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Penn Township
The complete chapter on this township from Census 1880 Morgan County Ohio, published in 1880. 96 words, covering 2 settlements.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsville | 12 | 7 | 3 | 530 |
| Westland | 8 | - | - | 404 |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 0 of the 2 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
96 wordsReproduced complete and unedited. The text is machine-read from a scan of the 1880 printing, so expect the errors a machine makes reading a century-old page: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the book's own.
Penn Township
the Kate Love Simpson Library (Morgan County Library System), McConnelsville, Ohio. Abbreviations used are explained in the introductry material to this booklet. The pairs of numbers before each family are the number of the residence and family living there respectively. For example, 1-1 is the first residence and first family on Mr Drake's route. 10-11 refers to the tenth residence
(Two or more families sometimes lived in the same Page numbers refér to the original census page.Mr Drake's handwriting was quite legible but, in many cases, the ink had faded badly making it difficult to read.
Provenance
Text from Census 1880 Morgan County Ohio, by Various, published 1880 and in the public domain in the United States. Digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.