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

Mentzer, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Buck Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43326. The Survey maps it on the Mount Victory quadrangle.

Mentzer within Hardin County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mentzer, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Mentzer, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

14,815 words on this township

The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Buck Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

William H. Cole, a native of the State of New York, settled on land now owned by Samuel Mentzer about 1833. Here he erected an ashery, and carried on that business several years, giving but little attention to farming, and finally sold out and moved away.

Passage source: The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883.

Samuel Mentzer was one of the earlier merchants of Kenton; was also in the hotel business for some time, but subsequently exchanged his prop- erty in Kenton for the farm on Wolf Creek upon which William H. Cole settled in 1833. IVIr. Mentzer was closely identified with the business interests of Kenton and its vicinity for many years.

Passage source: The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883.

John Bales, Lewis Dunson, Z. O. Hatcher, E. S. Buttler, M. D. L. Mentzer, John C. Johnson, Jacob Everhart and William Mentzer, who were organized under the laws regulating such associations, and purchased of Samuel Mentzer one acre and a half of ground, which was properly fenced and laid out into lots, walks and driveways, and the whole well ditched, tiled and drained. The lots were rapidly sold, and in the spring of 1882 it was found necessary to enlarge the grounds, and the association purchased of the said Samuel Mentzer three and one-half acres more, adjoining the first purchase; so that the cemetery now contains five acres, and is now one of the prettiest of rural cemeteries. The officers of the association consist of a President, Secretary, Treasurer, and five persons who constitute a Board of Trustees. The first officers of the association were; John P. Richards, President; Lewis Dunson, Secretary; John C. Johnson, Treasurer, and P.

Passage source: The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883.

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 Buck Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mentzer between 2002 and 2002, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 November 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 128 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 128 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mentzer between 1882 and 1970: 108 Animalia, 19 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W SHARER, Angle, E. (Eric), Anson A. Hinkley 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
Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke	1906	Penfield, O.; C. B. Wilson	Ridgeway
Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.	1923	W.G. Stover	Kenton
Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)	1939	J. Pelton	Pond near Kenton
Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 1817	1882	W.C. Hampton	Mt. Victory
Puccinia graminis var. phlei-pratensis (Erikss. & Henn.) Stakman & Piem.	1908	Clinton; Bird	Mt. Victory
Guignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1910	Heckathorne H. E.	Kenton
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1910	Heckathorne H. E.	Kenton
Puccinia asterum (Schwein.) F.Kern	1913	Bartholomew E.	Kenton
Puccinia caricis-solidaginis Arthur	1913	E. Bartholomew	Kenton
Puccinia dioicae Magnus	1913	Bartholomew, Elam T	Kenton
Puccinia extensicola Plowr.	1913	E. Bartholomew	Kenton.
Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)	1914	Anson A. Hinkley	Scioto River, Kenton, near headwaters, North America

All 128 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
Grassy Point	2.6 miles	11
Browns Crossroads	3.1 miles	11
Kenton	3.8 miles	12
Otterbein	4.1 miles	11
Westview Estates	4.5 miles	12
Pfeiffer	4.8 miles	10
Silver Creek	5.3 miles	11
Mount Victory	5.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062887. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.