BlockBriceton, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paulding Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45879. The Survey maps it on the Payne quadrangle.
Then and now
1914 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1914 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1914 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Payne quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
16,022 words on this townshipHistorical Atlas of Paulding County Ohio, published 1892 names this settlement in its chapter on Paulding Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
A. R. Bruner located in this county in 1883 and held the offices of township assessor and school director. He was born in Sandusky county, Ohio, January 16, 1852, the son of Martise and Catherine Bruner, both of German parentage. When but two years of age our subject was left an orphan; his father met his death in a railroad accident on the Lake Shore road and his mother died some time after of typhus fever. Mr. Bruner was cared for by his grandmother until he was nine years of age, at which time he was compelled to work for himself. He has been engaged in farming since arriving at manhood's estate and has been successful in his calling. He was married to Mary Wierman, of Sandusky county, on March 1872. Mrs. Bruner was born July 28, 1855, and by her marriage became the mother of William I., Cora M., Noah, Ella S. and Amos R. At present Mr. Bruner and son, William I., are clerking in Briceton for R. L. Magee, one of the leading young men of the county.
Passage source: Historical Atlas of Paulding County Ohio, published 1892.
November, 1859, and settled at Wawaka. Here he resided until August, 1882, when he came to Briceton under contract with McGee & Boyne to cut 3,000,000 feet of lumber. He worked for this firm until 1889, when he built his present mill, which has proved a successful venture. Mr. Dodge is an evangelist and preaches to the people on a regular cireuit. He joined the Baptist church when he was a youth of nineteen years and began preaching in 1867. He is an ordained minister of the Freewill Baptist church. Mr. Dodge was married on March 12, 1852, to Miss Delissa Richmond, a teacher of prominence in the Ashtabula schools. Fern L., Ladora (deceased), Della and Olive B., are the offspring of this union. Mrs. Dodge died in 1879, aged forty-seven years. She was a devout member of the Christian church, and a lady widely and favorably known. Mr. Dodge again married, taking as his wife on April 12, 1882, Miss Jennie M. Kridler, of Ottawa county. They enjoy high social rank in the community where they reside.
Passage source: Historical Atlas of Paulding County Ohio, published 1892.
J. H. Hollihan, justice of the peace, was born in Champaign county, Ill., on the 29th day of August, 1858, the son of John and Louisa A. (Paulus) Hollihan, natives respectively of Ireland and Ohio. John Hollihan, the father of our subject, was a boy twelve years of age when he began life for himself on a steamer between America and England. He made several trips on this boat, and finally located in Ohio. Later he went to Illinois, and here married Miss Paulus. He followed the calling of the farmer, and in 1865 settled in Darke county, where his death occurred in 1880, at the age of fifty-eight years. Mrs. Hollihan makes her home with her son, John, in Jefferson county, Ind. Our subject's early life was spent on the farm, where he acquired his education. When he was twenty-two years of age he commenced learning the carpenter's trade, and has since followed the same. In 1888 he removed to Briceton, and in this town he has done contract work with good success. He is an expert in his calling, and is kept busy. Politically, Mr. Hollihan is a democrat, and as such was elected justice of the peace in the spring of 1890. He was married, in 1881, on the 29th of August, to Miss Delilah
Passage source: Historical Atlas of Paulding County Ohio, published 1892.
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 Paulding Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,133 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,133 specimens collected within 10 miles of Briceton between 1909 and 1973: 1,133 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., C L CLARK FROM HOMER PRICE, CLARENCE CLARK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Epitheca cynosura (Say, 1840) | 1943 | H. Price | Paulding Township, Baily gravel pit |
 | Gomphus graslinellus Walsh, 1862 | 1943 | H. Price | Klinger Gravel Pit, Jackson Township |
 | Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1909 | Collector(s): Harold H. Bailey | Payne |
 | Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1910 | Price, H. (Homer) | Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1912 | Price, H. (Homer) | Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Geothlypis trichas (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1915 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Passerherbulus henslowii (Audubon, 1829) | 1915 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1915 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808 | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne within corporation, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Bubo virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
All 1,133 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 Briceton: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haviland Clay Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Haviland Clay Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Briceton in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Hail | Briceton | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worstville | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Latty | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Dague | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Arena (historical) | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Follmer (historical) | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Paulding | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Tipton | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Broughton | 5.1 miles | 12 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122557485 | 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 1038294. 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.