Van Buren, Ohio

Van Buren grew from 328 to 396 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 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 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.

• 1903 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000

History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Allen Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 218 specimens collected within 10 miles of Van Buren between 1883 and 1975: 207 Animalia, 11 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by CL & LC Hubbs, CLARENCE CLARK, Collector(s): David E. Ferguson 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
	Valsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.	1906	F. O. Grover	Near Black Swamp, Oberlin.
	Notropis boops Gilbert, 1884	1883	Kirsch, P. H	Blanchard River, Findlay
	Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1893	P. Kirsch	Blanchard River, Findlay, Ohio
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	P. Kirsch	Blanchard River, Findley, Ohio
	Regina septemvittata (Say, 1825)	1893	not recorded	Findlay, Blanchard River
	Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
	Helminthosporium gramineum Rabenh. ex Schltdl.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
	Helminthosporium sorokinianum Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Eagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
	Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Eagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Eagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage

All 218 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Van Buren in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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 1056557. 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.