54 topographic sheets and 29 fire insurance atlases across 4 places.
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6 National Register listings · 41 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1893 to 1916 · the 1899 county history tells 2 stories and names 246 people · people the book names include John H. Aietz (Fulton Township, 1899) (machine-read).
Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service
A captivity, a drowning, a famine, a man scalped clearing his lot in 1789. These are passages from Commemorative Biographical Record of Northwestern Ohio : Including the Counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams and Fulton, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families, written while people who remembered the events were still alive, and each one opens the section it comes from.
AND FINALLY DESTROYED AT THE OUTBREAK OF PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY 10TH MAY 1783 WHEN THE FORT WAS BURNED THE ENTIRE GARRISON MASSACRED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE COMMANDANT ENSIGN PAULI WHO WAS CARRIED OFF A PRISONER TO PONTIAC THEN BESIECINC DETROIT ERECTED BY THE OHIO SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA
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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 | Property | Type | Listed | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Clement, George S., House | building | 1983 | 83001973 |
 | Fulton County Courthouse | building | 1973 | 73001447 |
 | Fulton Lodge No. 248 | building | 2021 | 100006149 |
 | Goll Homestead | building | 2005 | 05001185 |
 | Jones--Read--Touvelle House | building | 1987 | 87000632 |
 | Lake Shore and Michigan Southern (LS&MS) Railroad Depot--Wauseon | building | 1993 | 93000151 |
Fulton County holds 0 covered bridges on the National Register, more than any other property type here. Each is a listed structure with a federal nomination on file.
Sampled issues, machine-read from the Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline and column is searchable text.
Wauseon, Ohio, 1883 to 1925. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.
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.
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.
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. 745 frames touch this county; the selection below spreads across the decades of flights (at most four per year), 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.
The "who lived here, by year" answer: pre-1929 public-domain directory volumes naming the county's people, machine-read and searchable as text.
The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that watched its rivers, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.
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.
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. 9 of these 41 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.
Church
1908 to 1916, named in 4 atlases
Appears in 1908 1908 1913 1916
Read elsewhere as German Baptist Church; First Baptist Church.
Saw Mill
1916 to 1916, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Pelton, H.R., Feed, Planing & Saw Mill.
Mill
1905 to 1910, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Red Wing Wind Mill Co.
Packing House
named once, in the 1916 atlas
Appears in 1916
Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 39 of them, burning about 72 acres. 0 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 burning | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 November 2015 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2646 |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 643 |
| 13 March 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15570 |
| 11 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
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 Wind | 168 |
| Hail | 59 |
| Tornado | 13 |
| Flash Flood | 12 |
| Flood | 2 |
| Heavy Rain | 1 |
| Lightning | 1 |
The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1972 | Tornado (F0) | not stated | 1 killed, $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1992 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | 8 hurt, $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| June 1980 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Archbold | $650,000 | SEVERAL 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 2010 | Tornado (EF2) | South Delta | $500,000 | The 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 1989 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Archbold | $150,000 | TWO 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $100,000 | Trained 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Archbold | $100,000 | A 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $100,000 | AIR CONDITIONING UNITS ON TOP OF THE LOCAL WALMART WERE BLOWN OFF. THE GREENHOUSE WAS ALSO DEMOLISHED. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $75,000 | County 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 2013 | Lightning | Delta | $50,000 | Lightning 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $50,000 | A FARM HAD ITS BARN COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED. NUMEROUS TREES WERE ALSO DAMAGED. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fayette | $30,000 | A 18 inch diameter tree was uprooted, falling onto a house, causing roof damage. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $25,000 | Broadcast 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 1997 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1992 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1969 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 1968 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brailey | $20,000 | A tree fell onto an occupied van with 3 kids and 1 adult. No major injuries but occupants were covered in broken glass. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $20,000 | Numerous 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $20,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down across the county. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $20,000 | Numerous trees blown down. Barns damaged. Roof damage to businesses in town. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Near Henry | $12,000 | Trees were downed, one on a storage shed and one on a car. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fayette | $10,000 | A residential roof was damaged on county road L. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lytton | $10,000 | A large walnut tree was down along with branches from other nearby trees. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lyons | $10,000 | Emergency management officials reported power lines and trees down in the Lyons area. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $10,000 | Several trees were uprooted and power poles leaning across the southeastern part of the county. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakshade | $10,000 | The top of a barn was taken off with trees down in the area. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $10,000 | Roof off of building. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $10,000 | Tree limbs and power lines downed. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $10,000 | SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN WITH SOME ROADS REPORTED BLOCKED. SEVERAL POWER POLES WERE ALSO REPORTED SNAPPED. |
| December 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $10,000 | TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swanton | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Swanton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $8,000 | Trees 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denson | $5,000 | Several tree limbs were down on county road 16-3 between county roads T and U. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Wauseon | $5,000 | Law 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $5,000 | Trees and power lines reported down southwest of Wauseon. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $5,000 | Trees were downed. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Central part | $5,000 | Trees were downed in several locations. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | S Portion | $5,000 | Large limbs were downed in several locations. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison Lake | $5,000 | Trees downed. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fayette | $5,000 | Large limbs were downed, some on power lines. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Near Fayette | $4,000 | Numerous trees and large limbs were downed. |
| June 1969 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $2,500 | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fayette | $2,000 | A large tree limb was down, blocking a road. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $2,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down and a barn destroyed southwest of Wauseon. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Flood | Delta | $1,000 | Ohio DOT reports US 20A is closed in Delta due to water over the road as of 6am EDT. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $1,000 | A tree was down near the intersection of CR 13 and CR A. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tedrow | $1,000 | Wauseon Fire Dept reported power lines down on CR 19 and CR J. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $1,000 | Power lines down at 14430 CR B. Reported by Wauseon FD. |
| March 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Archbold | $1,000 | trees and power lines down. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Tedrow | $500 | Report from mPING of 0.75 inch hail. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Tedrow | $500 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wauseon | $2 | Large limbs were downed. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Archbold | - | Hail reported up to penny size. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Assumption | - | A tree was uprooted and a roof of a garage was torn off. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fayette | - | Tree down across the road. |
Museum specimens collected inside this county 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 | Year | Species | Kingdom | Where | Collector | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1893 | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | Animalia | Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio | P. Kirsch | USNM USNM 76156 |
 | 1893 | Puccinia menthae Pers. | Fungi | Fayette | Fink B. | BPI BPI 084022 |
 | 1894 | Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Animalia | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds E 2223 |
 | 1894 | Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758) | Animalia | Wauseon | Edward Wilkinson | YPM YPM ORN 151412 |
 | 1897 | Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788) | Animalia | Fulton, Ohio, USA | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds E 4168 |
 | 1898 | Gomphus fraternus (Say, 1840) | Animalia | Wauseon | J. Hine | USNM USNMENT00482816 |
 | 1898 | Sympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861) | Animalia | Wauseon | J. Hine | USNM USNMENT00486807 |
 | 1899 | Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766 | Animalia | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA | not recorded | Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 1522 |
Commemorative Biographical Record of Northwestern Ohio : Including the Counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams and Fulton, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 1 are 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 | Township | Settlements in it | Length | Sections |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulton Township | Ai, Dutch Ridge, Siney, Swanton, Swanton Meadows | 538,920 words | 45 |
Everyone Commemorative Biographical Record of Northwestern Ohio : Including the Counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams and Fulton, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families stops to write about, with the section that describes them. Among them are the men who founded the place and governed the Territory. Each name opens the passage itself, in the words of 1899.
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 watercourse or landform it stands on 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.
German township · 43502 · Archbold quadrangle
14 sheets, 1913 to 1990
Fire insurance: 7 atlases
Fulton township · 43558 · Swanton quadrangle
11 sheets, 1911 to 1986
Fire insurance: 7 atlases
Clinton township · 43567 · Wauseon quadrangle
15 sheets, 1911 to 1990
Fire insurance: 8 atlases
Amboy township · 43540 · Assumption quadrangle
12 sheets, 1911 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Fulton township · 43515 · Assumption quadrangle
12 sheets, 1911 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Royalton township · 43533 · On Little Bear Creek · Assumption quadrangle
12 sheets, 1911 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Amboy township · 43540 · Assumption quadrangle
12 sheets, 1911 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Amboy township · 43540 · On Little Bear Creek · Assumption quadrangle
12 sheets, 1911 to 1986
Pike township · 43515 · On South Branch Bad Creek · Lyons quadrangle
15 sheets, 1911 to 1990
15 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases, 1888 to 1945
14 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1930
15 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1893 to 1932
11 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1945
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.
The vanished settlements of Fulton County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.
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