Hayesville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Vermillion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44838. The Survey maps it on the Ashland South quadrangle. 447 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.

Hayesville within Ashland County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hayesville, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Hayesville, surveyed 1908

On record in Hayesville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Hayesville Opera Houselisted 1976
William Kelley Hardware Store-Hayesville Odd Fellows Halllisted 2017
Vermilion Institutelisted 1978

Population over time

2 figures

Hayesville fell from 448 to 447 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	448
2020	447	-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 printed 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.

1908 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ashland South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Vermillion township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863 - Vermillion Township

Coulter Family

"The Coulter family are known as among the earliest settlers at Perrysville, on the Black Fork. Thomas Coulter (the father of John) was born in the State of New York, and moved from thence with his father to the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, and was living there at the time of the Wyoming massacre.

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In the county-history sources

85,561 words on this township

A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863 names this settlement in its chapter on Vermillion Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

There is a church building belonging to this denomination on the land of McClure Davis, within about a mile and a half of the south line of the township, which was erected in 1852. The building is known by the name of "Hammond's Meeting-House." The pulpit is supplied during the current year by Rev. Mr. Starr and Rev. Mr. SpafFord.

Passage source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863.

This church, in the pleasant and flourishing " Risser Settlement," was reorganized in 1860. The house was built in 1847 by the Mennonites, a denomination that embraced about fifteen families. Rev. John Risser was the first pastor, but resigned after about three years' service. The church officers were Christian Herschler and John Latschar. After this one-half interest in the house was sold to the Germans of other denominations, and were served by Lutheran ministers until 1860. The name of its present pastor is Rev. M. Kroenlein. The church officers are C. Vesper, Andrew Rohletter, F. Long, and G. Smith. Number of members about sixty. The dimensions of the house are 28 by 36 feet, and will accommodate about one hundred and seventy-five persons with seats.

Passage source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863.

The original proprietors of the town of Hayesville were Rev. John Cox and Linus Hayes. As the Loudonville and Ashland, and Wooster and Mansfield roads crossed at this point, Mr. Cox concluded that it might be the site of a future town. He accordingly gave notice of a sale of lots, and on the day named a considerable number assembled to attend the sale. The business opened in the forenoon, and the auctioneer, John Shriver, expended his "yelloquence" in vain on the advantages offered, for no bids whatever could be obtained. At noon Mr. Cox despaired of being the founder of a town in this locality, and offered his whole farm for three hundred dollars. Even this offer, however, he could persuade no one to accept.

Passage source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863.

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 Vermillion Township - it names this place 43 more 43 times.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hayesville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
20 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15814
9 March 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15500
27 February 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13545
6 November 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15943
4 November 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15942

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 379 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 379 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hayesville between 1846 and 1975: 351 Animalia, 26 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, B Zahuranec & party, B.H., H.P., M.A. & R. Rhoades 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
Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin	1923	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	near Londonville
Mediorhynchus grandis Van Cleave, 1916	1846	P. Harwood	Ashland
Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1897	Smith, D. W.	Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
Danthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.	1897	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	Vermilion Township
Perlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839)	1899	R.C. Osburn
Tyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)	1900	Fuller, W. J.	Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1902	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Calopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus	1909	Hopkins, L.S.	Round Lake
Carex comosa Boott	1911	Hopkins, L.S.	Round Lake
Eleocharis acicularis (L.) Roem. & Schult.	1911	Hopkins, L.S.	Round Lake
Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.	1911	Hopkins, L.S.	Round Lake
Festuca subverticillata (Pers.) E.B.Alexeev	1911	Hopkins, L.S.	Round Lake

All 379 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hayesville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bolin and Son Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Bolin and Son Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayesville in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2019	Flash Flood	Hayesville	$50,000	County Road 1775 closed due to flowing water from Newell Run Creek near Montgomery Township. Minor road damage with pavement lifted.
June 1998	Flash Flood	Hayesville	$40,000	Flooding occurred from heavy thunderstorm rains on top of already saturated soil. Roads were closed from flood waters. Telephone poles being readied to replace storm damage poles from previous days floated away down County Road 1802.
May 1998	Flash Flood	Hayesville	$30,000	Heavy thunderstorm rain caused flooding of basements and State Route 60.
May 2012	Hail	Hayesville	$25,000	Quarter to golf ball sized hail was observed. Some minor damage was reported.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$15,000	A local newspaper reported trees downed southeast of Hayesville. There was also a social media report of roof damage to a barn between Hayesville and Loudonville.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed large tree branches and trees across the area.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and large limbs south of Hayesville. Trees and limbs were also reported down in the Loudonville area.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds snapped several trees in a wooded area south of Hayesville.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$10,000	Several trees were reported down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$10,000	Several trees were reported downed as severe thunderstorms moved east through central portions of the county.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees south of Hayesville.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$4,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two very large trees.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$4,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two trees.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$4,000	Trees, limbs and power lines were downed.
May 2014	Hail	Hayesville	$2,000	A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayesville	$2,000	A few large limbs reported down.
May 2012	Hail	Hayesville	-	Nickel sized hail was observed.
June 2009	Hail	Hayesville	-	Nickel size hail was observed.
April 2004	Hail	Hayesville	-	Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Ashland County

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
Widowville	3.3 miles	13
Jeromesville	4.1 miles	11
Treaton	4.1 miles	11
McKay	4.8 miles	13
England	4.8 miles	11
Mohicanville	4.9 miles	13
Mifflin	5.4 miles	15
Spreng	5.6 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Hayesville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2591284	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064816. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.