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Fulton County, Ohio

54 topographic sheets and 29 fire insurance atlases across 4 places.

Research this county

From the record

6 National Register listings published here · 47 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1893 to 1916.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service

Ohio within the United States
Fulton County within Ohio
Explore by year 1850 1922

What the record shows

  • 4 places in this county were surveyed for fire insurance: Wauseon, Archbold, Delta, Swanton, between 1888 and 1945.
  • 29 fire insurance atlases survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
  • 665 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 6 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 6 buildings.
  • 1 of the 6 listings was added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 49 populated places in this county; 49 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
  • 1 public-domain county history, 1905, supplies 3,123 words of narrative reproduced here.

Places on the National Register

6

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
George S. Clement Housebuilding198383001973
Fulton County Courthousebuilding197373001447
Fulton Lodge No. 248building2021100006149
Goll Homesteadbuilding200505001185
Jones-Read-Touvelle Housebuilding198787000632
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern (LS&MS) Railroad Depot-Wauseonbuilding199393000151

Digitised newspapers

5 issues

Sampled issues, machine-read from the Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline and column is searchable text.

Fulton County Tribune

Wauseon, Ohio, 1883 to 1925. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.

Bird's-eye views and land ownership maps

1

Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.

Land ownership map, 1850 - Fulton County, Ohio
Land ownership map (1850) - Fulton County, Ohio. Library of Congress.

Photographs from libraries nationwide

1 shown

Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 1 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.

State capitol, Columbus, Ohio. Wrigley Buildings, Chicago, Illinois. Stone Face Mt. Memorial, Atlanta, Georgia, Boston Public Library - undated
State capitol, Columbus, Ohio. Wrigley Buildings, Chicago, Illinois. Stone Face Mt. Memorial, Atlanta, Georgia. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.

The county from the air

40 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 745 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 40 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-08-01, scale 1:69000
1952-08-01, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-08-01, scale 1:69000
1952-08-01, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-08-01, scale 1:69000
1952-08-01, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-28, scale 1:19000
1960-04-28, scale 1:19000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-28, scale 1:19000
1960-04-28, scale 1:19000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-28, scale 1:19000
1960-04-28, scale 1:19000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1963-05-01, scale 1:24000
1963-05-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1963-05-01, scale 1:24000
1963-05-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1963-05-01, scale 1:24000
1963-05-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-06-10, scale 1:120549
1972-06-10, scale 1:120549. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-06-10, scale 1:120253
1972-06-10, scale 1:120253. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-04-01, scale 1:80000
1977-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-04-01, scale 1:80000
1977-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-04-01, scale 1:80000
1977-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-08-01, scale 1:69000
1952-08-01, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-04-23, scale 1:24000
1959-04-23, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-04-23, scale 1:24000
1959-04-23, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-04-23, scale 1:24000
1959-04-23, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-04-23, scale 1:24000
1959-04-23, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-28, scale 1:19000
1960-04-28, scale 1:19000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1963-05-01, scale 1:24000
1963-05-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-09-12, scale 1:121252
1969-09-12, scale 1:121252. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-09-12, scale 1:119047
1969-09-12, scale 1:119047. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-09-12, scale 1:119047
1969-09-12, scale 1:119047. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-09-12, scale 1:120218
1969-09-12, scale 1:120218. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-01, scale 1:24000
1971-04-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-01, scale 1:24000
1971-04-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-01, scale 1:24000
1971-04-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-01, scale 1:24000
1971-04-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-06-10, scale 1:120549
1972-06-10, scale 1:120549. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-06-10, scale 1:120253
1972-06-10, scale 1:120253. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-01-02, scale 1:24000
1973-01-02, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-01-02, scale 1:24000
1973-01-02, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-01-02, scale 1:24000
1973-01-02, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-01-02, scale 1:24000
1973-01-02, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-04-01, scale 1:80000
1977-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1987-03-01, scale 1:15000
1987-03-01, scale 1:15000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1987-03-01, scale 1:15000
1987-03-01, scale 1:15000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1987-03-01, scale 1:15000
1987-03-01, scale 1:15000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1987-03-01, scale 1:15000
1987-03-01, scale 1:15000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

13 stations, 1 gage

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

The 1950 census, district by district

35 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

  • 26-1Amboy township: Metamora village
  • 26-2Amboy township - That part outside Metamora village
  • 26-3Chesterfield township
  • 26-4Clinton township: Wauseon village: Wauseon village - That part Bounded by Village limits; Village limits; E. Oak, N. Shoop Ave., E. Walnut; N. Fulton, W. Linfoot, Village limits
  • 26-5Wauseon village - That part Bounded by Village limits, W. Linfoot; N. Fulton; New York Central Railroad; Village limits
  • 26-6Wauseon village - That part Bounded by E. Walnut, N. Sheep Ave., E. Oak; Village limits; New York Central Railroad; N. Fulton
  • 26-7Wauseon village - That part Bounded by New York Central Railroad; Village limits; Village limits; Main, E. Superior, E. Park, S. Fulton
  • 26-8Wauseon village - That part Bounded by New York Central Railroad; S. Fulton, E. Park, E. Superior, Main; Village limits; Village limits
  • 26-9Clinton township - That part north and west of State Hwy. 2, outside Wauseon village
  • 26-10Clinton township - That part south and east of State Hwy. 2, outside Wauseon village
  • 26-11Dover township
  • 26-12Franklin township
  • 26-13Swanton village, comprising parts of Fulton and Swan Creek townships: Swanton village - That part in Fulton township
  • 26-14Swanton village - That part in Swan Creek township
  • 26-15Fulton township, outside Swanton village: Fulton township - That part north of State Hwy. 246
  • 26-16Fulton township - That part south of State Hwy. 246, outside Swanton village (Remainder of Fulton township is in Swanton village)
  • 26-17German township: Archbold village: Archbold village - That part north of New York Central Railroad
  • 26-18Archbold village - That part south of New York Central Railroad
  • 26-19German township - That part east of State Hwy. 66, outside Archbold village
  • 26-20German township - That part west of State Hwy. 66, outside Archbold village
  • 26-21Gorham township: Fayette village
  • 26-22Gorham township - That part north and west of U.S. Hwy. 20, outside Fayette village
  • 26-23Gorham township - That part south and east of U.S. Hwy. 20, outside Fayette village
  • 26-24Pike township: Pike township - That part north of State Hwy. 246
  • 26-25Pike township - That part south of State Hwy. 246
  • 26-26Royalton township: Lyons village
  • 26-27Royalton township - That part outside Lyons village
  • 26-28Delta village, comprising parts of Swan Creek and York townships: Delta village - That part in Swan Creek township
  • 26-29Delta village - That part in York township, north of Main
  • 26-30Delta village - That part in York township, south of Main
  • 26-31Swan Creek township, outside Delta and Swanton villages: Swan Creek township - That part north of Wabash Rwy., outside Delta and Swanton villages
  • 26-32Swan Creek township - That part south of Wabash Rwy. and east of Road 52
  • 26-33Swan Creek township - That part south of Wabash Rwy. and west of Road 52 (Remainder of Swan Creek township is in Delta and Swanton villages)
  • 26-34York township, outside Delta village: York township - That part east of Road 46, outside Delta village
  • 26-35York township - That part west of Road 46 (Remainder of York township is in Delta village)

Businesses named in the atlases

47 businesses

Every Sanborn volume opens with a printed index naming the town's mills, tanneries, hotels and works by proprietor. Those indexes were read off the scanned sheets by machine and then matched to each other, so a business surveyed four times appears here once, with the years it survived. 7 of these 47 were named in more than one atlas. Each carries a crop of the line it was read from: the spelling is the recogniser's and the 1880s lithographer's, and the scan behind it is the proof.

Wildfire, 2006 to 2020

38 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 38 of them, burning about 72 acres. None started naturally and 3 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 November 2015Debris and open burning11 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2646
30 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources643
13 March 2009Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15570
11 April 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1954 to 2026

60 of 256 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 256 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 8 injuries and about $7,473,502 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind168
Hail59
Tornado13
Flash Flood12
Flood2
Heavy Rain1
Lightning1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1972Tornado (F0)not stated1 killed, $25,000no account filed
July 1992Tornado (F2)not stated8 hurt, $2,500,000no account filed
June 1980Tornado (F1)not stated$2,500,000no account filed
August 1998HailArchbold$650,000SEVERAL HOMES NEAR ARCHBOLD SUSTAINED MODERATE TO SEVERE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE FROM THE HIGH WINDS. ONE HOME OWNER HAD HIS CHIMNEY COLLAPSE WHICH FELL THROUGH THE ROOF. THEY ALSO LOST SEVERAL WINDOWS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE HOME FROM FLYING DEBRIS. ANOTHER HOME OWNER HAD HIS BARN BLOWN OFF ITS FOUNDATION AND HAD EVERY TREE ON THEIR PROPERTY UPROOTED. SEVERAL CROP FIELDS IN THE AREA WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED BY THE HIGH WINDS AND HAIL.
June 2010Tornado (EF2)South Delta$500,000The tornado touched down along Highway 109 just north of County Road A and moved northeast, impacting several homes, trees and power lines. Several homes were severely damaged or destroyed (DI:FR12 DOD: 8). However, improper anchoring of some of the homes resulted in a failure on all walls, resulting in their destruction. Several trees were uprooted or damaged, including through the Maumee State Forest. The tornado ended near the Fulton/Lucas county line. The maximum width of the tornado was around 700 yards with maximum wind speeds estimated around 130 mph. Damage is estimated at $500,000.
May 1989Tornado (F1)not stated$250,000no account filed
August 1998Flash FloodArchbold$150,000TWO PEOPLE HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM THEIR VEHICLES AS THEY ATTEMPTED TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS. THE SAUDER VILLAGE MUSEUM SUSTAINED THE MOST DAMAGE AS FLAT RUN CREEK INUNDATED THE GROUND FLOOR WITH WATER. SEVERAL HOMES IN ARCHBOLD HAD WATER BACKUP THROUGH THE SEWER INTO THEIR BASEMENTS.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDelta$100,000Trained spotter reports thunderstorm wind damage in the form of 3 semi trucks blown over on the Ohio Turnpike near County Road 5-2 near the town of Delta.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindArchbold$100,000A ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF ON A HOME AT 5326 CR RD 20. ANOTHER HOME HAD ITS WINDOWS BLOWN IN ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE HOME AND A BARN WAS MOVED OFF ITS FOUNDATION 3 FEET. IN ADDITION SEVERAL LARGE TREES IN ARCHBOLD WERE UPROOTED.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWauseon$100,000AIR CONDITIONING UNITS ON TOP OF THE LOCAL WALMART WERE BLOWN OFF. THE GREENHOUSE WAS ALSO DEMOLISHED.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLyons$75,000County officials reported several trees down and 12 power poles being snapped off on County Road 10 between County Road U and Highway 120. Damage is estimated at $75,000 for the power poles.
June 2013LightningDelta$50,000Lightning was indirectly the cause of structure fire on the 300 block of Wood Street. Fire officials reported that lightning struck a power line near the residence, with the live line impacting the residence and immediately started a fire. The house was a total loss.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWauseon$50,000A FARM HAD ITS BARN COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED. NUMEROUS TREES WERE ALSO DAMAGED.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFayette$30,000A 18 inch diameter tree was uprooted, falling onto a house, causing roof damage.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDelta$25,000Broadcast media relayed reports of thunderstorm wind damage of a barn with the doors blown off and a silo now leaning off of the concrete pad near the town of Delta.
June 1997Flash FloodCountywide$25,000no account filed
July 1992Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
July 1969Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
April 1968Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBrailey$20,000A tree fell onto an occupied van with 3 kids and 1 adult. No major injuries but occupants were covered in broken glass.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLyons$20,000Numerous trees and power lines came down across the county, with the focus from Lyons to Metamora. Several of the power poles were snapped with road signs being blown over.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindCountywide$20,000Trees and power lines were blown down across the county.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindWauseon$20,000Numerous trees blown down. Barns damaged. Roof damage to businesses in town.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindNear Henry$12,000Trees were downed, one on a storage shed and one on a car.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFayette$10,000A residential roof was damaged on county road L.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLytton$10,000A large walnut tree was down along with branches from other nearby trees.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLyons$10,000Emergency management officials reported power lines and trees down in the Lyons area.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindDelta$10,000Several trees were uprooted and power poles leaning across the southeastern part of the county.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOakshade$10,000The top of a barn was taken off with trees down in the area.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindDelta$10,000Roof off of building.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWauseon$10,000Tree limbs and power lines downed.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindDelta$10,000SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN WITH SOME ROADS REPORTED BLOCKED. SEVERAL POWER POLES WERE ALSO REPORTED SNAPPED.
December 1998Thunderstorm WindWauseon$10,000TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindSwanton$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed.
June 1997Flash FloodSwanton$10,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCountywide$8,000Trees were downed in several locations including Archbold. Winds were reported at 60 mph in Delta. Large hail fell near the airport but no property damage was attributed to it.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDenson$5,000Several tree limbs were down on county road 16-3 between county roads T and U.
July 2008Flash FloodWauseon$5,000Law enforcement officials reported numerous roads flooded across the county, with water as high as two feet flowing over some of the roads. The flooding subsided by mid morning.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWauseon$5,000Trees and power lines reported down southwest of Wauseon.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindCountywide$5,000Trees were downed.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCentral part$5,000Trees were downed in several locations.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindS Portion$5,000Large limbs were downed in several locations.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHarrison Lake$5,000Trees downed.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFayette$5,000Large limbs were downed, some on power lines.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindNear Fayette$4,000Numerous trees and large limbs were downed.
June 1969Tornado (F1)not stated$2,500no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindFayette$2,000A large tree limb was down, blocking a road.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWauseon$2,000Law enforcement reported trees down and a barn destroyed southwest of Wauseon.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDelta$2,000no account filed
April 2025FloodDelta$1,000Ohio DOT reports US 20A is closed in Delta due to water over the road as of 6am EDT.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWauseon$1,000A tree was down near the intersection of CR 13 and CR A.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindTedrow$1,000Wauseon Fire Dept reported power lines down on CR 19 and CR J.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWauseon$1,000Power lines down at 14430 CR B. Reported by Wauseon FD.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindArchbold$1,000trees and power lines down.
August 2024HailTedrow$500Report from mPING of 0.75 inch hail.
June 2024HailTedrow$500no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindWauseon$2Large limbs were downed.
April 2026HailArchbold-Hail reported up to penny size.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAssumption-A tree was uprooted and a roof of a garage was torn off.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFayette-Tree down across the road.

Collected here, 1893 to 1975

8 of 1,204 shown

Museum specimens collected in and around this county - inside the rectangle that bounds it - and catalogued with a date and a place: 1,204 of them, by kingdom 1,175 animalia, 17 plantae, 10 fungi, 2 unrecorded. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by MSU, McGill University, Ohio State University - Mammal Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), UMMZ, Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) among others, and each settlement page carries the specimens collected near it.

The oldest of them. A specimen proves something was collected on that day; its absence proves nothing.

Photograph YearSpecies KingdomWhere CollectorCatalogue
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimen1893Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)AnimaliaTiffin River, West Unity, OhioP. KirschUSNM USNM 76156
A photograph of the species Puccinia menthae, not of this specimen1893Puccinia menthae Pers.FungiFayetteFink B.BPI BPI 084022
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimen1894Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)AnimaliaWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USAHine, J. S. (James Stewart)Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds E 2223
Specimen of Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)AnimaliaWauseonEdward WilkinsonYPM YPM ORN 151412
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimen1897Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)AnimaliaFulton, Ohio, USAHine, J. S. (James Stewart)Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds E 4168
A photograph of the species Gomphus fraternus, not of this specimen1898Gomphus fraternus (Say, 1840)AnimaliaWauseonJ. HineUSNM USNMENT00482816
A photograph of the species Sympetrum corruptum, not of this specimen1898Sympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861)AnimaliaWauseonJ. HineUSNM USNMENT00486807
A photograph of the species Parus atricapillus, not of this specimen1899Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766AnimaliaWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USAnot recordedOhio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 1522

The townships, in 1905

3,123 words

The County of Fulton: A History of Fulton County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days, with Special Chapters on Various Subjects, Including Each of the Different Townships; Also a Biographical Department. devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. The one chapter is reproduced here in full. Each row shows the township's own shape and where it lies in the county, drawn from the Census Bureau's boundary. Which settlements belong to which township is computed from that same boundary, not taken from the book.

Shape and position in the county TownshipSettlements in it LengthSections
Fulton TownshipAi, Dutch Ridge, Siney, Swanton, Swanton Meadows3,123 words0

The county's history books

326,164 words

One book written about this county, cut here where the book itself is cut, at its printed chapters: 24 chapters in all. Every chapter is public domain, machine-read from the scan and reproduced complete. A chapter already given under one of the county's towns is not repeated in this list.

The County of Fulton: A History of Fulton County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days, with Special Chapters on Various Subjects, Including Each of the Different Townships; Also a Biographical Department. (1905)

ChapterLength
Chapter 1: Fulton County Antiquities6,417 words
Chapter 2: Earltf Jurisdiction7,472 words
Chapter 3: The Boundary Dispute7,608 words
Chapter 4: Settlement and Organization7,065 words
Chapter 5: The County's War Record6,645 words
Chapter 6: The Last Forty Years7,000 words
Chapter 7: Politics and Official Honors5,739 words
Chapter 8: Resources and Early Enterprises5,745 words
Chapter 9: Educational Development4,222 words
Chapter 10: Bench and Bar4,113 words
Chapter 11: The Medical Profession3,937 words
Chapter 12: Climatology of Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio1,193 words
Chapter 14: York Township2,110 words
Chapter 15: Swan Creek Township2,611 words
Chapter 16: Amboy Township3,076 words
Chapter 17: Chesterfield Township2,966 words
Chapter 18: Royalton Township2,404 words
Chapter 19: Clinton Township4,723 words
Chapter 20: Gorham- Township3,654 words
Chapter 21: German Township2,127 words
Chapter with an unread heading (no. 21 of those read)2,712 words
Chapter 24: Pike Township1,768 words
Chapter 25: Dover Township1,868 words
Biographical sketches228,989 words in 15 parts

Every populated place in the county

49

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 4 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

The vanished settlements of Fulton County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Recorded here

Wauseon, Ohio

15 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases, 1888 to 1945

Archbold, Ohio

14 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1930

Delta, Ohio

15 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1893 to 1932

Swanton, Ohio

11 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1945

Everything this county holds

The complete index, with nothing left out. Each of these is a separate record with its own page: a federal survey report, or the case file that argued a property on to the National Register. Both are public domain and reproduced word for word.

Nomination case files

5 case files

The vanished settlements of Fulton County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.