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

Haney, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43511. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Haney within Wood County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Haney (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Haney (historical), surveyed 1909

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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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Milton township, in the words of 1897.

1897, Milton Township

Wild Hogs

THE earliest recollections we have from the first settlers all speak of the great numbers of wild hogs that frequented the woods in the Black Swamp. They were more numerous at times than the deer and many years later they were captured in the dense woods north of what is called the "Devil's Hole."

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In the 1897 county history

7,472 words on this township

The county history of 1897 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Milton Township covers comparative statistics, population, first elections, township officials, pioneer land buyers, a reminiscence.

Read the chapter on Milton Township - 7,472 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Haney (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
31 October 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 239 shown

Museums hold 239 specimens collected within 10 miles of Haney (historical) between 1893 and 1975: 230 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. BURGER, C. Triplehorn, Collector(s): Nixon Wilson 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
Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1893	United States Fish Commission	Beaver Creek, Grand Rapids
Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1893	PH Kirsch	Beaver Creek, from mouth (at Maumee) up for 3 mi; near Grand Rapids; Maumee River dr
Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1918	E L MOSELEY	MILTON TWP
Platanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer	1928	Welsh, J.W.; Moseley, E.L.	St. Johns Woods, Bowling Green
Fundulus diaphanus menona Jordan & Copeland, 1877	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Rocky Ford Creek, within Henry township, near Cygnet, Henry township
Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Rocky Ford Creek, within Henry township, near Cygnet, Henry township
Campostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)	1930	MB Trautman	Yellow Creek, trib of Beaver Creek, center of Milton Twp
Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1930	MB Trautman	Yellow Creek, trib of Beaver Creek, center of Milton Twp
Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1930	MB Trautman	Yellow Creek, trib of Beaver Creek, center of Milton Twp
Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1930	MB Trautman	Yellow Creek, trib of Beaver Creek, center of Milton Twp
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Yellow Creek, trib of Beaver Creek, center of Milton Twp
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	MB Trautman	Yellow Creek, trib of Beaver Creek, center of Milton Twp

All 239 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
Wingston	2.3 miles	14
Digby	4.0 miles	14
Hammansburg	4.6 miles	13
Custar	4.6 miles	12
Hoytville	4.6 miles	11
Milton Center	4.6 miles	12
Bays	5.2 miles	14
Ducat	5.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1050448. 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.