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

Huntersville, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45810. The Survey maps it on the Alger quadrangle.

Huntersville within Hardin County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Huntersville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Huntersville, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

9,298 words on this township

The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Marion Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Mathew Dolson, a native of Canada, settled on lands in the forks of the two roads, near Huntersville, in 1833. He married, and had a family of several children. He resided here several years, but subsequently moved away with all his family.

Passage source: The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883.

Sampson Shadley was a native of Virginia, and early removed to Licking County, Ohio: thence, in the fall of 1834, came to this county and settled on the north side of the marsh, south of Huntersville. He was twice married; by his first wife, Catharine Trump, he had the following children: Jacob, Christena, Ann, Hiram, Sampson, Lydia, Polly and Docia. His 1 second wife, Mrs. Lyon, from Columbiana County, bore him five children, viz., Henry. Asa, Maria A., Sarah E. and William W. Mr. Shadley re- ' mained a resident of tbe place where he first settled till his death, and was 1 interred upon his own farm. He was an honorable and a just man, and in his later years a devoted member of the Methodist Church.

Passage source: The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883.

Isaac McCoy was a native of Virginia; settled about two miles west of Huntersville, about 1835. He married Miss Christopher, a daughter of Leven Christopher. Subsequently, he sold his farm and removed to the place where he now lives, on the northwest quarter of Section 30.

Passage source: The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883.

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 Marion Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 412 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 412 specimens collected within 10 miles of Huntersville between 1885 and 1973: 200 Protozoa, 151 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. P. Morgan, A. P. M. 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 Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.1923W.G. StoverKenton
Specimen of Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1939J. PeltonPond near Kenton
Specimen of unnamed1942?
A photograph of the species Bovistella radicata, not of this specimenBovistella radicata (Durieu & Mont.) Pat.1885A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Gloeophyllum trabeum, not of this specimenGloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill1886A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Craterium leucocephalum, not of this specimenCraterium leucocephalum (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Ditmar, 18131888Morgan, A. P.Ohio: Preston
A photograph of the species Diderma floriforme, not of this specimenDiderma floriforme (Bull.) Pers., 17941888not recordedOhio: Preston
A photograph of the species Calonema aureum, not of this specimenCalonema aureum Morgan, 18931889Morgan, A. P.; Preston, O.
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1889A. P. MorganPreston
Metatrichia vesparia (Batsch) Nann.-Bremek. ex G.W.Martin & Alexop., 19691890Morgan, A. P.; Preston,O.
Physarum serpula Morgan, 18961892Morgan A. P.United States-- Ohio, Preston
Trichia favoginea (Batsch) Pers., 17941892Morgan, A. P.Ohio: Preston

All 412 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
McGuffey2.0 miles16
Foraker3.1 miles11
Hillcrest Estates3.9 miles12
Belmont Court4.0 miles16
Alger4.1 miles16
Parkview Village South4.3 miles12
Parkview Village North4.4 miles12
Blocktown (historical)4.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064879. 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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