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Hardscrabble, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Liverpool Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44280. It stands on Delwood Run. The Survey maps it on the West View quadrangle.

Hardscrabble within Medina County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hardscrabble, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hardscrabble, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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

19,879 words on this township

Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861 names this settlement in its chapter on Liverpool Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

35. And Seba often mused upon the saltish speculation after this manner : I scrabbled hard to get the pieces of silver ; I scrabbled hard to get the well for my own benefit ; I scrabbled hard to get others to aid me ; they have had a hard scrabble to get the well from each other; it has been a hard scrabble to make the salt, and a hard scrabble to save it when made. And all the people call the place Hardscrabble unto this day.

Passage source: Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861.

36. In due course of time the «eal to own salt wells along the river called Rocky abated, the desire to buy salt lands failed, the using of salt from the well that Seba and the four winds anathematized ceased ; the men who had been engaged in saltish speculations abandoned the practice ; and all who bought it, unitedly called it a Hardscrabble.

Passage source: Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861.

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 Liverpool Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 239 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 239 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hardscrabble between 1884 and 1975: 221 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Roberts, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1890not recorded
Specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1894Watson, J.R.Medina Co.
Specimen of Nesaea verticillata (L.) KunthNesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth1896Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger Linnaeus, 17581884unknownMedina
A photograph of the species Halictus confusus, not of this specimenHalictus confusus confusus1885H. E. SummersMedina
A photograph of the species Mougeotia genuflexa, not of this specimenMougeotia genuflexa (Roth) C.Agardh1896F. D. KelseyPlum Creek
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa subsp. interior WoodsonAsclepias tuberosa subsp. interior Woodson1897Ashcroft, G.B.; O. BereaThe Western Reserve. Brunswick
A photograph of the species Culicoides guttipennis, not of this specimenCulicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901)1897J. HineMedina
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1897G. B. AshcroftLester
Specimen of Hinea Townsend, 1916Hinea Townsend, 19161897J. HineMedina
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1897G. B. AshcroftBrunswick
A photograph of the species Aplectrum hyemale, not of this specimenAplectrum hyemale (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt.1898Illegible collector nameMedina

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Valley City1.6 miles14
Valley City Station2.1 miles14
Franks Corner2.1 miles14
Beebetown2.8 miles20
Pliny (historical)3.4 miles14
Rolling Wheel Park4.6 miles23
Brunswick4.8 miles13
Erhart4.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061120. 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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