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

Rice, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45831. The Survey maps it on the Ayersville quadrangle.

Rice within Putnam County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rice, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Rice, surveyed 1909

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

902 words on this township

History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Wisterman is also a small hamlet in this township. It was platted in 1883 by E. W. Dimock, for W. S. Daly, E. R. Eastman and Jane James, the proprietors. This town failed to materialize to any great extent and at present is merely a stop on the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad. Rice was once a postoffice for the convenience of country people, but at present is only an interurban stop.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

Continental, first called Marice City, was laid out and platted on March 23, 1888, by George Skinner for Gen. A. V. Rice. It was named in honor of the General's daughter, Mary Rice. At the time when the Nickel Plate railroad was constructed through Putnam county the land in the southeastern part of Monroe township was one vast body of unbroken wilderness and swamp. The Rice road improvements were constructed in 1865 through the present site of Marice City and made this land productive and, with the intersection of two railroads, a very desirable location for a town. In 1888 the Buckeye Stave Company erected their stave factory on their addition which they had laid out the same year (James Belford, surveyor). In the same year Dr. B. D. Sparling" employed A. Overbeck to lay out and plat his first addition. In 1887 D. \Y. Seitz laid out and platted an addition for Gen. A. V. Rice, and the following year the same surveyor platted a second addition for Dr. B. D. Sparling. Mr. Seitz also platted a second addition for the Buckeye Stave Company, in 1890, and the same year sub-divided outlot No. I of Rice's addition, for the district assessor, H. B. Pierce. In 1895 ^''- Seitz also platted a sub-division for W. H. Miller.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

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 Monroe Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 46 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rice between 1893 and 1956: 46 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by H. Price, P. Kirsch, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 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
Lampsilis ventricosa (Barnes, 1823)	1893	not recorded	Blanchard River
Sympetrum internum Montgomery, 1943	1956	H. Price	Palmer Township, Miller City tile pond
Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)	1893	not recorded	Cloverdale, Auglaize River
Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Noturus flavus Rafinesque, 1818	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Cloverdale, Ohio
Campostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)	1941	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wascko, H. L. (Harold L.)	Auglaize River, Sec 21 of Perry township, ~1.1 mi E of Cloverdale, Perry township
Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758	1941	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wascko, H. L. (Harold L.)	Auglaize River, Sec 21 of Perry township, ~1.1 mi E of Cloverdale, Perry township
Dorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)	1941	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wascko, H. L. (Harold L.)	Auglaize River, Sec 21 of Perry township, ~1.1 mi E of Cloverdale, Perry township
Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1941	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wascko, H. L. (Harold L.)	Auglaize River, Sec 21 of Perry township, ~1.1 mi E of Cloverdale, Perry township

All 46 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 Rice: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Glandorf Tile Co Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rice in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 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
May 2019	Hail	Rice	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Wisterman	3.5 miles	11
Continental	3.8 miles	12
North Creek	4.0 miles	12
Hartsburg	4.3 miles	12
Hector	5.0 miles	11
Kieferville	5.8 miles	11
Dupont	6.5 miles	12
Franconia (historical)	7.5 miles	12

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 Rice	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134173	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 1061598. 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.