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

Deweyville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45858. The Survey maps it on the Hoytville quadrangle.

Deweyville within Hancock County

Then and now

1956 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Deweyville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Deweyville, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

11,412 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; History of Hancock County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County, Its Townships, Towns ... Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Biographies, History of the Northwest Territory, History of Ohio, Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Pleasant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The business of this place is rapidly on the increase. A number of good business houses have recently been erected, as well as many residences. There are already two well stocked dry goods stores, two hardware stores, tivo neat well filled drug stores, one clothing store, two grocery and provision stores, two meat markets, oihe furniture store, tioo harness sJiops, four blacksmith «hops, one jewelry store, one gunsmith shop, two wagon and carriage shops, two saw mills, 07ie steam flouring mill, tivo shoe shops, 07ie undei'taker, one livery stable, 07ie pump factory, two hotels,_^t*e physiciasn, one attorney, and one news paper, the "McComb Herald," by a Mr. Darke, and thi^ee churches, one Methodist Episcopal, one Presbyterian and one Disciples.

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.

There are a number of very tasty dwellings, many of them surrounded by beautiful grounds. Altogether the village has an air of thrift and I'apid growth, which is very encouraging to its people, and the beauty of its location, its healthfulness, and intelligent society, are sources of just pride to the inhabitants. Four hundred and twenty-three was the population in 1880.

CJounty, but served only two years. He died on his farm in this township. It has been told by several pioneers that Judge Price was a well-informed man, and stood high in the estimation of the best citizens.

Passage source: History of Hancock County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County, Its Townships, Towns ... Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Biographies, History of the Northwest Territory, History of Ohio, Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc, published 1886.

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 Pleasant Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 114 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 114 specimens collected within 10 miles of Deweyville between 1906 and 1975: 113 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by D.C. Eades, Daiber, F. C. (Frank C.), Daiber, F. C. (Frank C.) & Clemens, E. C. 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
Valsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.	1906	F. O. Grover	Near Black Swamp, Oberlin.
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ottawa Creek, at Benton Ridge, ~0.4 mi E of Benton Ridge, Blanchard township
Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ottawa Creek, at Benton Ridge, ~0.4 mi E of Benton Ridge, Blanchard township
Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ottawa Creek, at Benton Ridge, ~0.4 mi E of Benton Ridge, Blanchard township
Campostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
Erimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township

All 114 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deweyville in 1 storm report between 2026 and 2026: 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2026	Hail	Deweyville	-	Hail up to quarter-size about three-miles northeast of McComb.

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
McComb	2.2 miles	9
North Ridgeville (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Hancock	2.3 miles	11
Butlers Mill	3.1 miles	11
Shawtown	3.2 miles	9
Portage Center	4.9 miles	13
Lewisville (historical)	5.8 miles	9
Murphys	6.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064536. 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.

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.