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

Rawson, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45881. It stands on Tiderishi Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rawson quadrangle. 567 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Rawson within Hancock County

Population over time

2 figures

Rawson fell from 570 to 567 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	570
2020	567	-3 (-1%)

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rawson, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Rawson, surveyed 1907

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

15,761 words on this township

History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Wenman Wade was of that class of robust and pushing frontiersman, who pave the way for a better civilization and prosperous country, by boldly pushing out into the wilderness, and enduring the hardships and privations of pioneer life uncomplainingly. Honest, industrious and contented. Mr. Wade was one who enjoyed the confidence of the community in which he lived. He held the otiice of Justice of the Peace, and in entitled to the distinction of being the first person in the county whose election was contested, as the following notice will show:

Passage source: History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

The first church in the township was built by the United Brethren, and is known as the Clymer Church. There are now eleven church buildings in the township, which certainly speaks well for the morals of the inhabitants. They are owned as follows: United Brethren two. Evangelical two, United Presbyterian one, Methodist p]piscopal one, Methodist Protestant two. Christian Union two, Church of God -one. These buildings are all substantial, and many of them really tasteful in their construction and finish.

The town of Kawsou, on the Lake Erie & Western Railway, was laid out in 1855 by Frederick Keller and G. J. Kelley, on the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of section thirteen, and the north-east corner of the east half of the south-east quarter of section fourteen, and originally comprised but fifty-four lots. The town was named in honor of L. Q. Rawson, of Fremont, Ohio, who was then President of the railroad.

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 Union Township - it names this place 10 more 10 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 619 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 619 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rawson between 1883 and 1973: 602 Animalia, 17 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, CL & LC Hubbs, Collector(s): David E. Ferguson 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
Notropis boops Gilbert, 1884	1883	Kirsch, P. H	Blanchard River, Findlay
Bombus lucorum (Linnaeus, 1761)	1886	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus bohemicus Seidl, 1838	1887	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1893	P. Kirsch	Blanchard River, Findlay, Ohio
Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	P. Kirsch	Blanchard River, Findley, Ohio
Regina septemvittata (Say, 1825)	1893	not recorded	Findlay, Blanchard River
Bombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1763)	1895	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Arlington
Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1905	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)	1906	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus variabilis (Cresson, 1872)	1907	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)	1911	not recorded	UrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River

All 619 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rawson in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawson	$100,000	Trees, power lines and power poles were downed, some on roads and houses. Trees were also downed approximately ten miles northeast of Rawson near Findlay
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawson	$15,000	Numerous large limbs and radio antennas blown down from severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawson	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawson	$7,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawson	$2,000	A few large limbs reported down.
May 2006	Hail	Rawson	-	Nickel size hail was observed.
July 2000	Hail	Rawson	-	Dime size hail was reported five miles southwest of Rawson.
August 2000	Hail	Rawson	-	Dime size hail was reported five miles southwest of Rawson near the Bluffton Airport.
June 2000	Hail	Rawson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Mount Cory	2.5 miles	12
Cannonsburg	3.0 miles	12
Benton Ridge	3.2 miles	9
Cordelia	4.1 miles	12
Jenera	5.1 miles	14
Moffitt (historical)	5.5 miles	9
Lewisville (historical)	6.4 miles	9
West Park	7.1 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 Rawson	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2276184	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 1044873. 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.

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.