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

Hutson, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44411. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Deerfield quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hutson within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hutson (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hutson (historical), surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

3,690 words on this township

History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Deerfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Deerfield Agricultural Society was organized at Deerfield February 6, 1874, with Charles O. Betts, Harmon D. Hutson and Charles Parham members. This was a society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, of which the ladies of the township were honorary members. «

Passage source: History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885.

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 Deerfield Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 16 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hutson (historical) between 1880 and 1968: 9 Fungi, 5 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. J. Crandall, B.J.Crandall, 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hypoxylon glomeratum CookeHypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. LloydLloyd
Specimen of Agaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) PeckAgaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) Peck1964B. J. CrandallShawnee State Park
Specimen of Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C.Tul.Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C.Tul.1964B.J.CrandallShawnee State Park
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Collection of R. SpiresAtwater, Near
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1899W. A. KellermanEdinburgh
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1908Selby A. D.Atwater
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)West Branch Mahoning River, within Paris township, near South Canal, Paris township
A photograph of the species Bidens aristosa, not of this specimenBidens aristosa (Michx.) Britton1933Wible, M.Deerfield
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201941Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Mahoning River, within Portage Co, city n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Cladonia grayi, not of this specimenCladonia grayi G.Merr. ex Sandst.1959Conan J. Taylor1/2 mi. below Berlin Reservoir, dam.
Specimen of Cyathus striatus Willd.Cyathus striatus Willd.1964B. J. CrandallShawnee State Park
Specimen of Irpex cinnamomeus Fr.Irpex cinnamomeus Fr.1964Father P. SandersShawnee State Park

All 16 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 Hutson (historical): 2 producers. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Deerfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valley Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Deerfield1.6 miles14
North Benton Station1.6 miles20
Keans (historical)3.2 miles14
Lloyd3.9 miles14
All Seasons Lake Park3.9 miles14
Davis4.6 miles14
Yale5.1 miles14
Diamond5.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067189. 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.