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

Prout, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oxford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44870. The Survey maps it on the Kimball quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Prout within Erie County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Prout (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Prout (historical), surveyed 1904

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

3,113 words on this township

A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Oxford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The building of the Bloomingville Bank was begun in the spring of 1816. <A large substantial brick edifice was erected opposite the Shirley House, containing a vault. It was built by Ebenezer Hartwell, a wealthy man for that time. He employed a skillful engraver to make money plate before they procured a charter and before any money was put in circulation. Judge Wright, of Huron, went to Columbus to get the charter and was told of a statute just passed forbidding chartering any more banks for a year. He returned home and told the directors, and they announced that they had a charter and started to issue their money. But the people learned the facts and would not take the money so that the bank never did any business. It was the first brick or stone bank building erected probably in the State of Ohio. The wood addition was added later. At that time Bloomingville was the largest town in Northern Ohio, and the building became the residence of Eleutherus Cooke, and his son, Pitt Cooke, of Sandusky, was born there. In 1837 Andrew W. Prout, of Sandusky, was also born there.

Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.

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 Oxford Township.

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Prout (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
6 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,522 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,522 specimens collected within 10 miles of Prout (historical) between 1860 and 1975: 1,220 Animalia, 1,042 Plantae, 227 Fungi, 26 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, A. F. Satterthwait 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
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1899	F.L. Scribner
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1900	Grover, F.O.	"Dry sandy hillside, shaded
Perca Linnaeus, 1758	1860	Smithsonian Institution	Sandusky
Vermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)	1868	No Person (Birds)	Taylor
Carduus nutans L.	1874	Jones, G.T.	Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)	1881	D. S. Young
Apios tuberosa Moench	1885	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link	1885	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Artemisia caudata Michx.	1886	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Graminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous	1886	William Trelease; A. Commons	Madison
Panicum virgatum L.	1886	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1896	E. L. Moseley	Margaretta Ridge

All 2,522 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Prout (historical): 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Febus Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sandusky Crushed Stone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sandusky Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Soldiers Home Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wagner Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Erie 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
Bloomingville	1.5 miles	12
Kimball	2.9 miles	12
Sand Hill	3.0 miles	18
Wilmer	3.1 miles	16
Columbus Park	3.6 miles	16
Southgate Acres	3.9 miles	16
Weyers	3.9 miles	18
Bogart	4.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065529. 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.

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.