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

Fitchville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fitchville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44851. It stands on Southwest Branch Vermilion River. The Survey maps it on the New London quadrangle.

Fitchville within Huron County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fitchville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Fitchville, surveyed 1908

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

1,365 words on this township

History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909 names this settlement in its chapter on Fitchville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The people of Fitchville sought early to establish in their midst the institutions of religion and education to which they had been accustomed to in their eastern homes. There is, perhaps, not another example in the county of such an early establishment of a church after settlement, The pioneers entered the wilderness in I817, and in the summer of 1819 the first church was organized.

Passage source: History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909.

In early times, Hartland, Fitchville and Greenwich, were grouped together, or attached for civil and judicial purposes. Hartland was detached about 1820, and connected with Clarksfield. Fitchville was detached, in 1828, from Greenwich and organized as a separate township.

Passage source: History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909.

The principal cemetery of Fitchville, which occupies the summit and slope of a gently rising hill, upon the Norwalk road, in the north part of Clinton incorporation, was laid out about 1826, or the following year. Alvah Palmer, who died in 1827, was the first person buried there, and Louisa Green the second.

Passage source: History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909.

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 Fitchville Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 714 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 714 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fitchville between 1888 and 1975: 474 Plantae, 164 Animalia, 75 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Baumgartner, L., C. E. Jennings 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
Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle	1895	Dr. W.A. Kellerman	Reservoir Park; 41.024222 -82.515171
Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)	1898	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
Cephalanthus occidentalis L.	1888	Shafer, J.A.	W of Brighton near Cleveland
Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1893	not recorded	Clarksfield, Vermillion River
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1893	not recorded	Vermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	A. Woolman	Vermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	A. Woolman	Vermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1893	not recorded	Vermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
Aecidium hibisciatum (Schwein.) Sacc.	1895	W. A. Kellerman	Reservoir Park
Grus canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Mills, W. C.	Huron, Ohio, USA
Solidago flexicaulis L.	1897	Jennings, O.E.	near Olena
Acalypha rhomboidea Raf.	1898	Jennings, O.E.	near Olena

All 714 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fitchville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Recorded
Acme Paving and Sealing Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Costein Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Costein Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fitchville in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2009	Flash Flood	Fitchville	$400,000	Training thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall formed over southeastern Huron County during the afternoon of the 26th. Rainfall of 4 to 5 inches fell between Greenwich, Fitchville, and New London between approximately 3pm and 5:30pm local time. A rain gage in Fitchville measured 5.1 inches during the event. Several roads in the area were flooded, including SR 13 at the Southwest Branch Vermilion River, SR 162 between New London and Fitchville, and US 250 near Exchange Road southeast of Fitchville. Many basements in the area were flooded for the first time.
November 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Fitchville	$125,000	A weak tornado touched down west of Fitchville near the intersection of Cresent and Rome Greenwich Roads. A mobile home on the south side of Crescent Road was mostly destroyed. The south side of the mobile remained anchored in place while debris from the destroyed northern half of the home was found scattered to the north and south. From the mobile the tornado moved east northeast crossing U.S. Route 250 and only intermittently making contact with the ground. The tornado settled back on the ground as it approached Palmer Road. Several trees were snapped or uprooted in that area. A clear tornado track then continued off to the northeast through several corn fields with evidence of rotation visible. The tornado then damaged a small barn as it crossed Exchange Road. Roofing material from the barn was found scattered on both sides of the road. The tornado eventually lifted just west of the intersection of Fayette and Greenwich East Roads. This tornado had a damage track about three and a quarter miles in length and up to a 100 yards in width.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Fitchville	$10,000	Very heavy rainfall of up to 3 inches fell in less than one hour across southwestern Huron County. 2.8 inches of rain was measured 3 miles northwest of New London. As a result of the intense rainfall, four roads were flooded and closed in Fitchville, including a portion of US 250 / SR 162.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Fitchville	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fitchville	-	Downed power poles and lines along Greenwhich Milan Town Line Road, near Fitchville.
January 2019	Hail	Fitchville	-	Hail up to the size of pennies covered the ground about 3 miles northwest of New London.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Fitchville	-	There were multiple trees blown down across the county.
August 2004	Hail	Fitchville	-	Penny size hail was observed.
April 1998	Flash Flood	Fitchville	-	State Route 250 was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Greenwich	4.7 miles	13
New London	4.7 miles	12
Woodlyn Acres	4.9 miles	12
Olena	5.0 miles	12
Hartland	5.6 miles	10
North Fairfield	6.6 miles	13
Branchwood Estates	6.6 miles	13
Hanville Corners	6.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064652. 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.