BlockBoston, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43830. It lies near Black Hand Rock. The Survey maps it on the Toboso quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1966The same ground, surveyed 56 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
5 surveys from 11 printed 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.
- 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Toboso quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
8,731 words on this townshipHistory of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Hanover Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Daniel Thompson, the largest land proprietor in the township, came in 1804. He owned four thousand acres, and built his cabin near the road leading from Boston to Toboso. He seems to have been unfitted for a frontiersman ; his large estate was soon frittered away in small tracts, for labor, stock, or anything which suited his fancy, and he soon left the county.
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
There are three villages within the limits of this township - Boston (not the Hub) Hanover and Toboso. The first named, and of the least in size and importance, was first started It was about 1832 that John Hoyt put up a little shanty, and opened a grocery. He did a thriving business, and soon other buildings were erected, and the place promised to become an important point ; but the railroads changed the course of trade, and the
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
William Wells, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, was the original owner of the quarter township upon | which Hanover is situated. He divided this land (four thousand acres) among his relatives, among whom were Chester Wells and John Hollister; the latter received twelve hundred acres, and upon it laid out the town November 26 and 27, 1849.
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.
Fires near this place
22 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Boston between 2011 and 2020, burning about 58 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9045 |
| 16 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1842 |
| 5 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1841 |
| 23 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12545 |
| 17 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15210 |
| 15 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 414 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 414 specimens collected within 10 miles of Boston between 1893 and 1975: 363 Animalia, 37 Fungi, 14 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt. | 1893 | Jones, H.L. | Toboso |
 | Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd. | 1922 | E. B. | Newark |
 | Cladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr. | 1894 | Bogue, E.E. | Black Hand |
 | Lysimachia quadriflora Sims | 1894 | Moseley, E.L. | Licking Gorge |
 | Smilax herbacea L. | 1894 | Moseley, E.L. | Licking Gorge |
 | Perlesta ephelida Grubbs & DeWalt, 2012 | 1899 | not recorded | Newark |
 | Perlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839) | 1899 | not recorded | Newark |
 | Ceresa bubalus Fabricius | 1913 | Smith, F. H. | Newark, Licking Co., OH |
 | Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856) | 1920 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Licking River, at Claylick, ~2.3 mi SW of Hanover, Madison township |
 | Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818) | 1920 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | along Rocky Fork, Eden Twp., Licking Co., Ohio |
 | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1926 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.) | Flint Ridge, Licking Co., Ohio |
 | Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807) | 1929 | Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.) | Flint Ridge Park, Hopewell Twp., Licking Co., Ohio |
All 414 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Boston: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.
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.
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 Boston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133574 | The 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 1062657. 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.