Bacon, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Linton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43812. The Survey maps it on the Wills Creek quadrangle.

Bacon within Coshocton County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bacon, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Bacon, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1908 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:62500
1910 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Wills Creek quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1994 USGS Wills Creek quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

18,159 words on this township

Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio :, published 1876; History of Coshocton County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, 1740-1881. Containing a Comprehensive History of Ohio; a Complete History of Coshocton County ... a History of Its Soldiers in the Late War ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Linton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

As early as 1808 Andrew Tairare built a little mill 011 Wills creek, about fifty rods above where the mill now stands, but a freshet soon swept it away. A few years later Mr. Loose built a mill near the mouth of Bacon run, making, wnth the volunteered help of the neighbors, a race some eighty rods long. But that was the day of liard toil. A walk of ten or twenty miles for a quarter of tea by a boy was nothing unusual, and a journey to Cambridge or Zanesville for a little flour was a common thing. Of Thomas Johnson an extended account is given in the " Biographical Sketches."

Passage source: Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio :, published 1876.

Near Plainfield, about 1840, Mr. J. D. Workman opened a small earthen mound on his place. He found nothing except several storie relics. Another, about two miles below, was excavated some ten years later by Wesley Patrick. It contained a few bones belonging to the human skeleton, including the skull, jaw bone "and thigh. These were of an unusually large size and indicated the skeleton to be fully seven feet in length.

Passage source: History of Coshocton County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, 1740-1881. Containing a Comprehensive History of Ohio; a Complete History of Coshocton County ... a History of Its Soldiers in the Late War ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881.

Thomas Phillips relates that it was the custom of his father, George Phillips, to turn his horses out in the open woods in the evening to pasture, and that the Indians would drive them away to a considerable distance during the night and hide them; then the next morning they would appear at Phillips' cabin and, learning of the lost horses, oiTer to find them for a dollar. The little game was successfully played several times until Phillips suspected and accused them of it. He was hunting one day and had brought down a fine deer; this he hung on a sapling and started in pursuit of another deer, in his haste leaving his hat behind. When he returned both deer and hat were gone. Some time afterward he recognized a silver buckle belonging to the lost hat in the' possession of the innkeeper at Cambridge. Questioning him about it, Phillips learned that it had been obtained from an Indian called Doughty, who had sold the buckle and kept the hat, but not daring or caring to wear it abroad had used it to sleep In.

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 Linton Township - it names this place 11 more 11 times.

Fires near this place

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bacon between 2005 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	6

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
8 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7872
23 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15666
21 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11566
15 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7874
15 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7875
13 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15182
12 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,212 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,212 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bacon between 1846 and 1974: 577 Plantae, 512 Animalia, 117 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Spreitzer, Albaugh, W. F. 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
Bulgaria rufa Schwein.	1942	H. Moldenke	Coshocton, North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Calvatia rubroflava (Cragin) Lloyd	1942	H. Moldenke	Coshcoton; N. Appl. Exp. Watershed, near Coshocton
Campanulastrum americanum (L.) Small	1942	Harold N. Moldenke	North Appalachian Experimental Watershed, near Coshocton.
Tortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu	1846	W. S. Sullivant
Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	No Person (Birds)	Coshocton Co
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	No Person (Birds)	Coshocton Co
Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)	1898	Williamson, E. B.	Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
Hemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton

All 1,212 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Plainfield	3.1 miles	16
West Lafayette	4.0 miles	16
Village Court	4.1 miles	16
Fairview Manor	4.2 miles	16
Morgan Run	4.3 miles	16
Stringtown (historical)	4.4 miles	16
Pleasant Valley	4.5 miles	14
Hardscrabble	4.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057280. 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.