert
A photograph of the species Charadrius vociferus, not of this specimenCharadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581922Price, H. (Homer)Van Wert, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendrocopos pubescens, not of this specimenDendrocopos pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766)1922Price, H. (Homer)near Paulding Co line, Blue Creek Banks, Van Wert, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1922not recordedNo specific locality recorded.
A photograph of the species Bubo virginianus, not of this specimenBubo virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1926Price, H. (Homer)Van Wert, Ohio, USA

All 137 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Middle Point: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ridge Township Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Sulphur Sales Inc/ Middle Point, OhSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Van Wert 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
Venedocia4.8 miles14
Seamersville5.5 miles14
Wetzel6.3 miles14
Hoaglin6.7 miles14
Jonestown6.8 miles14
Van Wert7.3 miles14
Buena Vista (historical)7.7 miles14
Converse7.9 miles12

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 Middle PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2121270The 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 1077349. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.