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

Riblet, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sandusky Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44833. The Survey maps it on the Crestline quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Riblet within Richland County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

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 Riblet (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Riblet (historical), surveyed 1915

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

3,533 words on this township

History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Sandusky Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

When the first settlers entered Sandusky Township, it was one of the best huntinggrounds in the State. All kinds of wild game was so plenty that the hunter could supply his table with meat almost without stepping outside his cabin door ; had it not been for this, they would have suffered greatly for provisions the first two years, as but little could be planted the first year, on account of the difficulty of making an opening in the gi'eat woods, and, before the first crop of corn grew to maturity, says Mr. Snyder, one of the earliest settlers, " the squirrels came by hundreds and thousands and took it all."

Passage source: History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., published 1880.

It is a difficult matter to get the names and locations of the earliest settlers in the township, as nearly all have gone to their long homes or moved away ; but the following persons were among the earliest settlers, and, it is believed, were the earliest in the township. Some of these settled in what is now Crawford County, ])ut some are known to have settled within the present limits of Sandusky Township, as at present constituted. The first were Christian Snyder and Jacob Fisher, who came in 1817, and settled about two miles southwest of the present town of Crestline. Following these were John Doyle, 1818 ; Joseph Russell, 1818 ; Louis Lyberger, 1819 ; Daniel 3Iiller, 1818 ; Henry Hersner, 1819, and John Reed, 1818. Of these, Louis Lyberger and Hemy Hersner are known to have settled within the present limits of Sandusky Township, probably on Section 23. The first settlement, therefore, occurred near the center of the township. The others settled in what is now Crawford County ; and

The early settlers who arrived after those named were Mordecai Harding, Section 36 ; Daniel Riblet,came in 1831 and settled on Section 25 ; John Brookwalter, Section 26 ; Christopher Fletcher, Section 25 ; Jacob Haflich, 1828, Section 24; George Johnson, Section 13, 1820 ; Carson, Section 13 ; Andrew Taylor, Section 1 ; Rev. Culler, Section 13 ; George Walters, Section 12. The Hardings and Snyders were among the first settlers in the southern part of the township. Daniel Riblet was a prominent man in the township and count}- ; was Justice of the Peace eighteen years and sei-ved two terms in the Legislature - from 1840 to 1844. He was from Union County, Penn., and died November 6, 1865. For many years, he kept what was well known as the Riblet House, at a point on the Mansfield & Bucyrus road, about half-way between Ontario and Gallon. This was a stopping-place for the stages. The house was first built of logs, afterward a frame was added. It is yet standing and is occupied as a dwelling. A post office was established here while the stages were running - one of the first, if not the first, in the township; and the militia musters frequently occurred here, making it altogether an important point.

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 Sandusky Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Riblet (historical) between 2019 and 2019, burning about 14 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	4

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 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15304
13 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15306
13 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15305
13 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15307

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 640 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 640 specimens collected within 10 miles of Riblet (historical) between 1835 and 1975: 486 Plantae, 125 Animalia, 29 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Berra, T. (Tim), Chase, H. (Hazel), Colby, J. 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
Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl	1895	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield.
Alisma subcordatum Raf.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Carex stricta Lam.	1835	Herb. of E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
Erigeron bellidifolius Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson,E. 5229	[USA, Ohio] Mansfield, Ohio.
Penthorum sedoides L.	1835	E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
Verbascum thapsus L.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Achillea millefolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Angelica atropurpurea L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield

All 640 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
East Crestline	2.2 miles	13
Five Corners	2.8 miles	13
Millsboro	3.3 miles	13
Maybee	4.3 miles	14
Richland (historical)	5.1 miles	13
Bethlehem	5.7 miles	13
Ontario	5.7 miles	14
Toledo Junction	5.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1084134. 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.