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Appleton, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Bennington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43031. The Survey maps it on the Fredonia quadrangle.

Appleton within Licking County

Then and now

1908 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Appleton, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Appleton, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 printed 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

5,269 words on this township

History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Bennington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The general face of the township is level or gently undulating, and it is well watered by North fork of Licking and its tributaries. The North fork rises partly in the northwest corner of this township, and passing a short distance through the northern part, enters Khox county about the center of the northern line of this township, re-entering the township again and passing across the northeast comer. The largest stream in the township - which, however, is not large - is the Otter fork, a tributary of the North fork It passes across the township from west to east, near its center, pass ing across part of Burlington township, and entering the North fork near the village of Homer. The Lake fork, another tributary of the North fork, rises in the southern and western parts of this township, and running eastwardly, passes across the southern portion of this and Burlington townships, entering the North fork in Washingtontownship about half way between Utica and St. Louisville. Upon a tributary of Lake fork, Indian run, is situated the village of Appleton. The tributaries of this stream water all the southern part of the township. Many beautiful springs are located in this township, but it is not so prolific in

Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.

Bennington presents few traces of the Mound Builders, and those not remarkable. The Indians seem to have left few traces or reminiscences of their occupation. Few, or perhaps, no people now living in the township remember seeing them, and they probably had no permanent camp within its limits, at least in historic times. A very small camp, not however permanent, once had an existence on Indian run, near its junction with the Lake fork. . It disappeared shortly after the first settlement, but probably gave name to that stream.

Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.

Henry lies, who settled there in the spring of 1809. He was from Rockingham county, Virginia. John Dripps and Isaac Vanausdel followed him in 1810, locating near the North fork. John Trout, in the same or next year, located on Otter fork, where also Peter Staymates settled soon after. Settlers continued to come in year after year, generally from Pennsylvania and Virginia, until the principal part of the territory of the township was settled. It was divided into ordinary sized farms, and nearly all the township occupied, by 1835.

Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.

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 Bennington Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,373 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,373 specimens collected within 10 miles of Appleton between 1881 and 1975: 1,343 Animalia, 19 Fungi, 11 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. P. Morgan; Ellis, A. R. Elliott 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1863not recordedUSA, NNO-, OHIO*, GHOTA RIVER ,
A photograph of the species Melanitta nigra, not of this specimenMelanitta nigra americana (Swainson, 1832)1881not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Spinus tristis, not of this specimenSpinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Picoides pubescens, not of this specimenPicoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1886not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981888not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus Muhl. ex Willd.1888E. BarrickFredonia
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1888E. BarrickFredonia
A photograph of the species Puccinia seymeriae, not of this specimenPuccinia seymeriae Burrill1890not recordedAlexandria
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1893N. G. BuxtonJohnstown

All 1,373 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Appleton in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2020Flash FloodAppleton$3,000A water rescue occurred near the intersection of Van Fossen Road and Shipley Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAppleton$1,000A tree was downed onto Cooper Road near Appleton Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindAppleton$1,000Two small trees were downed along with several large branches from larger trees.
August 2014Tornado (EF0)Appleton-Video from the public confirmed a very brief and weak tornado on the ground for a few seconds with minimal damage.
August 2017HailAppleton-no account filed
August 2017HailAppleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Decrow Corners1.4 miles11
Barrick Corners3.7 miles11
Cokesbury Corners4.0 miles11
Lock4.3 miles10
New Way4.4 miles11
Croton4.5 miles11
Concord4.7 miles11
Pattons Corners5.3 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AppletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033082The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1037457. 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.

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.

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.