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

Wendelin, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Granville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45846. The Survey maps it on the Coldwater quadrangle.

Wendelin within Mercer County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wendelin, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Wendelin, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the county-history sources

2,021 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Granville 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 Granville Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 110 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 110 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wendelin between 1886 and 1962: 85 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Clark, C. (Clarence), Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.) 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 unnamed1934P. P. PironeColdwater
A photograph of the species Umbra limi, not of this specimenUmbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)1886Meek and HarrisMontezuma
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888J. R. SlonakerFort Recovery
A photograph of the species Podosphaera leucotricha, not of this specimenPodosphaera leucotricha (Ellis & Everh.) E.S.Salmon1906Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1908Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1908Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
Glomerella graminicola D.J.Politis1908A. D. SelbySharpsburg.
A photograph of the species Didelphis virginiana, not of this specimenDidelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr, 17921911L. L. WaltersFt Recovery, 4 mi SE
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1913Goodrich, CalvinMonterey
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1913Goodrich, CalvinFort Recovery(3 mi E)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1913Goodrich, CalvinSt Henry
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1926not recordedFort Laramie

All 110 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wendelin in 1 storm report between 2021 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindWendelin$3,000Power lines were downed near the intersection of Lange Road and Township Line Road.

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Sharpsburg2.4 miles12
Saint Henry3.0 miles12
Saint Joseph3.2 miles12
Philothea4.0 miles12
Burkettsville4.1 miles12
Saint Peter4.6 miles12
Fort Recovery4.7 miles14
Cranberry Prairie5.8 miles13

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 WendelinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698535The 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 1061729. 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.