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

Belle Vernon, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tymochtee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44882. The Survey maps it on the Sycamore quadrangle.

Belle Vernon within Wyandot County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belle Vernon, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Belle Vernon, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

28,922 words on this township

The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Tymochtee Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Good substantial roads traverse the township in every direction, one of the chief of these is on the west side of the Sandusky, crossing the northern county boundary at McCutchenville; there it meets with a road from the southeast, crossing Belle Vernon. Another leading road enters Section 34 from the south, and passing north for about a mile and a half, it meets a road from the west crossing the Sandusky, when they turn abruptly to the northeast, crossing the township toward Mexico. The only railroad in the township, is the Ohio Central, which crosses the northeast corner, coming out near McCutchenville.

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

The first white settler was Henry Lish, who with his wife and three children settled on the southwest quarter of Section 17, about 1816-17, erecting the first dwelling, a log cabin, 18x20 feet. Other early settlers were Cyprion Stevens, Joseph Chaffee, Robert Gibson, Elisha Brayton, William Hodge, Linus Cutting, James Whitehead, Dr. Dunn, Joseph Stiggerwalt and Thomas Leeper. The last named came in 1821 from Ross County, Ohio, abou.t the same time that Samuel Harper located in Sycamore. Soon after came Peter Baum, William Combs, Levi Bunn, John Taylor and George Bogart, who settled in what is now Belle Vernon, John Morris, Alfred McCauley, and his brother Jehosaphat, Peter Hummon, Jonathan. Peter and Moses Kear, the latter a gunsmith. Henry Lish established in the earliest days of settlement a government ferry across the Tymochtee. Michael Brackley, who sat in both branches of the Legislature, was also a very early settler. Ira Aikens and Joseph Chaffee opened the first taverns. Robert Gibson came with his parents to this township in 1821, being then but two years of age. He was a native of Ross County, Ohio; his parents settled one and one-half miles west of Tymochtee Village. At that time very few whites were in the township, while Indians were numerous. Mr. Gibson grew up with the reputation of a Nimrod, and on one occasion he killed four deer, besides wild cats and turkeys. When twenty-three years of age he began herding cattle among the Indians. In 1844, he married Margaretta, daughter of John Beam, who settled near McCutchenville in 1829, and was the first white miller at the Indian Mill near Upper Sandusky.

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

John S. Wagner, a very early settler, was a native of Pickaway County, and settled near Mexico. Abraham Corfman was born in this township in 1830, and was son of Joseph and Susanna Corfman, of Pennsylvania. The father died November, 1855: his widow resides at Belle Vernon. Christopher Hufford came here in 1825, and is still living here, aged eighty-one; Trvin Walton, born in Ross County in 1828, was brought the same year to this township by his parents, Mathew and Catharine Walton, and still resides here. Daniel Walker, formerly a tailor, came here in 1833, and brought with him his son, Edward, who was born in Lancaster, May 24, 1833, and who is still a resident of Tymochtee. William Walton was here before 1838; his son Benjamin, born in December 4, 1838, in this township, still resides here; Nelson Wood, born in Tymochtee, May

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

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 Tymochtee Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 264 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 264 specimens collected within 10 miles of Belle Vernon between 1885 and 1975: 232 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., Blyth & Katz, Blyth, D. (David) & Katz, D. (David) 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
Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 1768	1902	Bonser, T.	Carey
Puccinia caricina DC.	1902	T. Bonser
Hister abbreviatus Fabricius, 1775	1885	not recorded	Crane
Margarinotus faedatus (J.E.LeConte, 1845)	1885	not recorded	Crane
Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1893	United States Fish Commission	McCutchenville, Sandusky River
Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1893	not recorded	Sandusky River, Mccutchenville, Ohio
Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)	1893	not recorded	Sandusky River, Mccutchenville, Ohio
Campylium stellatum (Hedw.) Lange & C.E.O.Jensen	1899	W. A. Kellerman
Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Bonser Thos.	Wyandot Co.
Phyllachora vulgata Theiss. & Syd.	1900	Thos. Bouser	Big Spring Prairie
Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822	1901	Thos A. Bonser	Carey, S. of
Lepidium campestre (L.) W.T.Aiton	1901	Bonser, T.A.	Carey

All 264 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Belle Vernon: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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
Amert Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
H and M Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kirby and Sons, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kuenzli Quarries Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wyandot County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belle Vernon in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2018	Flood	Belle Vernon	-	At 100 PM EST, emergency management reported an ice jam on the Sandusky River near the Seneca and Wyandot county line just west of Sycamore. The jam estimated around a mile long produced minor flooding of County Highway 37 near County Highway 29. Backwater caused portions of the Tymochtee Creek and Sycamore Creeks to rise but not flood. A log jam was contributing to the development of the ice jam.

Every storm recorded in Wyandot 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
Sycamore	2.3 miles	11
Smithville	2.6 miles	11
Deunquat	3.7 miles	11
Tymochtee	3.9 miles	10
Mexico	4.2 miles	11
Seal	4.4 miles	11
McCutchenville	5.4 miles	10
Douglass (historical)	7.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064406. 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.

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.