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

Nevada, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Eden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44849. It stands on Indian Run. The Survey maps it on the Nevada quadrangle. 706 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Nevada within Wyandot County

Population over time

2 figures

Nevada fell from 760 to 706 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	760
2020	706	-54 (-7%)

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Nevada, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Nevada, surveyed 1906

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

13,914 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 Eden Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first white man who established himself in this township was, perhaps, Isaac Miller, a native of Rockingham County, Va. , who, with his family of five to seven children, located on Section 29, near the present town of Nevada, in 1836. He was familiarly known as Congress Miller, and for seven years leased laud of Jacob Young, a Wyandot Indian. In 1837, Mr. Miller was joined by George W. Leith, better known as Judge Leith, who settled on a quarter-section of Section No. 10, and John Horick on Quarter-section 27. Judge Leith was a man of considerable prominence in the early history of the county, having served as Justice of the Peace in Crawford County, and as Associate Judge of Wyandot County for a period of eight years. In 1839, John Welsh, Morgan Carter, Zaccheus Lea, Mr. Hill, Charles Caldwell, Samuel Snyder and a Mr. Cook were added to the list on Sections 34, 10, 10, 3, 34, 28 and 27 respectively. In 1840, 1841 and 1842 these were re-enforced by others who followed in rapid succession till quite a settlement was formed.

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

The first road regularly laid out in the township extended through Sections 34 and 27, and was opened in 1839, though prior to this the Indian trails and " blazed tracks " were, no doubt, quite numerous and considerably used. The Oceola road from Indian Run to Rock Run was opened by the Wyandot Indians, under the supervision of Isaac Miller, who at this date resides in Antrim Township. Some of these earlier roads or " trails " led to the Indian resorts, one of which was the locality of the springs, which were supposed to be medicinal in their qualities, located in Section 22, and two others on the farms now owned by Henry and Samuel Aten on the Oceola State Road. On the farm now owned by Tilman Balliet, an Indian burying ground is located, and here from the healing fountains, they repaired to chant the death songs over their stricken dead. Orchards were planted, and among these, as well as in other places, they have left their records in the implements of war and the chase, stone hatchets, spear heads and arrow heads, and besides these the crude domestic utensils, such as the mortar and pestle by which they ground the corn that served to make their bread or thicken their skunk and 'possum broth. For the greater part of their supplies the earlier settlers of this township, as well as of other townships went to Sandusky City and Fremont, and up to date Eden Township cannot claim the honors of a grist mill. In 1849, the first saw mill was erected by Crawford & Lance, and seven mills are now in operation in the township - one owned by Samuel Bever at Nevada; one by Turney & Yohe, Edenville; one by Joseph Paulin, Little York; a fourth by John Kreechbaum on Section 6; a fifth by James Spangler, Eden Center; another by Marti en Brothers, Section 25, and the seventh by Conger & Co., at the Fish Fond, Section 15. The mercantile interests of Eden were somewhat thwarted by the establishment of a store in the village of Wyandot in an early day, and later by the sudden appearance and growth of Nevada (which, however, is partially situated in this township), after the construction of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad. There are at present, however, two stores in the township outside of the villages, one situated on Section 20, conducted by Conrad Haas; the other on Section 17, conducted by Daniel T. Warner. The first store was kept by William Jobs on Section 9. The first dwelling log cabin, 14x18, by Congress Miller.

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 Eden Township - it names this place 9 more 9 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 219 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 219 specimens collected within 10 miles of Nevada between 1885 and 1975: 205 Animalia, 13 Fungi, 1 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 219 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 Nevada: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	H and M Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wyandot County

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nevada in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood. 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 2017	Flood	Nevada	$100,000	A cluster of thunderstorms in Indiana moved into central Ohio midday. These storms had high rainfall rates. The hardest hit community was Nevada in Wyandot County around 115 pm. Radar estimates of 3-5 inches fell. Several basements on Morrison Street were inundated due to widespread overland flooding up to a foot deep. State Route 231 was closed in and around town due to high water. Several County roads were closed across the county. There were numerous basements and roads flooded in the area.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Nevada	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power poles in Nevada.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Nevada	$7,000	Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and one utility pole.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nevada	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a house.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nevada	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Nevada	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Nevada	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Nevada	-	Tree downed along County Highway 59, just east of County Highway 128, on the southeast side of Upper Sandusky.
April 2025	Hail	Nevada	-	Hail up to ping pong ball-size about one-mile south of Nevada.
March 2012	Hail	Nevada	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.
June 2007	Hail	Nevada	-	Penny size hail was observed.
August 2005	Hail	Nevada	-	Penny size hail was observed.
May 2003	Hail	Nevada	-	Penny size hail was observed.

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
Edenville	1.5 miles	12
Seal	4.1 miles	11
Douglass (historical)	4.9 miles	12
Wyandot	6.1 miles	11
Little Sandusky	7.1 miles	12
Mononcue	7.3 miles	10
Deunquat	7.5 miles	11
Smithville	7.5 miles	11

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 Nevada	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1829995	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 1056444. 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.