BlockDouglas, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44276. The Survey maps it on the Rittman quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1901 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rittman quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Rittman quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Milton township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
A Reminiscence By Philip Fritz
"Adien my father removed to Milton township, in 1814, he had to cut out the road where I now live [written in 1878]. Bears, wolves, wildcats, porcupines, wild hogs, deer and turkey were plenty. We often shot the wild hogs, as they made good meat. Porcupines were numerous ; the dogs would attack them and we would pull out the quills with bullet-moulds.
In the county-history sources
1,517 words on this townshipHistory of Wayne County, Ohio, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Milton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
"Samuel and John Fritz, Isaac DeCourcey, John Huffman and myself went up the country to Chippewa lake to hunt, and took our provisions whji us. I was left in charge of the eatables, and the balance went to the'woodSg£ hunt. While I was watching the provisions eigh^ Indians approached and I was terribly frightened. .Th^_, ctcWnce commenced laying off thtg knivec, guns and iomaiicivvkj, and advancing to where I had a large fire buii one of them would speak in English, saying, 'White man foolish; makes bij fire and sits away off ; Indian makes little fire and sits up close.' They thei went to the edge of the lake and began jumping on the muskrat houses, anc just as fast as the inmates popped out they popped him over, and so they kept on until out of one of the largest mud-houses sprang a beaver, which was instantly killed, and then they whooped and danced and drank. Its hide was worth sixteen dollars. When our hunting party came in the Indians wanted to buy their dogs. An Indian squaw went into a marsh to pick cranberries. She had her papoose with her and. tying it to a board, set it down. Wdiile she was in the marsh a dog came along and killed it. She lamented and yelled fearfully. When we came here there were a good many Indians about here - they called themselves the Delawares, Shawnees and A^yandots. They had quite a town on the south side of Chippewa lake, probably thirty families. I used to go the settlement often, saw the little Indian boys roasting gammons of meat and gnaw at them; saw them shoot pieces of silver out of split sticks, with bows and arrows, and never miss. They captured a good deal of wild honey and carried it in deer skins turned inside out. They would cut down a tree, carve out the stump, crush their corn in it, and then put it in pots and boil it, and then i)ut in the meat. An Indian ne\'er uses salt. Within about ten rods of where river Styx - north branch of the Chippewa - empties into Rig Chi]i])ewa, an Indian was found dead in the drift, shot through the waist, and it seems about that time the Indians got scared and very suddenly disa])peared." - From Douglas' history. f>ublishc(i in 1878.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Ohio, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
10 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Douglas (historical) in 2002, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 13 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 25 June 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 25 April 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 24 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,745 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,745 specimens collected within 10 miles of Douglas (historical) between 1877 and 1975: 1,343 Animalia, 216 Plantae, 145 Fungi, 40 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807) | 1930 | B. Montgomery & J. Houser | 2 miles northeast of Wooster |
 | Aster ciliolatus Lindl. | 1877 | Thorne, B.H. | Station Farm, Wooster |
 | Chelidon Forster, 1817 | 1889 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA |
 | Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
| Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster | |
 | Certhia americana americana Bonaparte, 1838 | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
| Corthylio calendula calendula | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster | |
 | Cyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 1921 | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
All 1,745 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermanville | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Five Points | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Jackson | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Johnsons Corners | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Sterling | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Smithville | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Canaan | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Spruce Tree Village | 4.1 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067271. 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.