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

Hunt, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43050. The Survey maps it on the Hunt quadrangle.

Hunt within Knox County

Then and now

1912 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hunt, surveyed 1966

Topographic sheet of Hunt, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

6,150 words on this township

History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Pleasant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

At this date it cannot be determined who the first inhabitant of Pleasant township was. Amongst the earliest settlers was James Colville. He came from Washington county, Pennsylvania to Knox county about 1803-4. In 1804 he purchased one hundred acres of land, east of Mt. Vernon, in Pleasant township, cleared some land, planted an orchard, and raised a crop in 1805. The same year he built a small log house, and in 1806 he got married and moved into it. This was setting an example worthy of imitation, which others were not slow to follow.

Passage source: History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881.

Jonathan Hunt, born in Somerset county. New Jersey, October 23, 1780, married Honor Wells, of West Virginia, and moved to Knox county, Ohio, in 1806. In company with his father, Jonathan Hunt, sr., he located in what is now the southwest corner of Pleasant township. Being a gunsmith he was often employed to repair guns for the Indians, previous to the War of 1812. Mr. Hunt was present at Mt. Vernon on the twenty-eighth of March, 1808, when the commissioners appointed to locate the seat of justice for Knox county arrived, and volunteered to work on that memorable occasion. His name appears on the panel of the first grand jury for Knox county, May 2, 1808, and at an election held in Sychamore township, September 13, 18 15, he was elected trustee. During the War of 18 12 he served under Major Kratzer, and was a part of the time employed in repairing guns, for which he received one dollar per day extra pay. License was granted to him to keep tavern in 181 5. Hunt's Station perpetuates his memory.

Hopewell Methodist Episcopal church is situated on the East Union road, one mile west of the east line of the township. Its history cannot be obtained. The following facts are all that can be ascertained in reference to it. The present structure - a frame thirty-six by forty feet - was built under the auspices of Rev. Allen Moffat, in 1855. The present number of members is forty-three. The class-leaders are William Smith and David B. Kerr. A Sunday-school of thirty-five scholars is attached to this church. Michael Noon is superintendent.

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.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 698 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 698 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hunt between 1877 and 1975: 644 Animalia, 31 Fungi, 22 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Barker, C. G. Lloyd 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
Fusicladium Bonord.	1883	W. A. Kellermann
Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke	1883	Dr. W.A. Kellerman
Pestalotia De Not., 1841	1883	W. A. Kellermann	No locality on label
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1877	not recorded	unspecified
Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)	1879	Willard L. Maris
Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	Kellerman
Phyllosticta lappae Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellermann
Phyllosticta persicae Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellermann
Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.	1883	Dr. W. A. Kellerman
Phyllosticta verbenae Sacc., 1879	1883	Prof. Kellerman
Ramularia arvensis Sacc.	1883	Kellerman

All 698 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hunt: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Goodwin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Purdy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Purdy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunt in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hunt	-	Several trees were blown down.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hunt	-	Several trees were blown down near Martinsburg.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Brandon	2.1 miles	10
Morgan Center	3.9 miles	13
Vaughan Court	4.4 miles	13
South Mount Vernon	4.4 miles	13
Buckingham Court	4.5 miles	13
Bangs	4.9 miles	10
Fleaville (historical)	4.9 miles	13
Mount Vernon	5.1 miles	13

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 Hunt	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133844	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 1064877. 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.

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.