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

Coulter, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44864. It stands on Rocky Fork. The Survey maps it on the Perrysville quadrangle.

Coulter within Richland County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Coulter, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Coulter, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

16,273 words on this township

History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Of the settlers above named, a few came in 1809, with David Hill ; others followed in 181U and 1811, and all of them were here by 1818. Adam Wolfe came in 1816, and William Mc- Danel in 1819. both settling on Section 26. The majorit}' settled along the Rocky Fork and Switzer's Run. These, aud perhaps others whose names are not recorded, w^ere the men who laid the foundation upon which rests the prosperity and happiness of the people of ^lonroe. They came mostlj' from Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. A few were from Virginia. They were a hard}' people, inured to hardships and dangers before they came here, and were men of sterling integrity and worth, and of strong convictions. In religious belief, they were generally Lutherans. It is somewhat remarkable that, of the five churches in the township, four are Lutheran. As in other parts of the country, wherever a few settled near each other, the}' organized a school and a religious society in their cabins.

Passage source: History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., 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 Monroe Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Coulter between 2007 and 2019, burning about 4 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	4
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1122
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15167
5 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13546
19 January 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 142 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 142 specimens collected within 10 miles of Coulter between 1879 and 1972: 120 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M.H., Aknown, C F WALKER 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
Adiantum pedatum L.	1895	Wilkinson, E.H.	Mansfield.
Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl	1895	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield.
Osmunda claytoniana L.	1896	Wilkerson, E.	Common in low grounds.
Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.
Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	Porter, J.B.
Rallus limicola Vieillot, 1819	1881	A.M.H.
Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1882	not recorded
Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray	1886	Edward Wilkinson	Ohio, Mansfield, in rocky woods
Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott	1886	Edward Wilkinson	Ohio, Mansfield, in rocky shades
Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.	1901	Edward Wilkinson	Ohio, Mansfield, in low woods
Valsa Fr.	1913	Stevens N. E.	Windsor

All 142 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Coulter: 1 plant, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lucas Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lucas Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Weber Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

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
Melco	0.9 miles	13
Pinhook	1.9 miles	13
Culler Mill	2.5 miles	13
Richland Cottage Area	3.2 miles	13
Saint Johns (historical)	3.2 miles	13
Lucas	4.0 miles	13
West Shore Cottage Area	4.2 miles	13
Crimson	4.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062716. 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.