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

Little Sandusky, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pitt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43323. It stands on Honey Run. The Survey maps it on the Morral quadrangle.

Little Sandusky within Wyandot County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Little Sandusky, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Little Sandusky, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

23,693 words on this township

The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Pitt Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Pitt is one of the most fertile townships of the county, a large portion of its area being made up of prairie land. The Sandusky River enters near the northeast corner of Section 25, and flows in a tortuous, general northwest direction, leaving the township at the northwest corner of Section 15, while the Little Sandusky Creek enters near the center of the township on the south, and flows north, being joined by Honey Run from the east near the southern line of Section 35, and uniting with "Big" Sandusky near the center of Section 26. These streams water the eastern half of the township, which is also favored by several flowing springs. The western portion of the township is drained by several small streams which take their rise in that region and flow in a northwesterly direction, carrying the surplus water from the fertile fields which are so generally provided with the "blind" tile ditches, and affording an ample supply of water to the large herds of stock which may not be provided with pools and springs. The territory is well adapted to general agriculture and stock-raising, and is the seat of operations for some of the most prominent dealers in this section of the State, chief among them being David Harpster, C. R. Fowler and Lewis Straw.

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

At this period it is difiicult to state positively who the first settler of Pitt Township was, as, like the Irishman's rattlesnake, " where there's one there's two ; " so it usually transpires, at least in the settlement of a territory so large as that which is usually comprised in the limits of a township. John Wilson, a native of York State, is reputed to have located here in 1820, the first white man to call the locality his home, though it is wellknown that one Walter Woolsey came here in the same spring. The former was a married man with the brilliant advantage of eight children; the latter was a bachelor, also a native of York State. He built a little log cabin in Little Sandusky in 1820, and in his maturer years was finally persuaded

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

In the spring of 1820, John Wilson built a log cabin eighteen feet square in Little Sandusky, and this, we are informed by good authority, was the first clapboard canopy that was erected in this township by the defenseless hands of the pale-faced inhabitants. The first schools were held in a log cabin on Section 10, the house having been occupied formerly by Anthony Bowsher for a dwelling. William Brown, from New Jersey, was the first teacher who taught "the young idea how to shoot" amid these humble surroundings. In 1824, the first school building of the township was erected by Michael Harmon and his neighbors on Mr. Harmon's land, the northeast quarter of Section 11, and here Mr. Brown instructed the youth at intervals for seven or eight years. Other early teachers were William Howe and Mary Howe. In the sixty years that have followed, the progress has been such that seven well-established schools have been founded, the buildings being erected on the respective Sections 11, 15, 23, 27, 31, 33 and 35.

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

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 Pitt Township - it names this place 25 more 25 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 246 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 246 specimens collected within 10 miles of Little Sandusky between 1885 and 1975: 230 Animalia, 13 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Acker, G., Allen, J. M., Blyth & Katz 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
Hister abbreviatus Fabricius, 1775	1885	not recorded	Crane
Margarinotus faedatus (J.E.LeConte, 1845)	1885	not recorded	Crane
Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Bonser Thos.	Wyandot Co.
Phyllachora vulgata Theiss. & Syd.	1900	Thos. Bouser	Big Spring Prairie
Puccinia eatoniae Arthur	1901	Bouser Thomas?	Wyandot Co.
Puccinia fusca Wallr.	1901	Bouser Thomas	Wyandot Co.
Puccinia podophylli Schwein.	1901	Bowser Thomas	Wyandot Co.
Uncinula macrospora Peck	1901	T. A. Bonser
Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1915	Goodrich, Calvin	Upper Sandusky
Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1915	Goodrich, Calvin	Upper Sandusky
Cambarunio iris (I.Lea, 1829)	1915	Goodrich, Calvin	Upper Sandusky
Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1915	Goodrich, Calvin	Upper Sandusky

All 246 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Little Sandusky: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Mccarthy Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wyandot County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Sandusky in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sandusky	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed many large tree limbs.
May 2024	Hail	Little Sandusky	-	Hail up to half dollar-size at intersection of County Road 128 and OH-294 east of Harpster.

Every storm recorded in Wyandot 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
Harpster	2.0 miles	11
Bowsherville (historical)	4.2 miles	11
Wyandot	5.1 miles	11
Douglass (historical)	5.8 miles	12
Edenville	6.3 miles	12
South Park	6.6 miles	10
Mononcue	6.7 miles	10
Upper Sandusky	7.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065011. 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.