Huntsville, OH

Huntsville is a village in Logan County, Ohio, roughly 50 miles northwest of Columbus. It covers about three-tenths of a square mile, all land, and the 2020 census counted 408 people. On the map it is a compact village in a largely rural county, with the village name doing more work than a big civic footprint. The place was laid out in 1846 and named for Aaron L. Hunt, the government surveyor who worked on its original survey. That is the whole local trick.

Huntsville incorporated in December 1865, and its early growth followed the settlement pattern of west-central Ohio rather than a single dramatic industry. The village's identity is tied to its small scale, its Logan County setting, and the roads connecting it to nearby communities. The local scoop is in the name itself: Huntsville is not a mystery town or a distant frontier outpost; it is a surveyed Ohio village whose name remembers the man who laid it out.