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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Walbridge, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43465. The Survey maps it on the Walbridge quadrangle. 3,011 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Walbridge within Wood County

Population over time

2 figures

Walbridge fell from 3,019 to 3,011 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,019
20203,011-8 (-0%)

Then and now

1900 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Walbridge, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Walbridge, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 sheets

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 107 shown

Museums hold 107 specimens collected within 10 miles of Walbridge between 1875 and 1975: 103 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aborn, R., C. Rutter, CL & LC Hubbs 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1907L. L. RedickPerrysburg
Specimen of Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)1908not recordedMaumee
Specimen of Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1920L. L. RedickPerrysburg
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1875LangdonIndian Hill, Kane County
A photograph of the species Orconectes propinquus, not of this specimenOrconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852)1893P. KirschMaumee Basin
A photograph of the species Palaemonetes kadiakensis, not of this specimenPalaemonetes kadiakensis M.J.Rathbun, 19021893P. KirschMaumee Basin
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1894C. RutterToledo (Perrysburg), Ohio
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1894not recordedPerrysburg, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Dorosoma cepedianum, not of this specimenDorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)1894C. RutterMaumee River at Perrysburg, Ohio
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1894not recordedPerrysburg, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Hiodon tergisus, not of this specimenHiodon tergisus Lesueur, 18181894C. RutterMaumee River at Perrysburg, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepisosteus osseus, not of this specimenLepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894C. RutterMaumee River at Perrysburg, Ohio

All 107 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Walbridge: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lime City PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms nearby

21 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Walbridge in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1999LightningWalbridge$100,000A barn was struck by lightning with the resulting fire doing extensive structural damage.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWalbridge$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWalbridge$5,000House sustained minor damage from downed tree in Walbridge.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWalbridge$4,000A few large limbs were reported down.
December 1998Thunderstorm WindWalbridge$2,000Large tree limbs were downed west of Walbridge.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWalbridge-The Toledo Executive Airport ASOS (KTDZ) recorded a peak convective wind gust of 60-mph from passing thunderstorm.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWalbridge-Toledo Executive Airport ASOS measured a peak convective wind gust of 59-mph from a thunderstorm.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWalbridge-Toledo Executive Airport ASOS recorded a peak gust of 58 mph from a passing thunderstorm.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindWalbridge-The Toledo Executive Airport ASOS recorded a peak gust of 68 mph from thunderstorms.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindWalbridge-Trees and power lines downed in Walbridge.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWalbridge-An automated sensor at Toledo Executive Airport measured a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWalbridge-A 74 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured by an automated sensor at Toledo Executive Airport.
March 2016HailWalbridge-Quarter sized hail was observed.
March 2016HailWalbridge-Nickel sized hail was observed.
March 2012HailWalbridge-Nickel sized hail was observed.
August 2011HailWalbridge-Nickel sized hail was observed.
May 2010HailWalbridge-Quarter size hail was observed.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindWalbridge-Automated weather observing equipment at Toledo Metcalf Airport measured a wind gust of 58 mph as the cold front pushed through the area.
May 2005HailWalbridge-Penny size hail was observed.
May 2003HailWalbridge-Penny size hail was observed in Lake Township near Walbridge.
May 2000HailWalbridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Stanley1.4 miles14
Hayes Place1.8 miles17
Northwood1.9 miles17
Moundview Park1.9 miles17
Brighton Gardens1.9 miles17
Biltmore Gardens1.9 miles17
Vickers2.0 miles17
East Gardens2.0 miles17

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 WalbridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2674154The 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 1047491. 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.