BlockWorstville, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paulding Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45880. It stands on Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Payne quadrangle.
Then and now
1914 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1914 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed 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.
- 1914 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Payne quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
16,022 words on this townshipHistorical Atlas of Paulding County Ohio, published 1892 names this settlement in its chapter on Paulding Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Joseph Tarault, proprietor of the stave mill at Worstvihe, Ohio, is a native of Canada, born in Peterborough in 1844. He is the eldest son of Edward and Anna (Savage) Tarault, natives of Montreal, and of French and Irish extraction. Joseph Tarault assisted his father in business during his youth and received only a meager education. When he was twelve years old his father died, and he was thrown upon his own resources. He worked for $6 per month, and at the age of twenty years went to Rochester, N. Y., where he worked as a day laborer. Later he purchased an interest in a factory which turned out staves for nail kegs, and this he continued for two years. Subsequently he sold his share and purchased a stave mill, which he operated for eight years, buying meantime other mills. He met with several losses by fire, and during eight years rebuilt his mill five times. He bought 1,000 acres of land, but at present owns but 360 acres near Elliston, Ottawa county, Ohio. In 1883 Mr. Tarault removed to Paulding county and purchased a saw mill of John Worst, the founder of Worstville. With this he bought 4,000 acres of land, 400 of which are well under cultivation at the present time. Mr. Tarault deals in staves, heading and native lumber, and his goods are in great demand. He manufactures 3,000,000 staves annually and 3,500,000 feet of lumber. In connection with this business, he is interested in farming and had a corn field of 125 acres in 1891. He is a selfmade man, and what he has is owing to his own activity and industry. He owns much valuable city property in Toledo, of which city he is now a resident, and is one of the prominent and influential citizens of the community in which he resides. Politically he is a republican, though in no sense is he an office seeker. Mr. Tarault was married to Miss Maria Saddler, the daughter of John Saddler, in 1865, and they have one child, Lillie, the wife of George Harmon. Mrs. Tarault is a native of Canada, and was born in 1846. She is a lady favorably known and is a member of the United Brethren church.
Passage source: Historical Atlas of Paulding County Ohio, published 1892.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,164 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,164 specimens collected within 10 miles of Worstville between 1893 and 1973: 1,164 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., C L CLARK FROM HOMER PRICE, Collector(s): Harold H. Bailey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Epitheca cynosura (Say, 1840) | 1943 | H. Price | Paulding Township, Baily gravel pit |
 | Gomphus graslinellus Walsh, 1862 | 1943 | H. Price | Klinger Gravel Pit, Jackson Township |
 | Notropis ariommus (Cope, 1867) | 1893 | Kirsch, P. (Philip) | Maumee River, 2.5 mi above Antwerp, ~3.2 mi W of Antwerp, Carryall township |
 | Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1909 | Collector(s): Harold H. Bailey | Payne |
 | Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1910 | Price, H. (Homer) | Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1912 | Price, H. (Homer) | Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Geothlypis trichas (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1915 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Passerherbulus henslowii (Audubon, 1829) | 1915 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1915 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808 | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne within corporation, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
All 1,164 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Briceton | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Payne | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Arena (historical) | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Tipton | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Latty | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Sophia (historical) | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Dague | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Follmer (historical) | 5.5 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 Worstville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21197580 | 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 1049347. 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.
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