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

Lewisville, Ohio

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blanchard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45840. It stands on Ottawa Creek. The Survey maps it on the McComb quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lewisville within Hancock County

Then and now

1956 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lewisville (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Lewisville (historical), surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

17,843 words on this township

History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Blanchard Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first school house was a log cabin affair, and stood near where the present residence of 'ihomas Groves stands, and was built in 1830. The first school was taught by John C. Wickham. There are now ten school buildings in the township, and the enumeration of youth is three hundred and eighty-four.

Passage source: History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

This locality, on account of the abundance of fish and game, was one of the resorts of the Indians on their hunting expeditions. And indeed hunting and fishing were not -only among the amusements of the whites, but they were works of necessity with them, in order to support themselves. The fish-net and the rifle was a part of the furniture of every well regulated log cabin, and by the skillful use of these, the tables of the pioneer were spread with fish, johnny cake and venison, to which the neighboi and stranger alike were always welcome.

In 1848 a Post Office was established in this township called Oak Ridge, It was first located at the house of William Downing, on the Findley and Defiance State road, north side of the river, and Mr. Downing was the first Post Master. It was an office of no importance, only as it gave to the community in which it was located, mail facilities, and this accommodation has been such as to warrant the continuance of the office to the present time. Mr. Downing has been succeeded by the following persons as Post Masters, viz.: Robert Marshall, Mr. Morris, Mrs. Wm. Downing,

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 Blanchard Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 268 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 268 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lewisville (historical) between 1883 and 1975: 257 Animalia, 11 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, CL & LC Hubbs, CLARENCE CLARK 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
Valsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.	1906	F. O. Grover	Near Black Swamp, Oberlin.
Notropis boops Gilbert, 1884	1883	Kirsch, P. H	Blanchard River, Findlay
Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1893	P. Kirsch	Blanchard River, Findlay, Ohio
Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	P. Kirsch	Blanchard River, Findley, Ohio
Regina septemvittata (Say, 1825)	1893	not recorded	Findlay, Blanchard River
Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
Helminthosporium gramineum Rabenh. ex Schltdl.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
Helminthosporium sorokinianum Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Eagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Eagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Eagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage

All 268 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Benton Ridge	3.2 miles	9
Moffitt (historical)	3.6 miles	9
McComb	3.9 miles	9
Murphys	4.0 miles	13
Chase	4.5 miles	13
Riverview Terrace Park	5.6 miles	13
Deweyville	5.8 miles	11
Shawtown	5.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063597. 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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