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Tousaint, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Woodville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43469. The Survey maps it on the Pemberville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Tousaint within Sandusky County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tousaint (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Tousaint (historical), surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 printed 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

12,443 words on this township

History of Sandusky County, Ohio, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Woodville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The productive territory of VVoodville township has been redeemed from the famous Black Swamp, elsewhere described in this work. It lacks six sections in the northeast corner of being six miles square. This fractional piece was incorporated into Ottawa county at its organization in 1840. The surface is a monotonous plain, and was at one time covered by the waters of Lake Erie. The Portage River traverses the township in a northeasterly course, dividing it into almost equal parts. The Tousaint Creek in the northeast corner, and Sugar Creek in the southwest, run parallel with the Portage through the township, thus making the gradual slope of the plain toward Sandusky Bay. These streams are separated by almost imperceptible limestone ridges, which are the out-crops of the underlying strata of Niagara stone, whose western boundary is marked by a line running south from section eight, leaving the township and county in section six. Beyond this line, on the west, may be seen the out-croppings of the water-lime stone, which is very valuable for building-stone, and bids fair to rival at no far distant day, the more celebrated building-stone of southern Ohio. The Niagara stone is extensively quarried in the vicinity of Woodville village, a number of lime-kilns being located in section twenty-one, near the cemetery. In the same locality there-are several good sandbanks that were deposited here during the days of geological formation. The land along the line of these stony ridges is unproductive, and m most places is covered with a scant growth of grass, which affords pasturage to the numerous sheep and cattle annually raised in the township. The underlying strata are also apparent in the courses eroded by the streams, and in many places the exposures are many feet in thickness. Between the ridges the soil is the ordinary clay characteristic of the Black Swamp. Where there is much fallen timber and decaying vegetable matter the earth is a black loam, which gives the soil a muckish character. There are considerable areas of swamp land which, however, is being redeemed by a thorough system of drainage. Experience has demonstrated that the farmer makes most by raising mixed crops. Wheat is always good, and its production is encouraged by the ready market afforded at Woodville.

Passage source: History of Sandusky County, Ohio, published 1882.

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 Woodville Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 647 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 647 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tousaint (historical) between 1825 and 1975: 627 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albiet, P., Beatty, B. (Brett), Hoke, B. & Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.), Beatty, B. (Brett), Norrocky, M. J. (Michael J.) & Hoke, B. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1893United States Fish CommissionPortage River, at Oak Harbor
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.1825T. DrummondBanks of the Portage River
A photograph of the species Elsinoe veneta, not of this specimenElsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins1896Selby A. S.Elmore
A photograph of the species Puccinia malvacearum, not of this specimenPuccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.1906Raush E. W.Lindsey
A photograph of the species Armillaria mellea, not of this specimenArmillaria mellea var. glabra Gillet1907Fink, B.Woodville
A photograph of the species Hericium coralloides, not of this specimenHericium coralloides (Scop.) Pers.1907Bubak F.?Woodville
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Notropis buccatus, not of this specimenNotropis buccatus (Cope, 1865)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore

All 647 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Tousaint (historical): 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Limestone, General, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brush Wellman/ Elmore, OhioBerylliumPast Producer
Woodville Lime & Chemical QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Genoa QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Martin Marietta Refractories QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Ohio Lime Company QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Martin Marietta Refractories QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ohio Lime Co Woodville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
U.S. Gypsum Company Genoa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Woodville Lime and Chemical QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sandusky 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Woodville2.3 miles12
Gibsonburg Junction (historical)4.9 miles12
Busy Corners6.0 miles12
Gibsonburg7.5 miles12
Hessville9.3 miles12
Rollersville9.6 miles14
Lindsey9.7 miles12
Helena10.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067214. 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.