Cracked Buckeye

Ohio, then and now.

An old map or aerial photo of a real Ohio place, lined up with the same ground today. A prison that became the Arena District. A village that was bought out and erased. A race track that became a mall, then an Amazon warehouse. Farm fields that became Easton and Crocker Park. Downtown Columbus in 1887, drawn one building at a time for fire insurers.

Every picture is a real one, credited in the video and in the description: Sanborn maps from the Library of Congress, USGS topographic maps, city and county aerial surveys and the Ohio Statewide Imagery Program. Nothing is generated.

Every old map of your own town is free to look at on Cracked Buckeye, a public map of all 88 counties and 1,233 ZIP codes in Ohio.

Tell us where we're wrong, and tell us which place to do next. Corrections get checked and credited.

A small project in Gahanna, Ohio, sponsored by Open Shower Co. Not a government agency.