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Bostwick, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Thompson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44024. The Survey maps it on the Thompson quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 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.
- 1904 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Thompson quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Thompson quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Thompson quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Thompson quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Thompson quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Thompson township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Old Folks Concert
At the conclusion of the reading, Mr. Bronson exhibited a bassoon, an instrument resembling a double-barreled shot gun, without the stock, used in military bands and orchestras one hundred years ago. This one is supposed to be the first one made in this country, and, in its early days, "went to meeting," and accompanied the hautboys and clarionets, carrying the bass.
In the county-history sources
64,584 words on this townshipPioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Thompson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The above are all the papers ever published in this county, except the Western Reserve Times , afterwards the Chardon Times , a well-printed and very readable eight-column folio, established in August, 1872, by the Times Printing company (Messrs. H. F. Canfield, E. R. Eggleston, and N. H. Bostwick), and the Geauga Leader, noticed elsewhere, a five-column quarto, also independent, established at Burton, December 18, 1874, by Mr. J. B. Coffin, and still published by him, being issued every Friday. The Times, at the close of its first year, was sold to W. C. Chambers & Son, of the Painesville Journal, and subsequently discontinued.
Passage source: Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880.
In 1801, Elisha Miller, jr., came from Farmington, Connecticut, in company with Dr. O. K. Hawley, and Jesse Hawley, as far as Austinburg, Ashtabula county, on horseback, with the intention of coming to Thompson, as his father owned one thousand acres of land, situated about equally in lots one and twenty-seven, and two hundred acres in lot thirty-seven.* Accordingly, he went to lot one and chopped and girdled some timber; boarding with Dr. Palmer. They had some little misunderstanding about the matter, and, after a few months, Miller went back to Austinburg. His horse, which had been turned into the woods, with others, could not be readily found, and so he started back to Connecticut on foot. His horse was subsequently found and returned. The above lands were afterwards, by the death of the senior Miller, conveyed to others, and, as early as 1818, we find Daniel Miller, a brother, in the settlement of the estate, in possession of what was on lot twenty-seven, and living near where the Cottam family now live. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1818. He resided here until 1825. In 1819, we find him in a district school, in the Bartlett settlement. He subsequently preached. He went from here to Bristol and was afterward prominent in the establishment of the excellent and prominent school at Farmington, Ohio. He held the first coroner's inquest in this township, at the house of Mark Barnes, over the body of one Benjamin Trask, who was found dead near the foot of Stony Ridge, west from Bostwick's corners. But who composed the jury, we are unable to learn. This was in the spring of 1819.
Passage source: Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880.
The first mail-route was established about 1823, and extended from Unionville, Lake county, passing southeast of Madison, through Thompson, Montville, Huntsburg, and Batavia, since Middlefield. A man was hired to carry it on horseback, and had a fearful time, an account of which is chronicled from Montville. The first postmaster was George Emery, M. D. Joseph Smith, D. W. Mead, John H. Sumner, J. S. Lucas, S. Bostwick, F. S. Turner, and in 1876, F. M. Leonard holds the office, having held it, except one year by Turner, since the commencement of Grant's administration.
Passage source: Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880.
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 Thompson Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bostwick between 2020 and 2020, 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15714 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 339 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 339 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bostwick between 1885 and 1975: 287 Animalia, 48 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Clewell, A. N. Rood, A.E. Daugherty 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson | 1885 | Werner, Wm. C. | Thompson |
 | Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw. | 1897 | Jesse M. Greenman | Little Mountain |
 | Marchantia polymorpha L. | 1897 | Jesse M. Greenman | Little Mountain |
 | Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh. | 1885 | W. C. Werner | Thompson |
 | Asplenium trichomanes L. | 1887 | Leonard, F.E. | Little Mountain. |
 | Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828) | 1897 | Ray Densmore | Leroy |
 | Butorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1897 | Ray Densmore | Leroy, Grand River, swamp |
 | Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1897 | Ray Densmore | Leroy |
 | Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1898 | E.A. Doolittle | Concord Twnsp, near small stream |
 | Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818) | 1898 | for Ray Densmore | Concord |
 | Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1899 | E. A. Doolittle | Leroy |
 | Galba Schrank, 1803 | 1908 | Collector(s): unknown | Grand River, south of Painesville |
All 339 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 Bostwick: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R.W. Sidley Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| R.W. Sidley Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Thompson | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Thompson | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Montville | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Chardon | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Hambden | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Terrace Glenn Estates | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Calm (historical) | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| West Bass Lake | 5.9 miles | 15 |
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 Bostwick | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22676648 | 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 1062403. 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.