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

McComb, Ohio

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45858. The Survey maps it on the McComb quadrangle. 1,558 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

McComb within Hancock County

Population over time

2 figures

McComb fell from 1,648 to 1,558 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	1,648
2020	1,558	-90 (-5%)

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 McComb, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of McComb, 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

11,412 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 Pleasant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first settlement in this township was made in 1833 by Edward Steveson, Benjamin Todd and John J. Needles, at and near where the village of McComb now stands. In the following year William and Alexander Kilpatrick, George Algire, John Kalb, Alexander Amspoker, came to the same neighborhood. In 1835 Robert Morrison, John Bartholomew, Charles Blakeman, Michael Price, David Wright, Jacob Thomas and others reinforced the new settlement.

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.

Benjamin Todd came from Franklin County, O., and settled on the present site of the village of McComb. He was the first Justice of the Peace in the township, having helped to organize the township, and has held various offices since, discharging the duties of all with honesty ana fidelity. He w^as also a member of the first church organization in the township., and has ever since led a consistent Christian life, and now, at the age of ninety years, and having raised a large and respectable family of children, he resides in the village of McComb, surrounded by the triumph of himself and compeers,

John J. Needles emigrated from Franklyn County also, and redeemed from the wilderness a beautiful farm. He was a rather impulsive, eccentric kind of a man, but withal a kind neighbor and a good citizen. He removed to Iowa in 1856 and there died about six years ago.

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 Pleasant Township - it names this place 18 more 18 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 179 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 179 specimens collected within 10 miles of McComb between 1883 and 1975: 168 Animalia, 11 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Collector(s): David E. Ferguson, D.C. Eades, Daiber, F. C. (Frank C.) 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)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ottawa Creek, at Benton Ridge, ~0.4 mi E of Benton Ridge, Blanchard township
Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.	1929	Dickson J. S.	Findlay
Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ottawa Creek, at Benton Ridge, ~0.4 mi E of Benton Ridge, Blanchard township

All 179 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
Deweyville	2.2 miles	11
Portage Center	3.7 miles	13
Murphys	3.9 miles	13
Lewisville (historical)	3.9 miles	9
North Ridgeville (historical)	4.1 miles	11
Shawtown	4.2 miles	9
Hancock	4.6 miles	11
Chase	5.0 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on McComb	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q588363	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061491. 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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