The Ohio National Guard has put the cost of helping New York City residents in the wake of Hurricane Sandy at just less than $765,000.

The Ohio Guard sent 132 guardsmen — 119 soldiers and 13 airmen — earlier this month to distribute food and water, and to keep the city’s army of taxis and first responders gassed up.

The state will seek reimbursement of the money from New York, which requested the help. Ohio Gov. John Kasich authorized the use of the Guard on Nov. 2.

The Springfield-based 269th Combat Communications Squadron of the Ohio Air National Guard converted a fuel truck from diesel to unleaded, and sent it and four airmen to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.

In all, the Ohio Air Guard sent five refueling trucks — each able to carry 1,200 gallons of fuel — at a cost of more than $77,600 to Brooklyn, where they and others ran nonstop for 10 days, filling up the vehicles of first responders, doctors, nurses, city employees and cabbies.

The local guardsmen worked 12-hour overnight shifts, Master Sgt. Jason LaPorte said. Proving that New York indeed is the city that never sleeps, they fueled up 1,600 cabs and limos one night alone.

“They were all very appreciative and very thankful,” LaPorte said.

The bulk of Ohio guardsmen came from an Akron-based transportation company of the Ohio Army National Guard, which sent a convoy of 70 trucks and 118 soldiers to New York at a cost of $687,000 to distribute food and water.

Ten states and the District of Columbia, stretching as far west as West Virginia, declared states of emergency beginning Oct. 29 as the super storm barreled inland.

The undertaking — Operation Guardian Big Apple — was especially notable for Mansfield’s 179th Airlift Wing, which deployed a C-27J Spartan cargo plane for the first time in a domestic mission. Units in Baltimore and Meridian, Miss., each also supplied one Spartan to transport personnel, vehicles and power generators to New York.

The 269th — a unit that sets up initial, tactical communications from scratch — at first was among just two communications units in the entire Air Guard tasked to provide Internet, voice and data capabilities for first responders in New York, said Col. Wade Rupper, of the Springfield-based 251st Cyber Engineering Installation Group, which the 269th is part of.

In the end, fuel seemed to be as much of a priority as communications, and the squad’s mission changed.

“It was good to be there and help those people out,” said LaPorte, who in 2005 deployed to New Orleans for a month with the 269th to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

In 2010, 40 members of the unit deployed to Afghanistan and other countries in Southwest Asia for the War on Terror.

The 14 total fuel trucks at Floyd Bennett Field, LaPorte said, pumped 300,000 gallons of gas.

“It’s what we do,” he said.