The Bend, Ohio

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 Bryan quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Bryan 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
• 1960 USGS Sherwood quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Sherwood quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Delaware township, in the words of 1883.

Museums hold 574 specimens collected within 10 miles of The Bend between 1858 and 1974: 565 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Angle, E. (Eric) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Angle, E. (Eric), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hoschak, J. (John), Athearn, Herbert D. 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
	Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1908	not recorded	Auglaize River, Defiance
	Boyeria vinosa (Say, 1840)	1944	H. Price	Lost Creek, Bricker Stock Farm on State Route 2
	Gomphus spicatus Hagen, 1854	1945	H. Price	Krill's Lake
	Trifolium subcaulescens A.Gray	1858	J. S. Newberry	Fort Defiance
	Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1888	S. Meek	Maumee River, Cecil, Ohio.
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1888	S. Meek	Maumee River, Cecil, Ohio.
	Notropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867)	1888	S. Meek	Maumee River, Cecil, Ohio.
	Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)	1888	S. Meek	Maumee River, Cecil, Ohio.
	Megascops asio naevius	1891	J. O. Snyder	unspecified
	Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1892	J. O. Snyder	unspecified

All 574 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names The Bend in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 Defiance 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 1061681. 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.