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Bangs, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43050. It stands on Beach Run. The Survey maps it on the Homer quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1966The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Fredericktown quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Fredericktown quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Liberty township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Sein Alter War 71
Of these children one is renowned as having built Fort Wintermoot, near Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. One was said to have been killed in the massacre of the Wyoming, one killed in battle, one uniting his fortunes with the British removed to Canada, where his descendants now reside, near Fort Erie, and who are reputed to be quite wealthy.
In the county-history sources
9,782 words on this townshipHistory 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 Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Beulah Methodist Protestant church is located on the Mt. Vernon & Columbus road, in the southeastern part of the township, near Bangs Station. This church was first organized on the fourteenth day of November, 1847, with Rev. Abram K. Earle as pastor. Amongst the original members were Berry Roby, Margaret Roby, Garretson Brown, Ann Brown, Amelia Brown, Lydia Orme, and Ann Browm.
Liberty chapel, a Methodist Protestant church, was organized in February, 1847, ^t Bedell's schoolhouse, in Liberty township, near the Old Delaware road, by Rev. John Lamb. The original members were David Morris, Mary Morris, Mrs. Richard Ewalt, Sarah Myers, John Garden and his wife, Mrs. Dart, David Willis, Susan Willis, Seth Willis, Mary Willis, and John Merrihew and wife. The society continued to meet in Bedell's schoolhouse till the present chapel was erected in 1856. The pastors at this chapel have been as follows : Revs. John Lamb, Thomas Potter, S. Catlin, James Winn, D. B. Dorsey, J. W. Southard, J. H. Hamilton, G. Clancey, Chauncey Baldwin, W. H. Marshall, A K. Earle, N. S. Brown, J. H. Hamilton, George Burnes, A. Abbott, G. W. Hissey, W. A. Sampson, E. W. Grimes, T. L. Dibble, J. W. Woodward, and L. Bowman. The present membership is seventy.
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 Liberty Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bangs between 2012 and 2012, burning about 6 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 950 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 950 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bangs between 1835 and 1975: 881 Animalia, 47 Fungi, 21 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Fusicladium Bonord. | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann | |
 | Pestalotia De Not., 1841 | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann | No locality on label |
 | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1883 | Kellerman | |
 | Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott | 1835 | Joseph C. Frank | Ohio, s.loc. |
 | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1877 | not recorded | unspecified |
 | Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812) | 1879 | Willard L. Maris | |
 | Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1879 | Porter, J.B. | |
 | Lobelia inflata L. | 1881 | Andriessen, H. | near Fredericktown, OH |
 | Ascochyta Lib., 1830 | 1883 | Kellerman | |
 | Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke | 1883 | W.A. Kellerman | |
 | Phyllosticta lappae Sacc. | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann | |
 | Phyllosticta persicae Sacc. | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann |
All 950 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bangs: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodwin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Purdy Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Purdy Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Corners | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Brandon | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| South Mount Vernon | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Milfordton | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Mount Liberty | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Mount Vernon | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Dalrymple Corners | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Hunt | 4.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1037613. 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.