Upper Sandusky, Ohio

This curated hub for Wyandot County, Ohio brings together the page's documented record links, visible map or image evidence where published, and routes to related local records.

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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.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Upper Sandusky quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Upper Sandusky quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Upper Sandusky quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000

Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913 names this settlement in its chapter on Crane Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 261 specimens collected within 10 miles of Upper Sandusky between 1885 and 1975: 243 Animalia, 15 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Acker, G., Allen, J. M., Blyth & Katz 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
	Puccinia caricina DC.	1902	T. Bonser
	Tranzschelia fusca (Wallr.) Dietel	1902	Thos. Bonser
	Hister abbreviatus Fabricius, 1775	1885	not recorded	Crane
	Margarinotus faedatus (J.E.LeConte, 1845)	1885	not recorded	Crane
	Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Bonser Thos.	Wyandot Co.
	Phyllachora vulgata Theiss. & Syd.	1900	Thos. Bouser	Big Spring Prairie
	Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822	1901	Thos A. Bonser	Carey, S. of
	Puccinia eatoniae Arthur	1901	Bouser Thomas?	Wyandot Co.
	Puccinia fusca Wallr.	1901	Bouser Thomas	Wyandot Co.
	Puccinia podophylli Schwein.	1901	Bowser Thomas	Wyandot Co.
	Uncinula macrospora Peck	1901	T. A. Bonser
	Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1915	Goodrich, Calvin	Upper Sandusky

All 261 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Upper Sandusky: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Wyandot County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upper Sandusky in 61 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 39 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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 Wyandot County

3 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 6 issues spread across its run from 1845 to 1853, 29,928 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065414. 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.