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

Five Corners, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44903. It stands on Ralston Knob. The Survey maps it on the Crestline quadrangle.

Five Corners 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 Five Corners, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Five Corners, 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

15,578 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 Springfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Agriculturally considered, the land is generally excellent, the timber presenting the usual variety in Ohio - beach, hard (sugar) and soft maple, many varieties of ash and oak, and nearly all varieties of hard wood. Such timber speaks well for the quality of the land. The black walnut is already rapidly disappearing here, as well as all over the State, under the pressure of continual demand. The land produces the usual variety of cereals produced in the Northern States.

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.

The first Sabbath school was started in 1820, by Robert Finnev. It was held for several 3'ears in the private dwelling of John Chambers. Some of its first members were John and Susan Chambers. John and James Finney, Mathew Curran and James Larimer. Of these, John and James Finne}' and Susan Chambers are still living. They were Presbyterians and Associates. Their first meetings and public gatherings of all kinds were held at private houses, but, in 1 822, a log church was built, one mile north of Ontario, at what is called the Five Corners, by the Presbyterians. Jesse Edgerton was the active spirit in founding this church. He came from Harrison County, Ohio, and had five sons - John, Jessie, Levi, Thomas and Isaac. The first man who preached in this church was Rev. Mr. Lee, father of an honored citizen of Mansfield, John A. Lee. About the same time, the Methodists built a log church, three-fourths of a mile south of Millsborough, which was called Taylor's Meeting House. »

Hiram Cook came to this township in 1820, from a place called Ontario, in Orange County, N. Y. He bought a farm a few miles south of the present village of Ontario, where he lived several 3-ears, and having purchased the land on which Ontario now stands, laid out that place in a dense woods. It was on the trail leading from Mansfield to Bucyrus, by way of Gallon. This trail was then only wide enough for the passage of horses and footmen. It is on the southwest quarter of Section 21. He had it surveyed by John Stewart, and induced George Hoover to build the first cabin beside the trail. Hoover started a blacksmith-shop, and also kept a few groceries for sale in his cabin. When the timber was cleared awaj^ a little. Cook built two frame houses - one south of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, to be used as a dwelling, the other on the north side of the railroad, on the trail, for a hotel. He kept this hotel some years himself until it burned down, when it was rebuilt and occupied b}- other parties at difierent times, for the same purpose. As the town gTcw, the church organizations in the country began to abandon their deca^-ed churches and build others in town. The first erected was the Methodist Episcopal, in 1839. This organization originated at the Bigelow Chapel, and afterward worshiped at the Taylor meeting-house, both before mentioned in this chapter. The present minister is James H. Johnson, and the membership aliout eighty. The Sunday school is in a flourishing condition.

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 Springfield Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Five Corners between 2002 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
Smoking	2

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
4 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 February 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
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 646 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 646 specimens collected within 10 miles of Five Corners between 1835 and 1975: 490 Plantae, 127 Animalia, 29 Fungi. 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
Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl	1895	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield.
Alisma subcordatum Raf.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Carex stricta Lam.	1835	Herb. of E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
Erigeron bellidifolius Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson,E. 5229	[USA, Ohio] Mansfield, Ohio.
Penthorum sedoides L.	1835	E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
Verbascum thapsus L.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Achillea millefolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Angelica atropurpurea L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield

All 646 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
Maybee	1.6 miles	14
Millsboro	2.2 miles	13
Richland (historical)	2.4 miles	13
Riblet (historical)	2.8 miles	13
Toledo Junction	3.0 miles	14
Stewart (historical)	3.3 miles	14
East Crestline	3.5 miles	13
Ontario	3.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062474. 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.

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