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Hassan, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45841. The Survey maps it on the Ada quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1907 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ada quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ada quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
4,320 words on this townshipHistory of Hancock County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County, Its Townships, Towns ... Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Biographies, History of the Northwest Territory, History of Ohio, Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Van Buren Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Schools. - The first schoolhouse in this township was built about 1842 near the north line of Section 9, on the farm now owned by Michael Heldman. Another was erected soon afterward on the farm, now owned by Adam Steinman in Section 22. Miss Mary Welty was the first teacher in this school. As the township settled up other schoolhouses were built, and education became general. Van Buren now boasts of six good brick school buildings, which are all kept open throughout the school year.
Passage source: History of Hancock County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County, Its Townships, Towns ... Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Biographies, History of the Northwest Territory, History of Ohio, Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc, published 1886.
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 Van Buren Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 531 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 531 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hassan (historical) between 1886 and 1973: 524 Animalia, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, F GEHLBACH, F R & N V GEHLBACH 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Bombus lucorum (Linnaeus, 1761) | 1886 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River |
 | Bombus bohemicus Seidl, 1838 | 1887 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River |
 | Bombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1763) | 1895 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River |
 | Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Arlington |
 | Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773) | 1905 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River |
 | Bombus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798) | 1906 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River |
| Bombus variabilis (Cresson, 1872) | 1907 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River | |
 | Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773) | 1911 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River |
| Bombus auricomus (Robertson, 1903) | 1912 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River | |
| Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863 | 1913 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River | |
| Bombus fraternus (Smith, 1854) | 1913 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River | |
 | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1914 | not recorded | UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River |
All 531 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Stark | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Cordelia | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Jenera | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Cannonsburg | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Williamstown | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| West Union (historical) | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Cory | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Arlington | 7.0 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1085215. 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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