Shawtown, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1956 1986

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.

• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Mc Comb quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Mc Comb quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000

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; History of Hancock County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County, Its Townships, Towns ... Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Biographies, History of the Northwest Territory, History of Ohio, Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Pleasant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 53 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shawtown between 1906 and 1975: 52 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by David G. Furth, F. O. Grover, Langlois, T. H. 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.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Valsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.	1906	F. O. Grover	Near Black Swamp, Oberlin.
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ottawa Creek, at Benton Ridge, ~0.4 mi E of Benton Ridge, Blanchard township
	Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ottawa Creek, at Benton Ridge, ~0.4 mi E of Benton Ridge, Blanchard township
	Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ottawa Creek, at Benton Ridge, ~0.4 mi E of Benton Ridge, Blanchard township
	Campostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
	Erimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township
	Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)	1930	MB Trautman	Ottawa Creek, trib of the Blanchard River, S Blanchard Township

All 53 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shawtown in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Hancock County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1046163. 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.