Editing Cloverdale, Ohio (section)

==History==
Cloverdale was originally called Evansville, and under the latter name was [[plat]]ted in 1877 when the railroad was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EVlOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dgAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4050%2C7521455 | title=Blanchard River Brought Pioneers To Putnam | work=Toledo Blade | date=May 31, 1953 | access-date=April 30, 2015 | author=Warren, Robert | pages=3}}</ref> The present name most likely is derived from the [[Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad|Clover Leaf Railroad]], which passed through a nearby junction.<ref>{{cite book|last=Overman|first=William Daniel|title=Ohio Town Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015361465;view=1up;seq=46|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=30}}</ref> The village was incorporated as Cloverdale in 1902.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofputnamc01kind#page/279/mode/2up | title=History of Putnam County, Ohio : its peoples, industries, and institutions | publisher=B.F. Bowen | author=Kinder, George D. | year=1915 | pages=148}}</ref>

During the [[Tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013|tornado outbreak of November 17th, 2013]], an [[Fujita scale|EF-2]] [[tornado]] struck the southern end of Cloverdale before dissipating, where minor to moderate structural damage occurred, and many trees and power lines were downed.<ref name="ncdc.noaa.gov">{{Cite web |title=Storm Events Database - Event Details {{!}} National Centers for Environmental Information |url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=483101 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=www.ncdc.noaa.gov}}</ref> A church in town sustained extensive damage to its walls and roof, and a nearby home sustained collapse of a wall.<ref name="ncdc.noaa.gov"/>