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Wren, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Willshire Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45899. The Survey maps it on the Wren quadrangle. 165 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresWren fell from 194 to 165 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 | 194 | |
| 2020 | 165 | -29 (-15%) |
Then and now
1953 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Wren quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Wren quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Wren quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 73 shownMuseums hold 73 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wren between 1837 and 1970: 70 Animalia, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Frank, H. Price, Moser, M. A. (Marshall A.) & Moser, J. A. (Jill A.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842) | 1942 | H. Price | St. Mary's River |
 | Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890 | 1942 | H. Price | St. Mary's River |
 | Geranium maculatum L. | 1837 | Frank | Van Wert Co., Ohio |
 | Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. | 1850 | not recorded | Ohio City. |
 | Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Maddox Creek, Pleasant Township, near Van Wert, Pleasant township |
 | Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Maddox Creek, within Pleasant township, near Van Wert, Pleasant township |
 | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Maddox Creek, within Pleasant township, near Van Wert, Pleasant township |
 | Erimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Blue Creek, within Tully township, near Convoy, Tully township |
 | Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Maddox Creek, within Pleasant township, near Van Wert, Pleasant township |
 | Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Blue Creek, within Tully township, near Convoy, Tully township |
 | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Saint Marys River, no more precise locality provided, near Willshire OH, western Willshire Township |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Saint Marys River, no more precise locality provided, near Willshire OH, western Willshire Township |
All 73 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
18 since 1995The National Weather Service names Wren in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Wren | $60,000 | The tornado touched down near the Adams county, Indiana and Van Wert county, Ohio line. It proceeded across State Line Road and destroyed 2 closed, steel doors on a barn. The tornado dissipated over open field. Damage is estimated at $60,000 to the barn. No injuries were reported. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | $10,000 | Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines down. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | $8,000 | An outbuilding roof was lifted and tossed across the street. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | $4,000 | Trees were downed into a number of power lines, causing power outages to 101 people. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | - | Emergency management officials reported multiple trees down. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | - | Emergency management officials reported a large tree was blown down. A local church undergoing construction had the north wall bowed outward form the strong winds. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | - | A trained spotter reported power lines down in the Wren area from strong winds. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | - | A trained spotter reported numerous tree limbs down in Wren. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | - | Emergency management reported large trees down in Wren. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | - | Tree blown down onto power lines. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | - | TREES DOWN. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Wren | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wren | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Wren | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Wren | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Wren | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wren | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Wren | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2087763 | 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 1048147. 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.