Broken Sword, Ohio

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.

1906 1986

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.

• 1906 USGS Sycamore quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Lykens quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Lykens quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Lykens township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Lykens Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 185 specimens collected within 10 miles of Broken Sword between 1842 and 1973: 172 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beal, L. E., Benjamin, J. R., Chase, H. (Hazel) 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
	Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1842	William S. Sullivant
	Lestes unguiculatus Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township, ditch
	Tramea lacerata Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township
	Cirriphyllum piliferum (Hedw.) Grout	1842	W. S. Sullivant
	Drepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.	1842	W. S. Sullivant
	Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1844	not recorded
	Gymnoconia interstitialis (Schltdl.) Lagerh.	1906	Hieber Christina	Bucyrus
	Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	MB Trautman	Sandusky River, NE corner of Bucyrus Twp
	Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1930	E. Wichliff	Bucyrus Fish Hatchery
	Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1931	Conant, R. (Roger)	W. of Bucyrus, Crawford Co., Ohio
	Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins	1932	Leslie L Pontius; Floyd Bartley	Benton
	Eurycea longicauda (Green, 1818)	1932	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	West Fork, Crawford Co., Ohio

All 185 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Broken Sword: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.

Every working recorded in Crawford County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060893. 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.