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Twelve-Mile Square Reserve

This small area in northwest Ohio consists of only four townships, numbered 1 through 4. There is no associated range number. Exterior boundaries of the area are labeled.

SOURCE: National Mapping Program Technical Instructions Part 3 Attribute Coding Standards for Digital Line Graphs U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey National Mapping Division

APPENDIX 3.11.A Background Information on the Public Land Survey System

http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/nmpstds/acrodocs/dlg-3/3dlg0798.pdf



FEDERAL MILITARY RESERVATIONS (FORTS) Pioneer Ohio had two kinds of fortifications: those that were locally created, like Marietta’s Campus Martius, and those that were federally man- dated. Federal fort locations (the structure plus surrounding land), often pre- ceded original surveys, and their lands were integrated into the original surveys at a later time. Afew federal forts, however, were original surveys.

pp 54-55 Twelve Mile Square Reservation The Treaty of Greenville (1795) reserved to the United States a twelve mile square military reservation located at the rapids of the Maumee. This strategic location had been recognized by the British, who erected Ft. Miami on the north bank in 1794 to assist Ohio Indians to stop further encroachments upon their lands. As a condition of Jay’s Treaty (1794), the British abandoned the fort in the summer of 1796. During the War of 1812, General William Henry Harrison’sarmy erected Ft. Meigs on the south side of the Maumee just below the rapids, but long before that, surveys had been made within the Twelve Mile Square. By an act of Congress March 3, 1805, the Reserve was surveyed into four, six mile square townships, numbered clockwise with number one located in the southwest corner. Each township was partially subdivided into sections although many sections impinged upon private land claims. In 1816, sections fronting the river were subdivided into long lots of about 160 acres apiece. They are numbered 1 to 93 and called “River Tracts” in the State Auditor’s records. Also in 1816, town lots and out lots were to be laid out in a quantity not to exceed two entire sections. Included was the town of Perrysburg.

Written by Dr. George W. Knepper Cover art by Annette Salrin THE OFFICIAL OHIO LANDS BOOK This book is a publication of The Auditor of State 88 East Broad Street Columbus, Ohio 43216-1140 www.auditor.state.oh.us First paperback edition 2002 Printed in the United States of America http://www.auditor.state.oh.us/StudentResources/OhioLands/ohio_lands.pdf



C.W. Sherman, Original Land Subdivisions, Volume III of the Final Report of the Ohio Cooperative Topographic Survey, 1925,