Napoleon, Ohio

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Napoleon grew from 8,749 to 8,862 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 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 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.

• 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
• 1959 USGS Napoleon West quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Napoleon West quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Napoleon between 2020 and 2020, burning about 13 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Countryside Estates
• Valleybrook Estates
• Glenwood Estates
• Shunk
• Bostelmans Corners
• Lueneburg

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Museums hold 131 specimens collected within 10 miles of Napoleon between 1898 and 1974: 113 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 7 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
	Helminthosporium gramineum Rabenh. ex Schltdl.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Ridgeville Corners
	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

All 131 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Napoleon: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Every working recorded in Henry County

The National Weather Service names Napoleon in 49 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 37 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 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 Henry County

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

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 1043773. 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.

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.