Mungen, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Portage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43462. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green South quadrangle.
Then and now
1901 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 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.
- 1901 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
2 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mungen between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 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 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 October 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 749 shownMuseums hold 749 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mungen between 1894 and 1975: 711 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, L. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh. | 1901 | Kellerman, W.A. | Bowling Green |
![]() | Physoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.Shaw | 1912 | E. G. Arzberger | Station grounds |
![]() | Icterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Geo W. Dean | Wayne |
![]() | Calicium lenticulare Ach. | 1895 | E. E. Bogue | |
![]() | Aristida purpurascens Poir. | 1901 | William Kellerman | Near Bowling Green |
![]() | Phyllachora lespedezae (Schwein.) Sacc. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Bowling Green |
![]() | Uromyces lespedezae (Thüm.) Peck | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Bowling Green |
| Melampsora abietis-canadensis (Farl.) C.A.Ludw. | 1902 | W.A. Kellerman | Bowling Green | |
| Melampsora populina (Jacq.) Lév. | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | Bowling Green | |
| Stemphylium cucurbitacearum Osner | 1915 | Gilbert W. W. | Bowling Green | |
![]() | Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825) | 1917 | E L MOSELEY | BOWLING GREEN |
![]() | Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1918 | E L MOSELEY | MILTON TWP |
All 749 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mungen: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portage Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Woods | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Bays | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Ducat | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Trombley | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Mermill | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Rudolph | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Cygnet | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Jerry City | 2.8 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065084. 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.
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.






















