123 topographic sheets and 26 fire insurance atlases across 4 places.
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19 National Register listings, of which 1 are National Historic Landmarks · 43 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1890 to 1914 · the 1869 county history tells 1 stories and names 19 people · people the book names include Nathaniel Massie Michael Baldwin (Athens Township, 1869) (machine-read).
Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service
A captivity, a drowning, a famine, a man scalped clearing his lot in 1789. These are passages from History of Athens County, Ohio : and, Incidentally, of the Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta, with Personal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, Narratives of Pioneer Adventures, Etc., written while people who remembered the events were still alive, and each one opens the section it comes from.
fired at and wounded the old bear, and then, wishing to see his dog kill one of the cubs, laid down his gun and. hissed his dog on to attack the cub - the old bear and other cub beating a retreat. Boyles, becoming interested in the fight between his dog and the cub, had approached near them, when he was disagreeably startled by seeing the old bear return, brought by the cries of the cub, and place herself between him and his gun.
Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.
| Photograph | Property | Type | Listed | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Athens B & O Train Depot | building | 1983 | 83001944 |
 | Athens State Hospital Cow Barn | building | 1978 | 78002003 |
 | Beasley Building | building | 1982 | 82001358 |
 | Blackwood Covered Bridge | structure | 1978 | 78002004 |
 | Clester, Joseph, House | building | 1980 | 80002940 |
 | Dew House | building | 1978 | 78002006 |
 | Federalton | building | 1976 | 76001369 |
 | Herrold, Thomas Jefferson, House and Store | building | 1980 | 80002937 |
| Hocking Valley Coal Company Town Historic District | district | 2007 | 07000579 | |
 | Kidwell Covered Bridge | structure | 1977 | 77001042 |
 | Manasseh Cutler Hall, Ohio University | building | 1966 | 66000604 |
 | Mount Zion Baptist Church | building | 1980 | 80002938 |
 | Palos Covered Bridge | structure | 1977 | 77001041 |
 | Savage-Stewart House | building | 1980 | 80002939 |
 | Sheltering Arms Hospital | building | 1982 | 82003542 |
| Stedman-Shafer Grocery Warehouse Building | building | 2020 | 100005540 | |
 | Stuart's Opera House | building | 1978 | 78002007 |
| Weethee Historic District | district | 1980 | 80002941 | |
 | White's-Vale Mill | building | 1982 | 82003543 |
Athens County holds 3 covered bridges on the National Register, more than any other property type here. Each is a listed structure with a federal nomination on file.
| Blackwood Covered Bridge | Listed 1978, 0 map sheets show this crossing |
| Kidwell Covered Bridge | Listed 1977, 0 map sheets show this crossing |
| Palos Covered Bridge | Listed 1977, 0 map sheets show this crossing |
Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.
Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 10 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.
![[Map of W. Dall's lots in Athens County, Washington County, and Gallia County, Ohio], Boston Public Library - undated](assets/dpla_f40f88860d51649d.jpg)
Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. 557 frames touch this county; the selection below spreads across the decades of flights (at most four per year), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.
The "who lived here, by year" answer: pre-1929 public-domain directory volumes naming the county's people, machine-read and searchable as text.
The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that watched its rivers, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.
Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.
Every Sanborn volume opens with a printed index naming the town's mills, tanneries, hotels and works by proprietor. Those indexes were read off the scanned sheets by machine and then matched to each other, so a business surveyed four times appears here once, with the years it survived. 7 of these 43 were named in more than one atlas. Each carries a crop of the line it was read from: the spelling is the recogniser's and the 1880s lithographer's, and the scan behind it is the proof.
Opera House
1900 to 1914, named in 4 atlases
Appears in 1900 1900 1912 1914
Read elsewhere as Opera House.
Church
1900 to 1910, named in 3 atlases
Read elsewhere as Free will Baptist Church; Baptist Church (Negro).
Church
1900 to 1907, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Presbyterian Church.
Mill
1900 to 1907, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Riverside Roller.mills.ss.
Depot
named once, in the 1907 atlas
Appears in 1907
On the National Register as Hocking Valley Coal Company Town Historic District
Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 355 of them, burning about 630 acres. 5 started naturally and 10 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 134 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 88 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The five largest, by the area the report gives. Two of them were set deliberately.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 54 acres | Wayne National Forest | BURTON |
| 12 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 822 |
| 9 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15542 |
| 15 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 March 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Wayne National Forest | PONY |
| 9 May 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 14 acres | Wayne National Forest | FRIDAY NIGHT |
| 27 February 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 13 acres | Wayne National Forest | POSTON SALEM |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 447 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 23 injuries and about $13,355,250 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 220 |
| Hail | 93 |
| Flood | 69 |
| Flash Flood | 53 |
| Tornado | 4 |
| Lightning | 4 |
| Funnel Cloud | 2 |
| High Wind | 1 |
| Heavy Rain | 1 |
The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Nelsonville | 1 killed, $250,000 | Small streams across the northern portion of the county flooded. ||An elderly couple was driving home along Linscott Run. This is a small tributary to Federal Creek near Amesville. Close to home, the husband decided to stop his vehicle and wait out some high water. Their vehicle became surrounded by rising water. The couple made an attempt to walk to nearby higher ground. The wife was using a walker due to recent hip surgery. She slipped and the husband could not hold on to her. The current swept her away. The fire department located her body around dawn on the 5th, about a half mile downstream. The husband was helped to safety by neighbors using a garden hose. Route 550 was also flooded in Amesville. ||Several streets in Nelsonville were flooded including along Dorr Run and Pleasant View Road. Large dump rocks, used in the bypass construction, were even moved by the water. A wall to a garage was knocked over by the water. A house foundation was damaged.||A vehicle was flooded along Margaret Creek near Albany. The occupants were unhurt at a nearby home when the local fire department arrived. |
| August 2000 | High Wind | Athens | 8 hurt, $20,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph caused tree damage and collapsed a county fair tent. The tent collapsed during the swine judging, with as many as 400 people inside. Many of those caught in the tent, appeared stunned, but calm. Eight people received minor injuries. No animals were hurt. One witness said., " It was the best example I've seen of everyone working together." The nearby anemometer at the Scalia Lab on the Ohio University campus reported a wind gust of 41 mph. In a related incident, an indirect death occurred while a 74 old man lost control of his tractor and it overturned. He was trying to take shelter from the midday storm. He was 60 feet from his residence on Hooper Ridge Road, near Amesville. |
| September 2010 | Tornado (EF2) | Kimberly | 7 hurt, $750,000 | A tornado touchdown was along Kimberly Road, about 4 miles from Nelsonville. The tornado reached maximum intensity along Matheny Road to State Route 691. Matheny Road is also called York Township Road 269. Damage was concentrated along Matheny Road and State Route 691. The low level circulation was evident in the damage along Matheny Road. Debris was strewn one way on the south side of the road, then in the opposite direction on the north side. One resident said, you could see stuff flying through the air. Then the noise got real loud and we ran into the house and into a closet. The house was just shaking. Several mobile homes were completely destroyed. Yet, some of these mobile homes were poorly anchored or not anchored at all. Many large softwood trees were uprooted or snapped at their trunks. Reports were received of several cows being lifted by the tornado. A hay bale weighing 1800 pounds was lofted into the air and set back down. The maximum wind gusts were estimated at 120 to 130 mph. A total of 7 people were injured. About 13 homes were destroyed, with dozens of other homes damaged.||Since 1950, this is only the second confirmed tornado in Athens County. The previous tornado was a F1 during May of 1980. However, prior to 1950, 3 tornadoes have been reported in Athens County, back in July of 1896, April of 1922, and June of 1937. The June 1937 tornado killed 3. The storm in 1896 was reported in Glouster. However, historical accounts also describe a tornado in the late 1800s that destroyed a large grove of sycamore trees in the city of Athens. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floodwood | 6 hurt, $2,000,000 | The upstream tornado lifted, as the rear flank downdraft of the rotating thunderstorm took over. This downburst became the dominant feature in The Plains and around the community of Athens. The width of the damage path widened to about a quarter of a mile. Winds were estimated as high as 100 mph in The Plains. As the storm approached, soccer players, fans, coaches, and referees took shelter in the locker rooms, the wrestling rooms, and the lounge for teachers at Athens County High School. About a dozen adults took shelter in the concession stand. A few of these parents were injured when the roof was heavily damaged. The light poles, the press box, and the scoreboard were also damaged or destroyed. On the roof of the high school, large air condition units were blown off and damaged parked cars. Several homes were destroyed or damaged. Roof damage was widespread. As the wind reached the eastern sections of the town of Athens, the maximum wind gusts were estimated at 80 to 100 mph. The last significant damage was to an automobile service and towing garage. The total distance of this downburst was on the order of 10 miles. A total of 6 people were injured. About 17 homes were destroyed, many others were damaged.||Including both this downburst and the tornado, Ohio Emergency Managment Agency categorized around 30 homes as destroyed, 51 homes with major damage, and 83 homes with minor damage. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coolville Station | 2 hurt, $1,500 | In Coolville, a tree fell onto a house along Banshee Road. Two individuals sitting on the porch at the time of the storm were injured. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | North Portion | $4,000,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nelsonville | $2,500,000 | Numerous trees or large branches fell across the county. Nearly 24,000 customers lost electricity. Damage assessment included 1 home destroyed, 4 with major damage, and 3 with minor damage across the county. The public infrastructure damage assessment was around $580,000. |
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waterloo-Athens | $500,000 | A downburst occured at the intersection of County Roads 9 and 22. Winds to 80 MPH (69 kts) rolled three mobile homes from their foundations destroying each. One garage and a house suffered damage. Residents claimed there had been a tornado but a survey indicated straight-line winds from a microburst as the most likely cause. |
| March 1997 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $500,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Flash Flood | Buchtel | $250,000 | Flooding took place along streams in the northern reaches of the county. Some of the streams affected include Snow Fork, plus Sunday and Monday Creeks. Chauncey was one of the hardest hit areas as waters from Sunday Creek were slowed by the swollen Hocking River. Other communities that received flooding included Nelsonville, Glouster, Hollister, Trible, and Doanville. The stream flooding lead to minor river flooding along the Hocking River. The county emergency management agency listed one single family dwelling and 1 mobile home destroyed for the whole flood event. Twentyfive dwellings had major damage. |
| May 1980 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Flood | Albany | $200,000 | Small streams such as Dutch Creek began to flood near midday, then became more widespread during the evening hours. About 20 county roads were closed. Several water rescues were done, along roads that had not yet been shut down. Vehicles stalled in the flood waters of Federal Creek near Amesville was one such incident. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athens | $200,000 | Numerous large trees and branches were blown down in the city. The Emergency Management Agency reported 2 houses were severely damaged by fallen trees. Trees also fell across roads, sidewalks, driveways, and yards. Electrical power was lost. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Nelsonville | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athens | $150,000 | A gust to 64 mph was measured. The Ohio University campus lost 25 trees to the wind. The trees damaged a baseball field fence and crushed one truck. |
| February 2000 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $100,000 | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Broadwell | $50,000 | Hail as large as tennis balls fell. Vehicles were dented. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Nelsonville | $50,000 | Numerous small streams overflowed and blocked roads during the daylight hours on the 19th. The Hocking River then caused flooding into the 21st. Damage was mainly to roads and a few culverts. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Nelsonville | $50,000 | Rain amounts of 2 to 2.5 inches fell in about 2 hours. A spotter reported 1.6 inches in an hour. The 24 hour rain total was 3.5 inches at Nelsonville. The town of Athens was just south of the heaviest rain with a 24 hour rain total of 1.8 inches. Small streams flooded and closed several roads. The stream gauge at Doanville on the lower reaches of Monday Creek rose 10 to 11 feet in a few hours. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $50,000 | Winds were measured at 58 mph at Ohio University in Athens and trees were uprooted in Brookville and other locations. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albany | $50,000 | Trees were downed. A barn silo was damaged. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $40,000 | Numerous locations had trees or large branches blown down. Sheriff reported over 20 roads blocked by debris. A house and a mobile home were damaged by fallen trees in the Plains vicinity. |
| April 2001 | Lightning | Stewart | $40,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Flash Flood | Northwest Portion | $35,000 | Rains of 1.5 to 2.0 inches fell in less than 24 hours, in the Nelsonville to Trimble area. The rains occurred from the 10th into the 11th. Monday and Sunday Creeks flooded roads, surrounded the most vulnerable dwellings, and forced schools to close. Backwater from the rising Hocking River kept Sunday Creek in the Chauncey vicinity, over roads and around dwellings through Thursday morning the 12th. The Hocking River crested just below flood stage, at 19.5 feet around 2100E on the 12th. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Plains | $30,000 | Numerous tree limbs were snapped. Commercial signs were damaged. Large branches fell onto a few homes. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Jacksonville | $25,000 | Creeks flooded and closed roads, including Kasler Creek. |
| March 2015 | Flood | Albany | $25,000 | Several roads were closed by overflowing streams. This included portions of State Route 681 and 56. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athens | $25,000 | Trees were blown down along Radford Road and in the University Heights Drive vicinity. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grosvenor | $25,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Athens | $25,000 | Large hail dented a few vehicles. |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $25,000 | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Mineral | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albany | $20,000 | The unofficial wind equipment at Alexander Elementary School measured a gust to 82 mph. Damage occurred to the ball fields. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athens | $20,000 | Trees or large branches fell onto power lines. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hollister | $15,000 | Wind damage consistent with a microburst caused tree damage near Jacksonville. The damage started near Taylor Ridge Road where several trees were uprooted. A section of roof from a single family home was removed. The microburst winds traveled southeast from there, through Jacksonville, were several trees were uprooted along Sunday Creek. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albany | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Athens | $10,000 | An EF1 tornado with maximum winds up to 100 mph touched down near Angel Ridge Road in Athens County. The tornado tracked east-northeast crossing Gura Road, Long Run Road, and North Coolville Ridge Road before lifting just past Kincade Road. Damage was limited to snapped and uprooted trees and some snapped power poles along the path, with the worst damage occurring in a 300 yard wide swath along Long Run Road. This is the seventh documented tornado in Athens County and the first since 2018. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athens | $10,000 | Multiple large limbs and a pine tree were snapped on the Ohio University campus. The outfield fence at the softball field was also blown down. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | New England | $10,000 | US 50 was closed near Guysville due to a combination of flooding along creeks and streams that drain into the Hocking River and a land slide near State Route 329. |
| October 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Kimberly | $10,000 | A very weak tornado touched down near Nelsonville, along Cullison Road, where it lofted a trampoline into power lines and blew around some loose pieces of sheet metal. Additional damage occurred near the end of the path, along Kimberly Road. Here, several trees were uprooted or snapped, with one falling onto a house, penetrating the roof. The survey found all of the trees that fell were diseased or weakly rooted. Also in this area, a metal carport was tossed into the woods. The estimated maximum wind speed was 55 mph. A video of the tornado was taken near Cullison Road, showing a rotating funnel above the ground, with the trampoline and sheet metal being picked up and thrown as it passed over. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canaanville | $10,000 | Part of the roof was blown off a house along Willow Creek Road. |
| November 2017 | Flash Flood | Hunterdon | $10,000 | Multiple roads across the northern and eastern parts of the county were covered with water as creeks and streams came out of their banks. Flooding occurred along Congress Run closing Congress Run Road. Greens Run flooded, closing State Route 685. State Routes 329 and 550 were closed near Amesville due to flooding on Federal Creek and Opossum Run. Flooding along Federal Creek, Two Mile Run and Rowell Run caused a closure on State Route 144. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Nelsonville | $10,000 | Roads were flooded and closed, including State Route 356, 56, and 690. Rockcamp Creek flooded near Mineral. No dwellings were flooded. |
| April 2014 | Flood | Vanderhoot | $10,000 | Many small streams overflowed and closed sections of roads. Examples from the state higway department included portions of Route 56, 144, 329, 356. and 682. No structures were flooded. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nelsonville | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down on Edward Street. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athens Ohio Univ Arp | $10,000 | A gust to 59 mph was measured from a compass heading of 320 degrees. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albany | $10,000 | Trees fell onto power lines. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athens | $10,000 | Trees fell onto power llines, knocking out the electricity. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Jacksonville | $10,000 | The small feeder streams into Sunday Creek and Federal Creek overflowed causing minor street flooding. Sunday Creek rose 8 to 10 feet but remained mostly within its banks. Route 33 in Nelsonville was flooded. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Plantsville | $10,000 | Streams along Route 550 flooded roads. The headwaters of the Middle Fork of the Shade River flooded an animal shelter between Athens and Shade. Fencing and a barn were damaged. About a dozen dogs had to be rescued from the water. There were no reports of water getting into homes. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nelsonville | $10,000 | Trees and large branches were knocked down. One tree fell across a house. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | The Plains | $10,000 | Overflowing streams, such as Hamley Run, blocked roads. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Athens | $10,000 | Winds also gusted to 42 mph at Ohio University. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Nelsonville | $10,000 | Rains of 2 to 3.5 inches fell in less than 3 hours, in a northwest to southeast corridor, along the Hocking River Valley. An automatic gauge south of Nelsonville measured 3.5 inches of rain. In the city of Athens, 3.4 inches of rain was recorded. The Plains measured 3.1 inches. Streams flooded roads in such communities as Athens, The Plains, and Chauncey. The York Fire Department went to the aid of motorists stalled in water along township roads. No flooding of dwellings was known. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millfield | $10,000 | Several large tree limbs were snapped off. A porch was damaged by a fallen branch. |
| May 2001 | Flash Flood | South Portion | $10,000 | Streams feeding the Middle Branch of the Shade River flooded around Shade, Garden, and Pratts Fork. |
| March 2008 | Flood | East Clayton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athens | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Trimble | $10,000 | no account filed |
The Survey's mineral resources record lists 13 workings inside this county. 5 still produce and 8 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
| Commodity | Workings |
|---|---|
| Sand and Gravel, Construction | 7 |
| Limestone, General | 2 |
| Clay | 2 |
| Stone, Crushed/Broken | 2 |
The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond No. 1 Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Diamond Quarry Number 2 | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Diamond Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Number 2 Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Nutter Brothers Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Nutter Brothers Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Plant 2 Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Gravel Plant Number 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Kimberly Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Kimberly Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lake Hope Asphalt S&G Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Nelsonville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Nelsonville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Museum specimens collected inside this county and catalogued with a date and a place: 1,630 of them, by kingdom 1,366 animalia, 172 plantae, 82 fungi, 4 unrecorded, 4 protozoa. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by INHS, MSU, Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), MIN, OSU, DBG among others, and each settlement page carries the specimens collected near it.
The oldest of them. A specimen proves something was collected on that day; its absence proves nothing.
| Photograph | Year | Species | Kingdom | Where | Collector | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1831 | Myosotis laxa Lehm. | Plantae | Orange Twp. | C. H. Jones | NY 2433693 |
 | 1896 | Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | Chromista | not stated | F.L. Stevens | ILL ILL00096685 |
 | 1896 | Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813 | Fungi | Athens County | F. L. Stevens | ILL ILL00066678 |
 | 1896 | Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc. | Plantae | Caananville | Selby, A.D. | CM CM241750 |
 | 1898 | Aristida longespica var. longespica | Plantae | Pleasanton | Selby, A.D. | CM CM233506 |
 | 1898 | Perlesta Banks, 1906 | Animalia | not stated | N. Roberts | INHS Insect Collection INHS Insect Collection 1085327 |
 | 1898 | Quercus minor (Marshall) Sarg. | Plantae | Pleasanton | Selby, A.D. | CM CM432040 |
 | 1898 | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | Plantae | Palos | Selby, A.D. | CM CM241496 |
History of Athens County, Ohio : and, Incidentally, of the Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta, with Personal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, Narratives of Pioneer Adventures, Etc. devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 4 are reproduced here in full. Each row shows the township's own shape and where it lies in the county, drawn from the Census Bureau's boundary. Which settlements belong to which township is computed from that same boundary, not taken from the book.
| Shape and position in the county | Township | Settlements in it | Length | Sections |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Township | Chase, Fisher, Fullview Heights, Hebardville, Pleasanton, University Heights | 25,774 words | 21 | |
| Ames Township | Amesville, Federal | 60,591 words | 96 | |
| Athens Township | Armitage, Athens, Beachwood Lake Estates, Brookville, Clearview, Elliottville, Fairway Oaks, Grosvenor, Highland Park Estates, La Mar Heights, Longview Heights, Marydale, Pine Grove Heights, Rolling Hill Acres, Rolling Hills, The Plains, Valley View, Wonder Hills | 329,501 words | 80 | |
| Waterloo Township | Carbondale, Five Points, Hocking, Ingham, Luhrig, Mineral, New Mansfield, New Marshfield | 73,506 words | 85 |
Everyone History of Athens County, Ohio : and, Incidentally, of the Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta, with Personal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, Narratives of Pioneer Adventures, Etc. stops to write about, with the section that describes them. Among them are the men who founded the place and governed the Territory. Each name opens the passage itself, in the words of 1869.
Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the watercourse or landform it stands on and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 4 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.
Athens township · 45701 · On Chandlers Hill · Athens quadrangle
21 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Fire insurance: 8 atlases
Trimble township · 45732 · On West Branch Sunday Creek · Corning quadrangle
14 sheets, 1911 to 2002
Fire insurance: 6 atlases
Trimble township · 45732 · On Congress Run · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Fire insurance: 5 atlases
York township · 45764 · On Dorr Run · Nelsonville quadrangle
21 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Fire insurance: 7 atlases
Ames township · 45711 · On McDougall Branch · Amesville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1904 to 2002
Athens township · 45701 · On West Branch Margaret Creek · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Canaan township · 45701 · On Canaanville Run · Stewart quadrangle
14 sheets, 1904 to 2002
Waterloo township · 45764 · On Carbondale Creek · Union Furnace quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 2002
Athens township · 45701 · On West Branch Margaret Creek · Athens quadrangle
21 sheets, 1903 to 2002
York township · 45764 · In Bennett Hollow · Union Furnace quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 2002
Dover township · 45761 · On Jackson Run · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Athens township · 45701 · On Margaret Creek · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Waterloo township · 45766 · On Gowler Ridge · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Alexander township · 45701 · On Ervin Run · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Trimble township · 45732 · On Goose Run · Nelsonville quadrangle
21 sheets, 1903 to 2002
No longer a settlement
Trimble township · 45732 · On Little Greens Run · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Athens township · 45701 · On Margaret Creek · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Alexander township · 45710 · On North Branch Margaret Creek · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Athens township · 45701 · On Dirty Creek · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Waterloo township · 45766 · In King Hollow · Mineral quadrangle
15 sheets, 1904 to 1992
No longer a settlement
Dover township · 45761 · On Mount Nebo · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Athens township · 45701 · On Coates Run · Athens quadrangle
21 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Dover township · 45761 · On Big Bailey Run · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
York township · 45764 · On Monday Creek · Nelsonville quadrangle
21 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Trimble township · 45732 · On Little Greens Run · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Athens township · 45701 · On Ervin Run · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Athens township · 45701 · On Ervin Run · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Athens township · 45701 · On Ervin Run · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Dover township · 45761 · On Mill Creek · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Trimble township · 45782 · On Congress Run · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Alexander township · 45701 · On Ervin Run · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Athens township · 45701 · On West Branch Margaret Creek · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
Athens township · 45701 · On West Branch Margaret Creek · The Plains quadrangle
18 sheets, 1903 to 1980
21 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases, 1885 to 1948
21 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1887 to 1951
14 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases, 1896 to 1937
19 topographic sheets and 5 fire insurance atlases, 1896 to 1948
The complete index, with nothing left out. Each of these is a separate record with its own page: a federal survey report, or the case file that argued a property on to the National Register. Both are public domain and reproduced word for word.
The vanished settlements of Athens County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.
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