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8 National Register listings · 30 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1892 to 1921 · the 1884 county history tells 1 stories and names 1 people · people the book names include J. Adam Gottfried (Tymochtee Township, 1913) (machine-read).
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What the record shows
4 places in this county were surveyed for fire insurance: Upper Sandusky, Carey, Nevada, Sycamore, between 1884 and 1948.
24 fire insurance atlas(es) survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
271 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
8 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places, including 2 covered bridges, 2 houses and farms.
5 of the 8 listings were added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 25 populated places in this county; 0 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
2 public-domain county histories, 1884 and 1913, supply 229,391 words of narrative reproduced here in full.
What happened here
1 accounts
A captivity, a drowning, a famine, a man
scalped clearing his lot in 1789. These are passages from The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, written
while people who remembered the events were still alive, and each one
opens the section it comes from.
1884, Richland Township
First Events
Among the first settlers the first wedding which took place in this township was in December, 1834, celebrated at the residence of Conrad Wickiser (Section 21), the contracting parties being John Roberts and A.bigail Wickiser; the first birth was that of Maria James, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Miller) James, on the 1st day of March, 1835, in the northeast quarter of Section 1; and the first death was that of Elijah Benjamin, a child aged four years, who was killed December 25, 1834, by a tree, in the northwest quarter of Section 28; he is buried in the Stradley Graveyard, Delaware Township, Hancock County.
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.
Greek Revival House, McCutchenville, Wyandot County, OH Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Places on the National Register
8
Every property in this county listed on the
National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the
federal nomination document.
Wyandot County holds 2 covered bridges on
the National Register, more than any other property type here. Each is a listed
structure with a federal nomination on file.
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) - Map of Crawford County, Ohio. Library of Congress.
The county from the air
32 of 707 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. 707 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.
1951-10-01, scale 1:29600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1951-10-01, scale 1:29600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1951-10-01, scale 1:29600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1951-10-01, scale 1:29600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1959-04-23, scale 1:18000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1959-04-23, scale 1:18000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1959-04-23, scale 1:18000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1959-04-23, scale 1:18000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1960-05-03, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1960-05-03, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1960-05-03, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1960-05-03, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1970-07-16, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1970-07-16, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1970-07-16, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1970-07-16, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1971-03-26, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1971-03-26, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1971-03-26, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1971-03-26, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1972-05-05, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1972-05-05, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1972-05-05, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1972-05-05, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1973-10-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1973-10-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1973-10-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1973-10-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1977-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1977-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1977-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1977-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
City directories
1 volume
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.
UPPER SANDUSKY1893 to 2013, hottest 41.1 C, coldest -29.4 C
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.
88-1Nevada village, comprising parts of Antrim and Eden townships: Nevada village - That part in Antrim township
88-3Antrim township - That part outside Nevada village (Remainder of Antrim township is in Nevada village)
88-4Crane township- Outside Upper Sandusky village
88-5Crawford township: Carey village: Carey village - That part Bounded by Village limits; Village limits; E. South, Patterson, E. Findlay; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
88-6Carey village - That part Bounded by Village limits; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway; E. Findlay, W. Firidlay; Village limits
88-7Carey village - That part Bounded by W. Findlay, E. Findlay; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, Village limits; Village limits; Village limits
88-8Carey village - That part Bounded by E. Findlay, Patterson, E. South; Village limits; Village limits; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
88-9Crawford township - That part outside Carey village
88-10Eden township - That part outside Nevada village (Remainder of Eden township is in Nevada village)
88-11Kirby village, comprising parts of Jackson and Mifflin townships: Kirby village - That part in Jackson township
88-12Kirby village - That part in Mifflin township
88-13Jackson township - That part outside Kirby village (Remainder of Jackson township is in Kirby village)
88-26Upper Sandusky village: Upper Sandusky village - That part comprising Ward 1 Bounded by Village limits; Village limits; E. Wyandot Ave.; N. Sandusky Ave.
88-27Upper Sandusky village - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Village limits; Village limits, N. Sandusky Ave.; W. Wyandot Ave.; N. Hazel, Guthrie, N. Eighth
88-28Upper Sandusky village - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Village limits; N. Eighth, Guthrie, N. Hazel; W. Wyandot Ave., Ward line; Village limits
88-29Upper Sandusky village - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by W. Wyandot Ave.; S. Sandusky Ave., Ward line; Village limits; S. Hazel
88-30Upper Sandusky village - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by Ward line, W. Wyandot Ave.; S. Hazel; Village limits; Village limits
88-31Upper Sandusky village - That part comprising Ward 4 Bounded by E. Wyandot Ave.; Village limits; Village limits; Ward line, S. Sandusky Ave.
Businesses named in the atlases
30 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. 3 of these 30 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.
The
NOAA Storm Events Database holds
230 reports for this county, causing 2 deaths,
9 injuries and about $10,130,100 in recorded property damage.
Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
Kind of event
Reports
Thunderstorm Wind
137
Hail
55
Flash Flood
20
Tornado
9
Flood
6
Heavy Rain
1
Lightning
1
Funnel Cloud
1
The most serious of them, by death, then
injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the
forecast office filed them.
Spring Branch Run in Eden Township washed away portion of Township Highway 136/Route 36. A motorists drove into the flood waters and the vehicle was swept approximately 100 years to the west where a passenger perished. One fatality reported at 1:20 AM from a vehicle driving into the washout.
Heavy rains on July 12th through the 14th caused Tymochtee Creek to go into flood in western Wyandot County. State Route 53 was flooded by up to 6 feet of water approximately four miles west of Upper Sandusky near the intersection of Township Road 103. A 46 male apparently drove his truck into the flood waters around 2 am on July 14th. The man was later found deceased about 200 feet north of the highway. His truck was found completely submerged in the flood waters.
An intense line of thunderstorms or Derecho moved across Wyandot County during the afternoon of June 29th causing extensive damage. Winds were estimated to be as much as 80 mph. The southwest corner of the county was the hardest hit. Over 50 percent of residents lost power during this event. Power was not completely restored for several days. Hundreds, if not thousands of trees were downed across the county along with many utility poles forcing the closure of dozens of roads and streets. Damage to homes and buildings was also extensive. Dozens of homes and buildings lost roofing or siding with many other homes damaged by fallen trees. Clean up costs were extensive. The clean up was hampered by an ongoing heat wave with afternoon temperatures in the upper 90s. Significant crop losses are also expected. Damage from this storm was comparable to the remnants of Hurricane Ike in September 2008.
Thunderstorms dumped up to three inches of rain on Wyandot County during the early morning hours of May 21st. This rainfall combined with ground already saturated from heavy rains the previous few days led to widespread flooding. Over a dozen roads in the county were either washed out or flooded. Many homes sustained flood damage.
Heavy rainfall on the morning of July 13th caused the Spring Run to over-top its levees around 1045 am. By 11 am State Route 103 and 23 north were shut down. By 1140 am water started to inundate downtown Carey. Major flooding into homes and businesses in Carey occurred around 5 pm when water was at its deepest up to 6 deep. Sixty homes were affected, many from backups of storm drainage. Six to seven homes had water on West Ogg Street mainly from Spring Run. Dozens of businesses directly impacted, mostly with basement flooding. The water receded by 3 am Friday morning. The Tymochee Creek washed out some cross roads near ST RT 103 and RT 106. The waste water plant measured 3.8 in the southeast part of town, while unofficial reports of 5.5 in northern part of town. Radar estimates rainfall amounts between 4 and 6 inches of rain fell between 4 and 7 inches of rainfall during the same time period.
Thunderstorms produced a swath of large hail across the Upper Sandusky area. Some of the hail was as large as baseballs. Hundreds of vehicles and dozens of homes were damaged by this hail.
A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Wyandot County and downed many trees, large limbs and power lines. At least two buildings sustained damage.
A cluster of thunderstorms in Indiana moved into central Ohio midday. These storms had high rainfall rates. The hardest hit community was Nevada in Wyandot County around 115 pm. Radar estimates of 3-5 inches fell. Several basements on Morrison Street were inundated due to widespread overland flooding up to a foot deep. State Route 231 was closed in and around town due to high water. Several County roads were closed across the county. There were numerous basements and roads flooded in the area.
Severe thunderstorms moved across Wyandot County during the afternoon hours of June 22nd and produced wind gusts estimated to be around 70 mph. Many trees and large limbs were downed across the county. Utility poles and lines were also reported down at several locations. Many reports came from the Upper Sandusky area where several buildings sustained roof and siding damage. Three semi trucks were blown over on U.S. 23 in Upper Sandusky.
Heavy rainfall across southern portions of Wyandot County during the late afternoon and evening hours of July 12th totaled an estimated four to five inches. As a result, numerous roads became flooded with several feet of water. Marseilles Township was hit especially hard. A house located near State Routes 67 and 37 had it's first floor flooded by approximately 18 inches of water. A newspaper report indicated that this was the first time since 1959 that floodwaters came into the house. Other reports also indicated that the Tymochtee Creek rose quickly in Marseilles causing flash flooding in the area. Ditches along the sides of roads were reported to have as much as eight feet of water flowing through them.
A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Wyandot County and dumped up to an inch of rain on already saturated ground. Streams and rivers in flood or close to flood quickly rose forcing the closure several roads. Many homes and businesses sustained damage from the flooding.
Thunderstorms dumped two to four inches of rain on Wyandot County during the late afternoon and early evening hours. Widespread street and lowland flooding occurred with many streams and creeks leaving their banks. Many roads had to be closed due to flood waters up to four feet deep.
Thunderstorms dumped locally heavy rains on Wyandot County. Rainfall totals of two to three inches were reported. Widespread lowland and street flooding occurred. Several roads were briefly closed because of flooding.
Thunderstorm downburst winds damaged a farm nine miles west of Upper Sandusky. Two barn buildings were heavily damaged. A house nearby sustained roof damage. A large tree on the property was also toppled.
A tornado touched down along County Road 25A just south of Carey. A storm survey was conducted and this tornado was determined to be an EF0. This tornado damaged a couple of homes and destroyed at least two barns. The damage path was about three quarters of a mile long and about 10 yards in width. The tornado lifted near the intesection of County Road 25A and County Road 98B.
Numerous trees were reported down across the area. A building in downtown Carey had its roof stripped off of it, and a barn suffered severe structural damage.
A main thruway in Wyandot County sustained a washout due to heavy rain on the 19th. The eastbound lanes of U.S. 30 near Upper Sandusky the road closure was just east of U.S. 23 in Wyandot County. The damage was caused by a 90-inch culvert, that washed out and eroded about 20 feet under the eastbound lane to the center line. Most of the flood came as overland runoff from agricultural fields adjacent to the highway.
Twelve trees downed in Upper Sandusky with additional trees and powerlines downed countywide. A semi truck was blown over at weigh station near the intersection of U.S. Highways 23 and 30.
Heavy rain producing thunderstorms affected Wyandot County during the late evening hours of August 20th and early morning hours of August 21st. Rainfall rates with the strongest storms exceeded three inches per hour. Up to six inches of rain was reported in the Upper Sandusky area by 4 am. A Cooperative Observer in Upper Sandusky reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 9.35 inches at 7 am with most of this rain falling between 11 pm and 4 am. An automated gauge at Kildeer Plain State Park recorded 4.10 inches. Runoff from this rain combined with ground already saturated from earlier rains led to catastrophic flooding across portions of Wyandot County. The Carey area was especially hard hit as flooding destroyed or heavily damaged several dozen homes. A total of 176 homes and 42 businesses in the town were damaged. 9 of 15 homes along West South Street were destroyed. By 3 am the flood waters were over knee deep in many locations and many streets were closed. Significant flooding was also reported in the Upper Sandusky and Sycamore areas. Near Sycamore, two teenagers had to be rescued after they were swept into Sycamore Creek by surging flood waters. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from their homes in the county, including several dozen from a nursing home in Carey. A total of 159 homes are believed to have been destroyed or sustained more than 50 percent losses in the county. Over 500 additional homes and businesses sustained lesser damages from the flooding. At the peak of the flooding, around daybreak on the 21st, nearly every federal, state and county road in the county was closed because of flooding. Damage to roads, bridges and culverts was extensive. Cleanup and overtime costs incurred by local government agencies was substantial. In the City of Carey alone, nearly 600 tons of flood debris had to be removed. Finally, standing water and erosion from the runoff caused damage to agricultural interests in the county. |
Several windows blown-out and roof damaged at dealership on the northeast side of Upper Sandusky. A semi truck was blown-over in the same area. Damage was related to a line of thunderstorms.
Thunderstorm winds downed two trees and several large tree limbs. One of the trees landed on a house and caused minor structural damage. Fallen tree limbs also damaged two cars.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused flooding of small streams and low lying areas. A number of roads had high water on them and several roads had to be closed due to flood waters.
Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in the northeastern portion of the county with scattered large limbs down elsewhere in Wyandot County.
Mines and
quarries
10 recorded
The Survey's mineral resources record
lists 10 workings inside this county. 7 still
produce and 3 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement
page carries the workings within five miles of it.
Commodity
Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction
5
Stone, Crushed/Broken
4
Clay
1
The least common of them first, because a
county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
Museum specimens collected inside this
county and catalogued with a date and a place: 344 of them, by
kingdom 309 animalia, 29 fungi, 6 plantae. 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), UMMZ, INHS, Ohio State University - Amphibian Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), Ohio State University - Reptile 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.
The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.; devotes a chapter to each township:
its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the
schools and the churches. All 11 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 The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.; 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 1884.
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.
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.
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.