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Crawford, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Crawford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43316. It stands on Lick Run. The Survey maps it on the McCutchenville quadrangle.

Crawford within Wyandot 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 Crawford, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Crawford, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

1,621 words on this township

Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913 names this settlement in its chapter on Crawford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Crawford township is perhaps more replete with historic incidents than any other township in Wvyandot county, for it was here that the lamented Colonel Crawford suffered death by the Indians by being burnt at the stake, in 1782, and here a monument has since been erected to his memory. And it was in the wilds of this locality that the seven-year-old child of Mathew Brayton was captured by the Indians and never found.

Passage source: Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913.

Crawford township was organized in the county of Crawford in 1825, and became a part of Wyandot county in 1845. It is one of the northern tiers of townships of the county, and is bounded on the north by Seneca county, on the east by Tymochtee township, on the south by Salem township and on the west by Ridge township.

Passage source: Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913.

The territory comprised in this township was once one of the most famous of the Indian sporting grounds, being the seat of an extensive village of Delaware Indians, who, under command of Captain Pipe, the notorious Delaware chief, executed Col. William Crawford. The exact spot where the burning took place is not now positively known.

Passage source: Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913.

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 Crawford Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 247 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 247 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crawford between 1885 and 1975: 216 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., Blyth & Katz, Blyth, D. (David) & Katz, D. (David) 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 Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 1768Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 17681902Bonser, T.Carey
Specimen of Puccinia caricina DC.Puccinia caricina DC.1902T. Bonser
A photograph of the species Hister abbreviatus, not of this specimenHister abbreviatus Fabricius, 17751885not recordedCrane
A photograph of the species Margarinotus faedatus, not of this specimenMargarinotus faedatus (J.E.LeConte, 1845)1885not recordedCrane
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893United States Fish CommissionMcCutchenville, Sandusky River
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1893not recordedSandusky River, Mccutchenville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1893not recordedSandusky River, Mccutchenville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Campylium stellatum, not of this specimenCampylium stellatum (Hedw.) Lange & C.E.O.Jensen1899W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Phyllachora graminis, not of this specimenPhyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel1900Bonser Thos.Wyandot Co.
Phyllachora vulgata Theiss. & Syd.1900Thos. BouserBig Spring Prairie
A photograph of the species Corvus brachyrhynchos, not of this specimenCorvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221901Thos A. BonserCarey, S. of
A photograph of the species Lepidium campestre, not of this specimenLepidium campestre (L.) W.T.Aiton1901Bonser, T.A.Carey

All 247 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crawford: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carey Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Wyandot Dolomite, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wyandot County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawford in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCrawford$10,000Wyandot County Sheriff Dispatch and a social media post reported several trees down in the Carey area in northwestern Wyandot County.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCrawford-Several trees, about one to two feet in diameter, were snapped at their bases about two-miles southeast of Carey.

Every storm recorded in Wyandot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lovell2.1 miles10
Carey3.1 miles11
Tymochtee4.3 miles10
Smithville6.1 miles11
McCutchenville6.6 miles10
Upper Sandusky7.2 miles10
Belle Vernon7.4 miles11
Mononcue7.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061004. 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.