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

East Crestline, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sandusky Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44827. The Survey maps it on the Crestline quadrangle.

East Crestline within Richland County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

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 East Crestline, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of East Crestline, surveyed 1915

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

3,533 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 Sandusky Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Crawford County), and what is now left of it. It remained in that shape until March 9, 1845, when it was divided, and the north half called Vernon, leaving Sandusky six miles square, in which shape it should have been allowed to remain ; but when the rage for county seats grew to an uncontrollable extent, and Crawford County was formed, February 3, 1845, four tiers of sections from the west side of this township were cut off and handed over to Crawford, leaving a strip two miles wide remaining of Sandusky'. In their cutting and slashing to get the new count}', two sections immediately south of Sandusky were left unprovided for, and these were consequently attached to the southern end of it, making the township seven miles long from north to south, and two miles wide, in which condition it has ever since remained. The only town in it is East Crestline. It has three railroads, the Atlantic & Great Western passing through near its center, and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago, and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis, through the northern part. The land is generally gently rolling, all tillable, and very fertile. It was once densely wooded with all species of hard Avood, but now contains beautiful and well cultivated farms. There are no streams of size within its limits, though Clear Fork near its sources passes through the southern portion, and the headwaters of the Sandusky River, through the northern part. There is not sufficient water-power in these for milling purposes, consequently there were no water-mills in the township in an early day; the settlers going to Bellville for their gi'inding. Later, two horsemills were erected, one by ]McQuade, in the southern part, and one by Snyder further north. Hominy lilocks were in general use before this.

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.

said to have been the first teacher. He taught a " subscription " school of about a dozen scholars. He was an ignorant German, and did little good. Russell's schoolhouse, south of the present village of Crestline, was one of the earliest, if not the earliest, in the township.

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 Sandusky Township.

Fires near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of East Crestline between 2019 and 2019, burning about 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
27 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15304
13 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15306
13 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15305
13 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15307

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 114 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 114 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Crestline between 1835 and 1975: 71 Animalia, 22 Fungi, 21 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Berra, T. (Tim), Chase, H. (Hazel), Colby, J. 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
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1892	Edward Wilkinson	Alta
Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton	1897	W. A. Kellerman
Ustilago reiliana J.G.Kühn	1897	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Erigeron bellidifolius Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson,E. 5229	[USA, Ohio] Mansfield, Ohio.
Asplenium platyneuron (L.) Oakes	1839	J. Wolle	Bethlehem.
Athyrium thelypterioides (Michaux) Desvaux	1840	J. Wolle	Bethlehem.
Anemonella thalictroides (L.) Spach	1892	E. Wilkinson	Richland County
Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen	1892	Wilkinson, E.	Richland County
Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs	1892	E. Wilkinson
Carex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.	1892	E. Wilkinson
Juglans nigra L.	1892	E. Wilkinson
Lysimachia nummularia L.	1892	E. Wilkinson	Richland

All 114 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Riblet (historical)	2.2 miles	13
Five Corners	3.5 miles	13
Bethlehem	3.6 miles	13
Vernon Junction	4.7 miles	13
Richland (historical)	5.0 miles	13
Millsboro	5.0 miles	13
Maybee	5.2 miles	14
Toledo Junction	5.7 miles	14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122597144

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062459. 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.