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

Cannonsburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45881. The Survey maps it on the Rawson quadrangle.

Cannonsburg within Hancock County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cannonsburg, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Cannonsburg, surveyed 1907

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

15,761 words on this township

History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first school house was built at the center of the township, and a school has been kept there ever since. There are now ten school buildings in the township, all of them, I believe, of brick, and finished and furnished in modern style The schools in this township have the reputation of being amongst the very best in the county.

Passage source: History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

The town started out fairly, and soon quite a number of buildings were erected, but as the railroad, the locating of which had called the town into existence, was not built, and for years there seemed to be l)ut little hope that it would be, the town came to a halt, and was of but little significance in the history of the township. A few mechanics had invested all their means in property in the prospective town,^ and could not sell it again. The town perhaps could always boast of a small country store and grocery combined, but for years it was a desperate struggle to keep life in the place.

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 Union Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 593 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 593 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cannonsburg between 1886 and 1973: 586 Animalia, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, CL & LC Hubbs, Collector(s): David E. Ferguson 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
Bombus lucorum (Linnaeus, 1761)	1886	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus bohemicus Seidl, 1838	1887	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1763)	1895	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Arlington
Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1905	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)	1906	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus variabilis (Cresson, 1872)	1907	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)	1911	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus auricomus (Robertson, 1903)	1912	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863	1913	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus fraternus (Smith, 1854)	1913	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1914	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River

All 593 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Cordelia	1.1 miles	12
Mount Cory	2.5 miles	12
Rawson	3.0 miles	12
Jenera	3.2 miles	14
Hassan (historical)	4.9 miles	12
New Stark	6.1 miles	12
Benton Ridge	6.2 miles	9
Martinstown (historical)	7.1 miles	14

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 Cannonsburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133619	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 1054426. 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.

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