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

Bloomingville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oxford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44870. The Survey maps it on the Kimball quadrangle.

Bloomingville within Erie County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bloomingville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Bloomingville, surveyed 1904

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

3,113 words on this township

A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Oxford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The township was first colonized in the month of February, 1810, by six families from Conneaut, Erie County, Pennsylvania. These early settlers were: Jonathan Sprague, an old man who had served in the army of the Revolution as lieutenant. He built a cabin on the east bank of Pipe Creek, a quarter of a mile from Bloomingville. His son's family and three families of Dunhams settled between him and the present Bloomingville, and Linas Ensign settled a mile southwest of Bloomingville, on the farm afterward occupied by John Paxton. In the month of July of the same year Thomas James and James Forsyth moved into the township. During that fall three others, Nathan, Standish and Wood, came, and were followed the next year by Thomas Hamilton, Doctor Hastings, John Dillingham, and Samuel McGill.

Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.

The survey of the township was made by Jabez Wright and Almon Ruggles, assisted by Benjamin Drake as chain bearer, in 1810, and during that year many people moved in; but the following year the entire township was affected by the panic that followed Hull's surrender, and many of the pioneers fled to older settlements for safety. The greater part of those who fled went to Mansfield, conveying their household goods and families on horseback and in wagons. Those who remained behind proceeded at once to build a blockhouse in Bloomingville, and later a second one was built near it-and both enclosed by a stockade. After this, until the close of the war there were few additions to the settlement in Oxford. The Register of July 2, 1879, contains reminiscences by W. D. Gurley stating his arrival on September, 1811, at a small log cabin where Bloomingville now stands. It was then an almost unbroken forest. The next Sunday he heard his father preach the first sermon on the firelands in the little log schoolhouse, and saw him form a little class of eight or ten members. Early in the spring his father built the house a half mile east of Bloomingville and resided there till Hull surrendered to the English in 1812. He then left and did not return till 1818 when he settled in Perkins.

Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.

Early troubles came to the settlers in many forms, and perhaps none was more distressing than the milk sickness that affected the cattle. It came simultaneously with the attempt to have a bank, and the cause of it was a mystery. There are still places in our country where this is common, and the United States Government offered a generous reward of many thousand dollars to whoever should discover the secret cause of its prevalence. In Oxford Township they believed it was the result of the animals drinking from springs of mineral water, but this was disproved by the fact that a flock of sheep belonging to Thomas James, of Bloomingville, were pastured in a field where there was no stream and yet a number of the flock were affected by it. Its effects on animals was known as ''trembles,'' and it was quite customary to see a fat calf, after sucking, walk a short distance, then begin to tremble, and in a little while fall down and die. The superstitious believed in witchcraft. Many people died from this poison, and their remains are buried at the forks of the roads a short distance east of Bloomingville, with no monument to tell the story of their lives in the new country to which they had come full of hope. We understand that the milk sickness is now believed to be caused by the cattle eating a certain weed.

Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.

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 Oxford Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bloomingville between 2002 and 2002, burning about 1 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	2
Debris and open burning	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
6 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,516 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,516 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bloomingville between 1860 and 1975: 1,366 Animalia, 898 Plantae, 219 Fungi, 26 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Dowdy, A. F. Satterthwait, A. Lewis 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
Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1898	United States Fish Commission	Sandusky Bay
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1898	United States Fish Commission & W. Kendall	Sandusky Bay near mouth of Sandusky River
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1899	F.L. Scribner
Perca Linnaeus, 1758	1860	Smithsonian Institution	Sandusky
Vermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)	1868	No Person (Birds)	Taylor
Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)	1881	D. S. Young
Apios tuberosa Moench	1885	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link	1885	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Artemisia caudata Michx.	1886	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Graminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous	1886	William Trelease; A. Commons	Madison
Panicum virgatum L.	1886	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758	1886	Smithsonian Institution

All 2,516 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 Bloomingville: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Febus Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sandusky Crushed Stone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sandusky Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Soldiers Home Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wagner Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Erie 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
Prout (historical)	1.5 miles	12
Sand Hill	1.6 miles	18
Weyers	2.5 miles	18
Parkertown	3.3 miles	18
Wilmer	3.3 miles	16
Kimball	3.4 miles	12
Southgate Acres	4.1 miles	16
Columbus Park	4.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064456. 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.