Wellington, Ohio

Wellington fell from 4,802 to 4,799 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 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 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.

• 1904 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Museums hold 1,725 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wellington between 1852 and 1975: 1,021 Animalia, 491 Fungi, 183 Plantae, 13 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Recksecker, A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans 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
	Cantharellus minor Peck	1896	F.D. Kelsey	Near Oberlin
	Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.	1896	Kelsey, Francis Duncan	Kipton
	Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1899	Ricksecker, A.E.	Wood 4 miles south of Oberlin.
	Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1852	Drège
	Uncinula flexuosa Peck	1872	F.D. Kelsey	Oberlin
	Parus bicolor Linnaeus, 1766	1874	Woods, N. W.	Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
	Agrostemma githago L.	1885	Harper, R.A.	Oberlin
	Cercospora incarnata Henn.	1885	F. D. Kelsey
	Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1885	McCormick, L. M.	Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
	Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)	1885	McCormick, L. M.	Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
	Medeola virginiana L.	1885	Harper, R.A.	Oberlin
	Mertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link	1885	Harper, R.A.	Oberlin

All 1,725 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Wellington in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 Lorain County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 4 issues spread across its run from 1899 to 1899, 11,791 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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 1047670. 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.