Mohicanville, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mohican Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44840. The Survey maps it on the Loudonville quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Mohicanville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
John Garst Houselisted 1982 · 0.3 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
121,491 words on this townshipA History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863 names this settlement in its chapter on Mohican Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The water power of the village is the main source of its prosperity. The three principal springs emerge from the summit of the hill, on the west side of the town, and from their head to the bed of the creek, a distance of about three hundred yards, the fall exceeds one hundred feet, turning three wheels of a combined diameter of sixty-two feet.
Passage source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863.
This church was organized at Mohicanville in the year 1828, under the charge of Rev. Elmer Yocura. Among the original members were Nathan and Mary Dally, Charles Dally, Elizabeth Smith, and Mrs. Sheets. The society was formed at the house of Henry Sherradden. Until 1844, the meetings were held at private houses, and at the school-house in the village. At the date mentioned, the present house was erected - a building capable of seating about four hundred persons.
Passage source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863.
The church was organized with seven members. It now embraces about fifty-two members. The present clergymen are, Rev. William M. Spafford and Rev, Matthew L. Starr. The officers of the church are, William Moore, circuit steward; George Botdorf, John Metcalf, William Moore, and Vincent Dally, trustees; and Nicholas Wireman and Vincent Dally, class-leaders.
Passage source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date, published 1863.
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 Mohican Township - it names this place 10 more 10 times.
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mohicanville between 2017 and 2018, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13545 |
| 28 November 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9951 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 646 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 646 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mohicanville between 1896 and 1975: 609 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A.E. Daugherty, Auten, M. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin | 1923 | Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor | near Londonville |
![]() | Agastache scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze | 1896 | not recorded | Lakeville |
![]() | Coreopsis tripteris L. | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
![]() | Decodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
![]() | Polygonum coccineum f. terrestre (Willd.) Stanford | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
![]() | Pontederia cordata L. | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
![]() | Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1897 | Smith, D. W. | Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Danthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult. | 1897 | Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley | Vermilion Township |
![]() | Agnetina flavescens (Walsh, 1862) | 1899 | R. C. Osburn | Loudonville |
| Neoperla mainensis Banks, 1948 | 1899 | not recorded | Loudonville | |
![]() | Perlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839) | 1899 | R.C. Osburn | |
![]() | Tyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838) | 1900 | Fuller, W. J. | Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA |
All 646 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mohicanville in 1 storm report in 1997: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Hail | Mohicanville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Fork | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| McKay | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| McZena | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Spreng | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Hayesville | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Jeromesville | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Loudonville | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Widowville | 6.8 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065043. 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.
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.



















