Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Ankenytown, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Berlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43019. It stands on Markley Run. The Survey maps it on the Bellville quadrangle.

Ankenytown within Knox County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ankenytown, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Ankenytown, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

8,876 words on this township

A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive; Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes .., published 1862; History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Berlin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

John Lewis and his family, Quakers, were here in 1808. November 14th, 1857, John, Jr., died. Casper Fitting, in 1808, lived with his family on the place, since known as the Harter stand. He is dead, and his sons, Frederick and Solomon, are living ; the former a successful merchant at Bellville.

Passage source: A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive; Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes .., published 1862.

Amos H. Royce, the first justice of the peace in this township, came to Frede.acktown in 1809, and settled in this township in 18 10. He was born in 1786, in Connecticut, removed with his father to New York State, and from there to this county. This remarkable pioneer is yet living in Fredericktown at the age ot ninety-four, and is yet in full possession of his mental faculties and enjoying good health, with a fair prospect of completing, at least a century on earth. His father was a Revolutionary soldier, and for this service obtained a land warrant for lands located in this township, upon which Amos H. settled with a family of ten children, viz: Norton D., Mary, Emeline, Sally, Louisa M., Julia Ann, Alfred, Laura, Lucy and Jane A. Those now living are Emeline, Julia Ann, Laura and Jane A. Amos H. Royce was a soldier in the War of 181 2, serving on the frontier and with General Hull for a short time, and for this service draws a pension. He was one of the soldiers surrendered by Hull. He assisted in building a block-house at Mansfield and one at Trucksville, and was stationed at New Haven, or rather encamped on the site of that village, at the time of the Copus murder, and was one of a squad of soldiers that followed that same band of Indians a short distance just prior to the massacre, they having encamped the night before the murder near the site of New Haven.

Passage source: History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881.

E. Richardson moved to the West, but his brother became a judge, and was an influential man in the county. The descendants of the Kreighers and Robertses are, some of them, yet living on the old places, where their fathers settled in 1808 or 1809. John Long was a relative by marriage of the Leedys; one of his family is now a resident of Pike township. Joseph Lane came from Connecticut, and married the daughter of Stephen Cole; he was a cabinetmaker. Daniel Hetrick and his brother came from Bedford county, Pennsylvania; the former marxied a Leedy and raised a large family, some of -whom are yet living in this neighborhood. John Moltzbaugh came about 1815; he was a Dunkard preacher, and with the help of the Leedys organized a Dunkard church. Stephen Cole came from Connecticut, settling here about 1 81 6, and becoming an influential man among the pioneers. His family consisted of Stephen, jr., Wilbur, Henry, Russel (now living in Chicago) and two daughters. Wilbur now occupies the old homestead.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Berlin Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Fires near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ankenytown between 2018 and 2018, burning about 0 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
13 April 2018	Natural	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	14465

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 361 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 361 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ankenytown between 1837 and 1974: 328 Animalia, 25 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, A. P. Morgan, Andriessen, H. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke	1883	Dr. W.A. Kellerman
Pestalotia De Not., 1841	1883	W. A. Kellermann	No locality on label
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	Kellerman
Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1837	Müller	Ohio
Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1863	Turati (comte), Ercole
Delphinium exaltatum Aiton	1877	E Sheets
Hydrastis canadensis L.	1877	E Sheets
Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)	1879	Willard L. Maris
Lobelia inflata L.	1881	Andriessen, H.	near Fredericktown, OH
Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
Phyllosticta verbenae Sacc., 1879	1883	Prof. Kellerman
Ramularia arvensis Sacc.	1883	Kellerman

All 361 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ankenytown: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fredericktown Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fredericktown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fredericktown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ankenytown in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ankenytown	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds toppled a large tree which knocked some power lines down.
April 2002	Hail	Ankenytown	$5,000	Dime size hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Knox County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Palmyra	2.0 miles	12
Lake View	2.7 miles	11
South Bay	2.9 miles	11
Fredericktown	4.1 miles	11
Batemantown	4.9 miles	12
North Liberty	5.1 miles	14
Knox	5.4 miles	11
Waterford	6.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064330. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.