105 topographic sheets and 29 fire insurance atlases across 6 places.
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52 National Register listings · 81 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1884 to 1946 · the 1881 county history tells 3 stories and names 423 people · people the book names include Thomas Algeo (Licking Township, 1909) (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 History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, written while people who remembered the events were still alive, and each one opens the section it comes from.
(31 BRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth Presi- LA dent of the United States, was born in Hardin (1 County, Ky., February 12, 1809. About the year 1780, a man by the name of Abraham Lincoln left Virginia with his family and moved into the then wilds of Kentucky. Only two years after this emigration, and while still a young man, he was working one day in a field, when an Indian stealthily approached and killed him.
ing of the father and three children, returned to Ohio, and for a time resided in Wooster, Wayne County. In 1853 he settled on an unimproved farm in Putnam County, Ohio, and in September of the same year he was brutally murdered by an intoxicated neighbor, simply for the reason that Mr. Lyon, who was a Christian, reproved him for using excessively profane language.
Licking County', Ohio. About 1828, lie married Sarah Wickham, of Muskingum County. They made their home in Licking County about six years, when they removed to Mt. Sterling, Muskingum County, where in 1838 Mr. Carter was murdered by a man by the name of Kemp. His widow, in 1843, married Mason Redman, by whom she had two children.
Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Avery-Hunter House | building | 1979 | 79001877 |
 | Bancroft, A. A., House | building | 1980 | 80003135 |
| Belle Hall Covered Bridge | structure | 1976 | 76001464 | |
 | Bethel Baptist Church | building | 1983 | 83001990 |
 | Bryn Mawr | building | 1983 | 83001991 |
 | Buxton Inn | building | 1972 | 72001029 |
 | Carpenter, Wallace W., House | building | 1980 | 80003136 |
 | Casterton House | building | 1983 | 83001992 |
 | Cedar Hill Cemetery Buildings | building | 1977 | 77001071 |
| Colony Burying Ground, Old | district | 2005 | 05000577 | |
 | Courthouse Center | building | 1979 | 79001879 |
 | Dustin Cabin | building | 1980 | 80003137 |
 | Elliot House | building | 1983 | 83004315 |
| Evans--Holton--Owens House | building | 1986 | 86002874 | |
 | Fuller House | building | 1991 | 91000304 |
 | Home Building Association Bank | building | 1973 | 73001495 |
 | Hull Place | building | 1979 | 79001880 |
 | Jersey Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall | building | 2018 | 100002232 |
 | Johnstown Jail | building | 2003 | 03000274 |
 | Kauber, Warren F., Funeral Home | building | 1983 | 83001993 |
 | Licking County Courthouse | building | 1973 | 73001496 |
 | Lynnwood Farm | building | 1979 | 79001878 |
 | McCune's Villa | building | 1982 | 82003602 |
| McNamar-McLure-Miller Residence | building | 1982 | 82003603 | |
 | Mead House | building | 1983 | 83001994 |
 | Monroe Township Hall-Opera House | building | 1981 | 81000446 |
 | Newark High School | building | 2015 | 15000613 |
 | Oakwood | building | 1980 | 80003141 |
| Ohio Canal Groundbreaking Site | site | 1973 | 73001493 | |
 | Outville Depot | building | 1995 | 95001034 |
 | Outville Hay and Grain Company Building | building | 2018 | 100002233 |
 | Pataskala Banking Company | building | 1983 | 83001996 |
 | Pataskala Elementary School | building | 1983 | 83001995 |
 | Pataskala Jail | building | 1983 | 83001997 |
 | Pataskala Presbyterian Church | building | 1983 | 83004323 |
 | Pataskala Town Hall | building | 1983 | 83001998 |
 | Pataskala United Methodist Church | building | 1983 | 83001999 |
 | Pennsylvania Railway Station | building | 1979 | 79001881 |
 | Pitzer, Anthony, Jr., House | building | 1988 | 88001297 |
 | Rhoads, Peter F., House | building | 1980 | 80003142 |
 | Rodrick Bridge | structure | 1998 | 98000442 |
 | Rogers House | building | 1980 | 80003139 |
 | Rose, Capt. Levi, House | building | 1980 | 80003140 |
 | Sherwood-Davidson And Buckingham Houses | building | 1977 | 77001072 |
 | Shield's Block | building | 1978 | 78002101 |
 | St. Luke's Episcopal Church | building | 1976 | 76001465 |
| Stanbery, Edwin, Office | building | 1978 | 78002100 | |
 | Upham-Wright House | building | 1979 | 79001882 |
| Upham-Wright House | building | 1979 | 79001882 |
 | Upland Farm | building | 1978 | 78002102 |
| West Side Planing Mill (rear) | building | 1983 | 83002000 | |
 | Williams, Elias, House | building | 1979 | 79001883 |
Licking County holds 1 covered bridges on the National Register, more than any other property type here. Each is a listed structure with a federal nomination on file.
| Belle Hall Covered Bridge | Listed 1976, 0 map sheets show this crossing |
Sampled issues, machine-read from the Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline and column is searchable text.
[Newark, Ohio], 1917 to 1946. 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.
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. 1,156 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. 14 of these 81 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
1896 to 1922, named in 4 atlases
Appears in 1896 1907 1912 1922
On the National Register as Pataskala United Methodist Church
Church
1896 to 1912, named in 3 atlases
Read elsewhere as Baptist Church; Primitive Baptist Church.
Church
1922 to 1922, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as North to Church.
Church
named once, in the 1922 atlas
Appears in 1922
On the National Register as Pataskala United Methodist Church
Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 64 of them, burning about 156 acres. 0 started naturally and 1 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15708 |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 664 |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 October 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15285 |
| 9 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12348 |
| 7 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 3345 |
| 17 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 6866 |
| 9 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7411 |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 573 reports for this county, causing 4 deaths, 37 injuries and about $137,765,700 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 333 |
| Hail | 122 |
| Flood | 47 |
| Flash Flood | 36 |
| Tornado | 29 |
| Heavy Rain | 4 |
| Lightning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnstown | 2 killed, 4 hurt, $110,000 | A microburst hit an egg facility causing the collapse of three large barns and damaging another. This resulted in the fatalities of two men working in one of the collapsed structures. A large rooftop air conditioning unit was also pushed off the roof of an adjacent administrative building. Around the area there were several trees down and numerous broken limbs. In addition to the fatalities, four injuries were also reported. |
| May 1985 | Tornado (F3) | not stated | 1 killed, 20 hurt, $25,000,000 | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newark | 1 killed, 1 hurt | ,,,,,,,,Lightning Winds of 60 mph were reported in Newark. Large hail fell in Hebron where lightning killed a 46-year-old man as he attempted to untie a dog from under a tree to get it to shelter from the hail storm. A 33-year-old woman at the scene was also struck and injured. The dog was unharmed. |
| June 1980 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | 5 hurt, $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| August 1988 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | 4 hurt | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Pataskala | 1 hurt, $100,000,000 | Large hail to golf ball size fell for an extended period of time across the far western portion of the county, causing widespread significant damage. Thirty to forty mobile homes and numerous vehicles were severely damaged. A few subdivisions in the Pataskala area had homes that sustained extensive roof and siding damage. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hartford and | 1 hurt, $500,000 | Trees were downed. Damage was significant just north of Newark where 20 utility poles were downed along with numerous trees. Winds in excess of 60 mph may have been caused by a microburst. A motorist was injured when a falling utility pole struck her car. |
| November 1965 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | 1 hurt, $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $2,000,000 | An estimated 8 inches of rain fell across the county in less than 6 hours. Numerous roads were closed, including Interstate 71,and many houses and businesses were flooded. The county was declared a disaster area by the state of Ohio. |
| September 2000 | Tornado (F2) | Johnstown | $1,000,000 | A tornado tracked out of Delaware county across the northwestern part of the county and then continued into Knox county. The storm lifted briefly in spots but maintained a 25 mile track across the three counties, mainly in rural areas. Eleven homes received major damage and 4 received minor damage. Several barns and outbuildings were also destroyed. Twelve buildings at the Buckeye Egg Company were destroyed, trapping one million chickens inside. |
| March 2020 | Flash Flood | Newark Heath Arpt | $900,000 | A portion State Route 79 was was completely washed out. An unoccupied vehicle was swept into the flood waters. |
| March 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Hartford | $500,000 | The tornado developed at 2001EST, about 3 miles south of Delaware, and moved east southeast across Delaware County. It entered Licking County at 2021EST, about 4 miles west-southwest of Hartford, where the damage path remained quite wide and was likely a complex mix of straight-line winds on the immediate southern flank of the tornadic circulation. However, the damage was very consistent with wind speeds ranging from 90 to 100 mph across most of Licking County. Along this entire stretch of the damage path, the damage was a combination of partial roofs removed on some homes, barns completely destroyed or heavily damaged, widespread trees uprooted and snapped, and power poles snapped. ||The tornado dissipated between State Route 13 and Horns Hills Road south of St. Louisville. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $500,000 | Trees were downed. Two homes had their roofs removed at National Road and Mink. |
| August 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Utica | $300,000 | A tornado knocked down numerous trees, destroyed 2 barns, and caused significant damage to 4 homes. |
| June 1990 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 1986 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 1980 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| September 1978 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| April 1968 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| February 2024 | Tornado (EF2) | Jersey | $200,000 | The tornado began in Franklin County at 0549EST in the Havens Corners area. It moved east-northeast and entered Licking County near the intersection of Dixon and McOwen Roads at 0553EST. The tornado caused a wide swath of tree and structural damage along its path across Graham Road SW and the Jersey area. Structural damage was mainly in the form of windows blown out, destroyed barns, and minor roof removal. The tornado slowly weakened as it moved east-northeast toward the southwest side of Granville where it dissipated. Along this stretch, mainly tree and very minor structural damage was noted. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homer | $100,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed across northern portions of Licking County. |
| March 2020 | Flash Flood | Heath | $100,000 | A trailer park was evacuated due to fast rising waters. Numerous roads were also flooded throughout the county. |
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Buckeye Vly Arpt | $100,000 | The tornado touched down and snapped numerous healthy pine trees that were 12 to 18 inches in diameter. A large cottonwood tree was also snapped. Several tree branches were blown down on roofs, with some siding damage to a garage. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum wind speed of this tornado was estimated to be 95 miles per hour. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Outville | $60,000 | The tornado touched down in two locations within a mile. At the first location the damage included the removal of part of a roof of a larger metal sized garage. In addition, a supporting post was snapped, one side of the building was blown inward, and metal doors on the opposite side were blown outward. There was also a smaller garage with major damage to a metal door. About four to five large trees were uprooted in this area as well. The circulation was not on the ground for the entire path. At the second location where damage occurred, the tornado removed a large section of metal and wood roofing from a large barn. The debris was spread up to one-quarter of a mile downwind from the barn. In addition, there were three to four pieces of the barn debris impaled in the ground. A door was removed from a smaller storage shed and some damage occurred to one corner of a house where part of the roof was lifted up. The damage at these locations indicated wind speeds ranged from 75 to 80 miles per hour. |
| February 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $50,000 | Numerous trees were uprooted and several buildings were damaged at Lake Hudson near Granville. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Linnville | $50,000 | The tornado developed in Franklin Township near Sand Hollow Road SE and moved northeast, causing mainly tree and minor structural damage along its path. Tree damage was noted in a path from Sand Hollow Road SE, northeast along Fairview Road, and then on Brownsville Road SE and across Poplar Forks Road SE before it dissipated. Minor structural damage to barns and outbuildings was also noted on Poplar Forks Road SE as well as Fairview Road. Damage along the entire path was estimated to be caused by 70 to 75 mph winds. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Purity | $50,000 | The tornado developed in the vicinity of Purity Road where some outbuildings sustained considerable damage, with metal roofing and siding material getting tossed and wrapped in adjacent tree stands. Groves of soft white pine were snapped in a few locations. ||The tornado continued east across Stradley Road and then to Rocky Fork and Rain Rock Roads where more groves of pine trees were snapped and thrown on both roads. Large limbs were thrown onto a house on Rocky Fork Road and metal barn roofing was lifted. Garage doors were also blown in and spatter was noted on buildings and vehicles on Rain Rock Road. A clear path of tree/vegetation loss was seen in this area. The tornado dissipated on the east side of Rain Rock Road. ||Damage along the entire path was consistent with wind speeds of 70 to 75 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linnville | $50,000 | Several trees and power lines were downed in southeast Licking County. |
| March 2020 | Flash Flood | Newark | $50,000 | A sinkhole developed on Spring Street. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnstown | $50,000 | Numerous trees were downed and two roofs were removed from houses due to thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heath | $50,000 | Three industrial buildings were damaged due to thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vanatta | $50,000 | Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A house had the roof removed and the garage collapsed due to the winds. Several large pine trees landed on outbuildings, carports, and homes. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newark | $50,000 | Numerous trees downed. One tree fell on a home, and two other trees severely damaged two automobiles. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down from 200 to 300 trees on a 5 mile path north and northeast of Granville. Nickel size hail also occurred in Newark. |
| September 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | $50,000 | Dozens of trees were downed. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Alexandria | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF2) | Newark Heath Arpt | $45,000 | A broken damage path was observed from just west of heath near the Newark-Heath Airport to State Route 13 east of Heath. Trees were snapped off between two and fifteen feet above the ground just west of the airport. A store just east-northeast of the airport had a section of the sign on the front of the store removed. A small business had its metal roof partially peeled away. Further along the path, a masonry building was damaged substantially with one wall completely collapsed along with half of another. Several large trees were uprooted or snapped along the path. Some of the trees pulled up a large amount of rock in which they were previously embedded. Maximum wind speed based on damage is around 120 miles per hour. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fleatown | $40,000 | Numerous trees were downed throughout Licking County, including a tree that fell on a house in Pataskala. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Union Station | $40,000 | A culvert under Deeds Rd was washed out due to flooding of Ramp Creek. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $40,000 | Numerous trees were downed in the Granville area. A few barns were also damaged and/or destroyed and a home just south of town was damaged. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Clay Lick | $40,000 | A mobile home on the west side of Brushy Fork Road, southeast of Brownsville Road, was destroyed. The mobile home rolled over and the roof and lengthwise side were removed and blown into trees immediately to the east. Trees were snapped or uprooted in the vicinity of the mobile home. Roof damage was observed at a residence on the east side of Brushy Fork Road. Further along the path, trees were snapped on a hillside. Estimated maximum wind speed based on damage is around 109 miles per hour. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Outville | $40,000 | Several roofs were damaged and a storage shed was blown off its foundation due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Siding was also ripped off of a building due to the winds. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnstown | $40,000 | Structural damage to one house in Monroe Township near Johnstown. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newark | $30,000 | A large portion of an old building undergoing renovation collapsed along Union Street. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | $30,000 | Structural damage occurred to an Ice Cream Factory due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $30,000 | Numerous trees and power poles were downed. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reform | $25,000 | Fifty to one hundred trees were downed at a property on Mary Ann Furnace Road. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $25,000 | Nearly 100 trees were downed, mainly in the eastern half of the county. |
| August 1992 | Tornado (F0) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1958 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Granville | $24,000 | Twelve power poles were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Etna | $20,000 | Numerous trees were knocked down, along with a few windows blown out. A few homes also experienced roof damage. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Buckeye Lake | $20,000 | Heavy rain caused water to enter the lower level of a home. Multiple roads were also closed in the area. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $20,000 | A barn was destroyed north of Millersport due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | National Rd | $20,000 | Trees and limbs were reported down in Hanover due to thunderstorm winds. Wires were reported down near Buckeye Lake. Scattered power outages occurred across the southeastern portions of Licking County. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $20,000 | Trees and powerlines were downed near the intersection of State Route 16 and State Route 146. Route 16 was closed for a period due to debris on the road. |
| July 1997 | Lightning | Newark | $20,000 | Lightning struck the Modern financing building sparking a fire the caused substantial damage. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Newark | $20,000 | Lightning struck a house which caused a fire that damaged the shed and a storage room. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pataskala Zeune Arpt | $15,000 | A tree fell onto a parked vehicle. |
| June 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Marne | $15,000 | A brief tornado is believed to have occurred near Lesley and Claylick Roads, where a swath of concentrated tree and minor structural damage was observed. The damage was congruent with estimated wind speeds around 80 mph. |
The Survey's mineral resources record lists 16 workings inside this county. 7 still produce and 9 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
| Commodity | Workings |
|---|---|
| Sand and Gravel, Construction | 15 |
| Clay | 1 |
The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanover Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Alexandria Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Alexandria Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dry Creek Crushed Gravel Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Dry Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Dry Creek Pit No 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Farm Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Farm Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hoskinson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Jones Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Newark No. 214 Dredge & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Rockport Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Van Wey Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Van Wey Sand and Gravel Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Walters Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Walters Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Museum specimens collected inside this county and catalogued with a date and a place: 4,477 of them, by kingdom 4,093 animalia, 283 fungi, 72 plantae, 26 protozoa, 3 chromista. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), Ohio State University - Amphibian Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), Ohio State University Acarology Laboratory, Columbus, OH (OSAL), UMMZ, Ohio State University - Mammal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1843 | Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth. | Plantae | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio | Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant | PH PH00111375 |
 | 1843 | Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | Plantae | in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio | A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant | CINC CINC-B-0043186 |
 | 1853 | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | Animalia | Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA | Mack, D. (Don) | Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 8078 |
 | 1863 | Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818) | Animalia | Usa, Nno-, Ohio*, Ghota River | not recorded | SMF 23222 |
 | 1872 | Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758) | Animalia | Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 1604 |
 | 1874 | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789 | Animalia | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA | not recorded | Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 276 |
 | 1878 | Calidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813) | Animalia | Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA | Savage, E. (Ed) | Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 147 |
 | 1878 | Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Animalia | Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA | not recorded | Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 283 |
History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 20 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.
Everyone History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present 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 1881.
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 6 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.
Union township · 43008 · On Crane Island · Thornville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1992
Fire insurance: 3 atlases
Granville township · 43023 · On Parnassus Hill · Granville quadrangle
10 sheets, 1908 to 1966
Fire insurance: 5 atlases
Union township · 43025 · Thornville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1992
Fire insurance: 2 atlases
Monroe township · 43031 · On Kiber Run · Johnstown quadrangle
11 sheets, 1908 to 1966
Fire insurance: 5 atlases
Newark city · 43055 · On Log Pond Run · Newark quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1966
Fire insurance: 8 atlases
Washington township · 43080 · Utica quadrangle
10 sheets, 1909 to 1966
Fire insurance: 6 atlases
St. Albans township · 43001 · On Simpson Run · Granville quadrangle
10 sheets, 1908 to 1966
Bowling Green township · 43076 · On Paddy Run · Thornville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1992
Granville township · 43023 · On Simonds Run · Newark quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1966
No longer a settlement
Bowling Green township · 43721 · On Eagle Nest Hill · Glenford quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1992
Pataskala city · 43062 · On Muddy Fork · Pataskala quadrangle
13 sheets, 1907 to 1992
Licking township · 43076 · On Bope Island · Thornville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1992
Fallsbury township · 43822 · On Fox Den Knob · Perryton quadrangle
10 sheets, 1910 to 1966
Licking township · 43076 · On Peterson Island · Thornville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1992
Licking township · 43076 · On Peterson Island · Thornville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1992
Union township · 43025 · On Watkins Island · Millersport quadrangle
11 sheets, 1907 to 1984
Heath city · 43056 · On Ramp Creek · Newark quadrangle
12 sheets, 1909 to 1966
No longer a settlement
Harrison township · 43033 · On Slim Creek · Millersport quadrangle
11 sheets, 1907 to 1984
Pataskala city · 43062 · In Coon Hollow · Jersey quadrangle
10 sheets, 1908 to 1966
Union township · 43025 · Thornville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1992
No longer a settlement
Jersey township · 43062 · On Beavers Hill · Jersey quadrangle
10 sheets, 1908 to 1966
Newton township · 43071 · In Wyoming Valley · Utica quadrangle
10 sheets, 1909 to 1966
St. Albans township · 43001 · On Moots Run · Granville quadrangle
10 sheets, 1908 to 1966
Fallsbury township · 43822 · On Fox Den Knob · Perryton quadrangle
10 sheets, 1910 to 1966
St. Albans township · 43062 · On Cornell Run · Jersey quadrangle
10 sheets, 1908 to 1966
Newton township · 43055 · On Clear Fork Licking River · Utica quadrangle
10 sheets, 1909 to 1966
Union township · 43025 · On Hickory Island (historical) · Millersport quadrangle
11 sheets, 1907 to 1984
12 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases, 1884 to 1961
10 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases, 1893 to 1951
10 topographic sheets and 5 fire insurance atlases, 1896 to 1937
11 topographic sheets and 5 fire insurance atlases, 1900 to 1942
14 topographic sheets and 3 fire insurance atlases, 1929 to 1946
14 topographic sheets and 2 fire insurance atlases, 1929 to 1929
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 Licking County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.
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