Defiance County
Ecoregion: Southern Great Lakes forests
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests. Ecoregions: RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al. 2017) (opens in a new tab), CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
Watersheds: Auglaize, Lower Maumee, St. Joseph, Tiffin and Upper Maumee
Land cover: farmland 75%, developed 12%, forest 9%
Elevation: 650 to 880 ft, mostly around 720 ft (197–269 m)
Land cover as shares of the land area. Land cover: USGS Annual NLCD, 2025 (opens in a new tab). Elevation: USGS 3D Elevation Program (opens in a new tab)
Warmth so far: Not available yet.
- species with a result
- 3
- records, 2016 to 2025
- 1,146
Defiance County at a glance
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The grey bars show how many records of all species were made here each week, so you can see when recording itself was high or low.
Every species recorded here
219 species
Dragonflies and damselflies 3



Within its mapped range 216
No qualifying county records yet, but its published range map covers the county.













































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