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Weymouth, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Medina Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44256. It stands on Plum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Medina quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
25,890 words on this townshipPioneer History of Medina County, published 1861 names this settlement in its chapter on Medina City Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In 1818 Seymour and Doan built a grist-mill adjoining the saw- mill in Weymouth. Mrs. Seymour is. now in her seventy-fifth year, and has been the mother of seven children, but two of whom are now living. She says it may be her life has been spared for greater trials, but God's will be done ; and she further says that whatever the Lord may see fit to place upon her she will try to bear patiently. Captain Lathrop Seymour died December. 19th} 1835.
Passage source: Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861.
The first Congregational Church was organized February 21st, 1S19, by Rev. William Hanford, Missionary from Connecticut, assisted by Rev. Simeon Woodruff. The Church was organized at the house of Isaac Barnes, and consisted of seven members, viz : Joseph Northrop, Charity Northrop, Isaac Barnes, Marther Barnes, Nira B. Northrop, Giles Barnes and John Barnes. All have died except Nira B. Northrop and Giles Barnes. Mr. Hanford, Missionary, occasionally preached in Medina, for four or five' years. Joseph Northrop was born in Brookfield, Connecticut, June 13th, 1766 ; Charity, his wife, was born in Stratford, Connecticut, February 6th, 1769. They removed from Brookfield to Cornwall, Connecticut, February, 1796, and from thence to Medina, as before mentioned, when there were but two families in the township ; but several others arrived soon after. Joseph Northrop first settled on the bank of Rocky River, north side of the east and west road, lot thirty. After seven years, he moved on to lot fifty-six, where he remained until his death, which occurred July 21st, 1843, in the seventyeighth year of his age. Charity, his wife, died December 26th, 1851, in the eighty-third year of her ag«. Isaac and Marther Barnes were from Camden, New York, and, after ten or twelve years, removed to Richland, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, and have since both died. Nira B. Northrop was born in Brookfield, Connecticut, December 8th, 1791, and still lives, on lot fifty-six, the same he bought in 1816. Giles and John Barns were from West Hartford, Connecticut. Giles now lives in Weymouth. John went to Hudson, first, from here, and thence to Richland, Michigan, and has recently died. Life is as a vapor; it appearethfor a short season, and then vanisheth away.
Passage source: Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861.
The. people built a town-house, where Episcopal service was conducted until that was also burned. The Congregational people built a meeting-house at Bagdad, and met there and at the village alternately, for a number of years. Rev. Lot B. Sullivan was the first minister of the Congregational Church, for one year, one-half of the time ; the other half in Wellington. Rev. Horace Smith was with Medina and Granger six months, as a Missionary, sent by the Hampshire Missionary Society, Massachusetts. Rev. S. V. Barnes came in 1827, by the aid of Aristarchus Champion, Esq., of Rochester, New York. His labors were abundant, resulting in a general revival in the east part of the towrship, and afterwards in the village and vicinity. He was the stated minister in Medina and Weymouth for a number of years. Religious, moral and temperance reform were gaining the ascendency ; schools were improving ; and every important enterprise was cherished, and urged onward to success. Thus we seemed to see the wilderness and solitary place literally budding and blossoming as the rose, and indeed becoming vocal with the praises of the Most High God.
Passage source: Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861.
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 Medina City Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 356 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 356 specimens collected within 10 miles of Weymouth between 1884 and 1975: 315 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Roberts, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | not recorded | |
 | Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link | 1894 | Watson, J.R. | Medina Co. |
 | Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth | 1896 | Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08] | [label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County] |
 | Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 | 1884 | unknown | Medina |
 | Halictus confusus confusus | 1885 | H. E. Summers | Medina |
 | Mougeotia genuflexa (Roth) C.Agardh | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Plum Creek |
 | Aquilegia canadensis L. | 1897 | Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05] | [label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio] |
 | Asclepias tuberosa subsp. interior Woodson | 1897 | Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea | The Western Reserve. Brunswick |
 | Culicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1897 | J. Hine | Medina |
 | Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray | 1897 | G. B. Ashcroft | Lester |
 | Hinea Townsend, 1916 | 1897 | J. Hine | Medina |
 | Platanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl. | 1897 | G. B. Ashcroft | Brunswick |
All 356 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Weymouth: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burbank Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weymouth in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weymouth | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds toppled around two dozen trees near Weymouth. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weymouth | - | Tree down at Nichols and Wilbur Roads. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weymouth | - | A large tree was blown down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remsen Corners | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| Windfall | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Sherman Corners | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Granger | 3.9 miles | 21 | |
| Brunswick | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Hinckley | 4.5 miles | 21 | |
| Youngs Corners | 4.6 miles | 21 | |
| Medina | 4.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061769. 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.