Ostrander, Ohio

Ostrander grew from 643 to 1,094 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 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1924 1992

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.

• 1924 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
• 1925 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Ostrander quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ostrander quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ostrander quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 661 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ostrander between 1871 and 1975: 583 Animalia, 42 Fungi, 32 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, B. A. Foote, B. R. Laughlin 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
	Vernonia maxima Small	1871	Collector unspecified	Scioto
	Buteo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)	1887	not recorded	Delaware, near Olentangy River
	Dryobates villosus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	not recorded	Delaware
	Icteria virens virens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1889	not recorded	Delaware
	Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1889	not recorded	Delaware
	Falco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus, 1758	1890	not recorded	Delaware
	Muhlenbergia mexicana (L.) Trin.	1890	Wilcox, E.V.	Deleware
	Chordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)	1891	not recorded	Delaware
	Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1891	not recorded	Delaware
	Icterus spurius spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1891	not recorded	Delaware
	Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798)	1891	not recorded	Delaware
	Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1892	not recorded	Delaware

All 661 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ostrander: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 Delaware County

The National Weather Service names Ostrander in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 Delaware 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 1044206. 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.

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.