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Crane Township
The complete chapter on this township from Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913. 218 words, covering 5 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglass (historical) | - | - | 8 | 288 |
| Mononcue | - | 3 | 6 | 274 |
| Smithville | - | - | 6 | 265 |
| South Park | - | - | 4 | 260 |
| Upper Sandusky | - | 61 | 5 | 261 |
Settlements in this township
5 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 5 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
218 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Crane Township
As Upper Sandusky, the county-seat town, is in Crane township, and as so much has already been written of the same, a lengthy account of it need not be given here.
This township derives its name from the Wyandot chieftain, Tarhe, or ''The Crane,'' and was organized in 1845. It lies wholly within the limits of the old Wyandot Reserve, and for that reason its lands, with the exception of those embraced by the original plat of the town of Upper Sandusky, were not placed in market until the autumn of 1845. Yet, a considerable number of men with their families, who are not mentioned in the sketch of Upper Sandusky, settled outside of the town limits, before the lands were offered for sale, but, for a few months at least they were only '¢squatters."'
- The surface of the township is level and the soil remarkably fertile. The increase of population has been gradual. Among its points of interest which are shown to strangers are the Old Mission church, the Nine Oaks, Crawford's battle ground, on Section 17, just north of Upper Sandusky,
Although the town of Upper Sandusky was clothed with corporate powers in the spring of 1848, it appears that no separate assessments regarding town and township were made until a number of years later.
Provenance
Text from Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913, in the public domain in the United States and 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.