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Tontogany, Ohio
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43402. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green North quadrangle. 387 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTontogany grew from 367 to 387 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 367 | |
| 2020 | 387 | +20 (+5%) |
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
21 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
- 1938 USGS Tontogany quadrangle1:31680
- 1938 USGS Tontogany quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Tontogany quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
35 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Tontogany between 2002 and 2002, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 June 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 24 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 713 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 713 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tontogany between 1860 and 1975: 633 Animalia, 51 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Lose, Allen, J. M. 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 |
 | Lampsilis alata (Say, 1817) | 1908 | not recorded | Grand Rapids |
 | Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1908 | not recorded | Maumee River, Grand Rapids |
 | Notropis hudsonius (Clinton, 1824) | 1860 | unknown | Grand Rapids, Maumee R. |
 | Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
 | Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852 | 1893 | United States Fish Commission | Beaver Creek, Grand Rapids |
 | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
 | Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783) | 1893 | not recorded | Grand Rapids, Maumee River |
 | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Maumee River, Grand Rapids, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | not recorded | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | PH Kirsch | Beaver Creek, from mouth (at Maumee) up for 3 mi; near Grand Rapids; Maumee River dr |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1893 | not recorded | Maumee River, Waterville, Ohio |
All 713 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tontogany: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waterville Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Waterville Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tontogany in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Hail | Tontogany | $1,000,000 | Hail as large as softballs and shaped at times like candy bars fell at Tontogany for approximately ten minutes. Damage was extensive with 160 of the 200 homes in the village sustaining damage. Most of the damage was from broken windows, but over 100 hundred homes had holes knocked into exterior walls by hailstones driven by winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph. Most of this damage occurred on west facing walls. Several dozens cars and eight school buses were caught outside and had windows shattered and metal dented. The local high school had several dozen windows broken. The broken windows allowed heavy thunderstorm rains to seep inside. The rain water damaged and destroyed books, computers and other equipment inside. Outside the school, a press box at an athletic field was damaged and a chimney toppled. Valuable stained glass windows in a local church were also broken. Four trucks from the local fire department were caught outside and suffered extensive damage. Several large wheat fields near the village were shredded with a near 100 percent crop loss. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and limbs to the northwest of Tontogany near the intersection of State Routes 235 and 65. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree and broke several tree limbs. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | $3,000 | Two large limbs were reported down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | - | Tree downed about two-miles SSE of Tontogany. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | - | Mesonet station recorded a peak wind gust of 60 mph about one-mile WNW of Tontogany. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | - | Two trees downed in Otsego. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tontogany | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Tontogany | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Tontogany | - | Some crops were damaged. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williamsburg-On-The-River | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Otsego | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Country Manor Estates | 3.5 miles | 21 | |
| Haskins | 3.6 miles | 21 | |
| Quail Hollow | 4.1 miles | 21 | |
| Hull Prairie | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Northridge Estates | 4.5 miles | 21 | |
| Asbury Hills | 4.6 miles | 21 |
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 Tontogany | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1835882 | The 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 1061697. 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.