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

Cascade, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45827. It stands on Blanchard River. The Survey maps it on the Continental quadrangle.

Cascade within Putnam County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cascade, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cascade, surveyed 1909

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

1,613 words on this township

History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Perry Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Franconia was the first town laid out in the township. It was laid out by Amos Kendall in 1837 and the first store was kept by Parlee Carlin. A double log cabin, which was featured by Howe as a "Home in the Wilderness," was erected by Sebastian Shroufe, and P. B. Holden later kept a tavern in the same building. While Franconia was a flourishing little center of trade for a number of years, it has long since disappeared and nothing now remains of what was once hoped would be a substantial town. Other towns in this township include Cloverdale (Drucilla), Dupont, Cascade and Huntstown.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

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 Perry Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 115 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 115 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cascade between 1893 and 1969: 115 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Blyth & Katz, Creamer, D. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Lampsilis ventricosa (Barnes, 1823)Lampsilis ventricosa (Barnes, 1823)1893not recordedBlanchard River
Specimen of Sympetrum internum Montgomery, 1943Sympetrum internum Montgomery, 19431956H. PricePalmer Township, Miller City tile pond
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893P. KirschSugar Creek, Cloverdale
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedCloverdale, Auglaize River
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus flavus, not of this specimenNoturus flavus Rafinesque, 18181893P. KirschAuglaize River, Cloverdale, Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Sugar Cr. Twp: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Sugar Creek Twp.: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pseudacris triseriata, not of this specimenPseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Ottawa Twp., Putnam Co., Ohio

All 115 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cloverdale0.8 miles12
Huntstown (historical)1.3 miles12
Franconia (historical)1.6 miles12
Dupont2.6 miles12
East Mandale2.8 miles12
Muntanna3.2 miles13
Dorninton3.8 miles11
Montana (historical)4.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075188. 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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