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

Pulaski, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Pulaski Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43506. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montpelier quadrangle. 121 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Pulaski within Williams County

Population over time

2 figures

Pulaski fell from 132 to 121 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	132
2020	121	-11 (-8%)

Then and now

1914 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pulaski, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Pulaski, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

3,683 words on this township

The County of Williams : a History of Williams County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days, with Special Chapters on Various Subjects, Including Each of the Different Townships ; Also a Biographical Department, published 1905 names this settlement in its chapter on Pulaski Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

PREVIOUS to March 3, 1834, the territory of Pulaski township was attached to Tiffin township for the convenience of the people in the adjustment of legal affairs. On the date above written, the board of county commissioners had the following placed in their record of proceedings : "Upon application, the Board orders that a new township be erected, composed of original surveyed townships, six, seven and eight, north of range three east, to be denominated 'Beaver Township;' and the Board further order that the inhabitants assemble at the house of John Perkins, in said township, on the seventh day of April next, and proceed to elect, according to law, the necessary officers for the purpose of organizing said township, and that the auditor advertise accordingly."

Passage source: The County of Williams : a History of Williams County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days, with Special Chapters on Various Subjects, Including Each of the Different Townships ; Also a Biographical Department, published 1905.

It is thought by some that Pulaski is the oldest township in Williams county, but this idea is erroneous, as St. Joseph township was organized nearly two years prior to the date mentioned above. However, it has the distinction of being the second one organized, and, although its name was changed, the functions of local government continued uninterruptedly from the time of its organization.. Beaver township originally included in its domain what are now Jefferson township in Williams county, and Washington township, in Defiance county; but on August 7, 1837, some territory was taken from town 7 (Jefferson) and added to town 6 (Pulaski) and the name of the latter was changed. The commissioners' record of that day reads as follows: "It is ordered by the Board that the south half of range

December 4, 1837, the last change in boundary, which reduced Pulaski to its present size, was made under the provisions of the following: "The Board took into consideration the petition of sundry citizens of town 7, in the county of Williams, praying that the boundary lines of said township might be so altered as to include the same territory included in the original survey of said township, and the board order that the prayer of said petitioners be granted." This action of the Board necessitated another election, and the next day the following entry was made on the record : "In addition to the order of the Board of yesterday, the Board further orders that the auditor give notice to the electors of Pulaski township to meet on the 16th day of December, 1837, at Thomas ShorthilFs, in said township, for the purpose of electing such township officers, whose places have become vacant in consequence of the alteration in said Pulaski township, at the present session of the Board." The adjoining townships to Pulaski are Springfield on the east, Jefferson on the north, Center on the west and Washington township, in Defiance county, on the south.

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

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 103 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pulaski between 1890 and 1974: 101 Animalia, 1 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Bauer, L., C.H. Kennedy 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
Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854	1946	H. Price	Northwest Township, Nettle Creek
Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1948	Kansas University	St. Joseph River, Florence
Plowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc.	1890	Woodard Edwin	Stryker
Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio
Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758	1926	Collector(s): unknown	No specific locality recorded
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758	1927	Price, H. (Homer)	Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA
Mustela nivalis allegheniensis (Rhoads, 1901)	1929	R. Bernath	Stryker
Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bridgewater Twp.: Nettle Cr., Williams Co., Ohio
Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1930	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Blakeslee: St. Joseph's river, Williams Co., Ohio
Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1930	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)	Nettle Lake, Williams, Ohio, USA

All 103 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pulaski: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
	Dennis Winzler Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	J.E. Brown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Williams County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pulaski in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Pulaski	-	Trees and power lines down blocking road.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Pulaski	-	Local fire officials reported a power pole was blown down on County Road 15 and County Road H.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Pulaski	-	Emergency management officials reported a utility pole was snapped northeast of Bryan.
June 2019	Hail	Pulaski	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williams 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
Bona Vista	1.3 miles	13
Bona Vesta	1.9 miles	13
Lakeland Woods Estates	2.2 miles	11
Shaffers Acres	2.3 miles	11
Hallock	2.9 miles	13
Bryan	3.4 miles	13
Jerrys First Addition	3.6 miles	13
Norlick Place	4.0 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 Pulaski	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6092663	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 1061577. 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.