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

Martinstown, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Arlington Village. It lies in ZIP code area 45814. It stands on Buck Run. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Martinstown within Hancock County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Martinstown (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Martinstown (historical), surveyed 1905

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 1903 county history

2,254 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Arlington Village covers the township.

Read the chapter on Arlington Village - 2,254 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 682 shown

Museums hold 682 specimens collected within 10 miles of Martinstown (historical) between 1883 and 1973: 665 Animalia, 17 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Notropis boops, not of this specimenNotropis boops Gilbert, 18841883Kirsch, P. HBlanchard River, Findlay
A photograph of the species Bombus lucorum, not of this specimenBombus lucorum (Linnaeus, 1761)1886not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Bombus bohemicus, not of this specimenBombus bohemicus Seidl, 18381887not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893P. KirschBlanchard River, Findlay, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893P. KirschBlanchard River, Findley, Ohio
A photograph of the species Regina septemvittata, not of this specimenRegina septemvittata (Say, 1825)1893not recordedFindlay, Blanchard River
A photograph of the species Bombus pascuorum, not of this specimenBombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1763)1895not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton1901W. A. KellermanArlington
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1905not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Bombus fervidus, not of this specimenBombus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)1906not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus variabilis (Cresson, 1872)1907not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Bombus griseocollis, not of this specimenBombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)1911not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River

All 682 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Martinstown (historical): 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pifer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hancock 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
Arlington0.9 miles14
Beagle (historical)2.1 miles14
Houcktown3.6 miles13
Jenera4.0 miles14
Williamstown5.0 miles12
Mount Blanchard5.1 miles13
West Union (historical)6.0 miles12
New Stark6.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063598. 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.