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

Edenville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Eden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44849. It stands on Indian Run. The Survey maps it on the Nevada quadrangle.

Edenville within Wyandot County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Edenville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Edenville, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

13,914 words on this township

The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Eden Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first road regularly laid out in the township extended through Sections 34 and 27, and was opened in 1839, though prior to this the Indian trails and " blazed tracks " were, no doubt, quite numerous and considerably used. The Oceola road from Indian Run to Rock Run was opened by the Wyandot Indians, under the supervision of Isaac Miller, who at this date resides in Antrim Township. Some of these earlier roads or " trails " led to the Indian resorts, one of which was the locality of the springs, which were supposed to be medicinal in their qualities, located in Section 22, and two others on the farms now owned by Henry and Samuel Aten on the Oceola State Road. On the farm now owned by Tilman Balliet, an Indian burying ground is located, and here from the healing fountains, they repaired to chant the death songs over their stricken dead. Orchards were planted, and among these, as well as in other places, they have left their records in the implements of war and the chase, stone hatchets, spear heads and arrow heads, and besides these the crude domestic utensils, such as the mortar and pestle by which they ground the corn that served to make their bread or thicken their skunk and 'possum broth. For the greater part of their supplies the earlier settlers of this township, as well as of other townships went to Sandusky City and Fremont, and up to date Eden Township cannot claim the honors of a grist mill. In 1849, the first saw mill was erected by Crawford & Lance, and seven mills are now in operation in the township - one owned by Samuel Bever at Nevada; one by Turney & Yohe, Edenville; one by Joseph Paulin, Little York; a fourth by John Kreechbaum on Section 6; a fifth by James Spangler, Eden Center; another by Marti en Brothers, Section 25, and the seventh by Conger & Co., at the Fish Fond, Section 15. The mercantile interests of Eden were somewhat thwarted by the establishment of a store in the village of Wyandot in an early day, and later by the sudden appearance and growth of Nevada (which, however, is partially situated in this township), after the construction of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad. There are at present, however, two stores in the township outside of the villages, one situated on Section 20, conducted by Conrad Haas; the other on Section 17, conducted by Daniel T. Warner. The first store was kept by William Jobs on Section 9. The first dwelling log cabin, 14x18, by Congress Miller.

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

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 Eden Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 228 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 228 specimens collected within 10 miles of Edenville between 1885 and 1975: 214 Animalia, 13 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Acker, G., Allen, J. M., Blyth & Katz 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
Hister abbreviatus Fabricius, 1775	1885	not recorded	Crane
Margarinotus faedatus (J.E.LeConte, 1845)	1885	not recorded	Crane
Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Bonser Thos.	Wyandot Co.
Phyllachora vulgata Theiss. & Syd.	1900	Thos. Bouser	Big Spring Prairie
Puccinia eatoniae Arthur	1901	Bouser Thomas?	Wyandot Co.
Puccinia fusca Wallr.	1901	Bouser Thomas	Wyandot Co.
Puccinia podophylli Schwein.	1901	Bowser Thomas	Wyandot Co.
Uncinula macrospora Peck	1901	T. A. Bonser
Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1915	Goodrich, Calvin	Upper Sandusky
Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1915	Goodrich, Calvin	Upper Sandusky
Cambarunio iris (I.Lea, 1829)	1915	Goodrich, Calvin	Upper Sandusky
Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1915	Goodrich, Calvin	Upper Sandusky

All 228 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Edenville: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
H and M Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kuenzli Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mccarthy Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wyandot County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edenville in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Edenville	$100	Wyandot County Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down on County Road 330 near County Road 81.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Nevada	1.5 miles	12
Douglass (historical)	3.3 miles	12
Seal	4.0 miles	11
Mononcue	5.8 miles	10
Little Sandusky	6.3 miles	12
Wyandot	6.5 miles	11
Upper Sandusky	6.5 miles	10
Smithville	6.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056269. 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.