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

Hancock, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45858. It stands on West Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hoytville quadrangle.

Hancock within Hancock County

Then and now

1956 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hancock, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Hancock, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

11,412 words on this township

History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Pleasant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This township lies in the northwest corner of the county, and is bounded on the north by Wood County, on the east by Portage township, on the south by Blanchard township and on the west by Putnam County. It derives its name no doubt from its pleasant location and scenery, and is an original township oi thirty-six section^,.

Passage source: History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

John Kalb, another of that noble band, after a long and useful life closed up his earthly career on the first of March, 1872. In his death the community lost a valuable member. Mr. Kalb was a member of the Methodist church for many years, and two of his sons, John S. and and Isaac N., were ministers of that church. Father Kalb was a fine specimen of the frontiersman, and contributed his full share in clearing up the county.

The first school house was built in 1838 at the present site of McComb. It was of the then approved style, roimd log, clap boai'd roof, mud chimney order of architecture. There are now eight good school buildings in the township, and an enrollment o^ four Immdred and forty-four children of school age.

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

Photographs

7 photographs, 1940 to 1941

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Barnyard scene. Hancock County, Ohio
Lee, Russell, 1941. Library of Congress

Jesse Wolf House, 210 East Main Cross Street, Findlay, Hancock County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

P. W. Ewing House, Route 68, Findlay, Hancock County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 18 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hancock between 1906 and 1975: 17 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by David G. Furth, F. O. Grover, Langlois, T. H. 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
Valsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.	1906	F. O. Grover	Near Black Swamp, Oberlin.
Eutarsopolipus Berlese, 1913	1934	Ray T. Everly	Pleasant Twp. Sect. 23 Stone Quarry
Lepomis Rafinesque, 1819	1948	Wascko, H. L. (Harold L.)	water unknown, northwest Ohio, Ohio, township n/a
Lepomis humilis (Girard, 1858)	1948	Wascko, H. L. (Harold L.)	water unknown, northwest Ohio, Ohio, township n/a
Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1958	Langlois, T. H.	Hortons Chapel Cave, Pleasant Twp, near McComb, Pleasant township
Apateticus cynicus (Say, 1832)	1968	David G. Furth	Hancock
Tramea carolina (Linnaeus, 1763)	1968	David G. Furth	Hancock
Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.)	Portage River, Rader Creek at CoRd bridge 203; 3.6 mi S of Hoytville.
Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.) & Hoke, R. (Robert)	Portage River -- Lake Erie, Rader Creek, at the Golf Course on the W side of McComb. (Rt 63)
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.)	Portage River, Rader Creek at CoRd bridge 203; 3.6 mi S of Hoytville.
Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.) & Hoke, R. (Robert)	Portage River -- Lake Erie, Rader Creek, at the Golf Course on the W side of McComb. (Rt 63)
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1975	Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.)	Portage River, Rader Creek at CoRd bridge 203; 3.6 mi S of Hoytville.

All 18 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
Butlers Mill	0.7 miles	11
North Ridgeville (historical)	1.5 miles	11
Deweyville	2.3 miles	11
Shawtown	3.4 miles	9
McComb	4.6 miles	9
Portage Center	6.9 miles	13
Lewisville (historical)	7.9 miles	9
Murphys	8.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064787. 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.

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