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Champaign County, Ohio

60 topographic sheets and 24 fire insurance atlases across 4 places.

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From the record

27 National Register listings · 45 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1885 to 1926 · the 1881 county history tells 0 stories and names 1 people · people the book names include North Lewisburg P. O. (Wayne Township, 1881) (machine-read).

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service

Ohio within the United States
Champaign County within Ohio
Explore by year 1858 1948

What the record shows

  • 4 places in this county were surveyed for fire insurance: Urbana, Mechanicsburg, Saint Paris, North Lewisburg, between 1885 and 1950.
  • 24 fire insurance atlas(es) survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
  • 517 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 27 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places, including 12 houses and farms.
  • 4 of the 27 listings were added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 39 populated places in this county; 0 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
  • 2 public-domain county histories, 1881 and 1881, supply 372,950 words of narrative reproduced here in full.

Photographs

9 photographs, 1938

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.

Buildings on grounds at Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Buildings on grounds at Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Shahn, Ben, 1938. Library of Congress
Entrance to Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Entrance to Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Shahn, Ben, 1938. Library of Congress
Judges' stand, county fair
Judges' stand, county fair
Shahn, Ben, 1938. Library of Congress
Livestock display, Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Livestock display, Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Shahn, Ben, 1938. Library of Congress
Entrance to Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Entrance to Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Shahn, Ben, 1938. Library of Congress
Livestock display, Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Livestock display, Champaign County Fair, Ohio
Shahn, Ben, 1938. Library of Congress
Matt Gray House, North Lewisburg, Champaign County, OH
Matt Gray House, North Lewisburg, Champaign County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Covered Bridge, Spanning Darby Creek, North Lewisburg, Champaign County, OH
Covered Bridge, Spanning Darby Creek, North Lewisburg, Champaign County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Covered Bridge, Spanning Spain's Creek, North Lewisburg, Champaign County, OH
Covered Bridge, Spanning Spain's Creek, North Lewisburg, Champaign County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Places on the National Register

27

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 PropertyType ListedReference
Baker, Maj. John C., Housebuilding198585001875
Barr Housebuilding198585001876
Burnham, Henry, Housebuilding198585001877
Church Of Our Saviorbuilding198585001878
Clark, Dr., Housebuilding198585001879
Culbertson, William, Housebuilding198585001880
Demand-Gest Housebuilding198585001881
Hamer's General Storebuilding198585001882
Kimball Housebuilding198585001884
Kiser Mansionbuilding201110001211
Lowler's Tavernbuilding198585001885
Magruder Buildingbuilding198585001886
Masonic Templebuilding198585001887
Mechanicsburg Baptist Churchbuilding198585001888
Monitor Housebuilding197474001408
Mosgrove, Dr. Adam, Housebuilding198282003550
Mt. Tabor Church Building, Cemetery and Hitching Lotbuilding199595001329
Ninchelser, Dr., Housebuilding198585001889
Nutwood Placebuilding197676002265
Nutwood Placebuilding197676002265
Richards--Sewall Housebuilding199595000937
Second Baptist Churchbuilding198585001891
St. Michael Catholic Churchbuilding198585001892
St. Paul AME Churchbuilding199797000954
United Methodist Churchbuilding198585001893
Village Hobby Shopbuilding198585001894
Ward, John Q. A., Housebuilding197474001409

Covered bridges

0

Champaign County holds 0 covered bridges on the National Register, more than any other property type here. Each is a listed structure with a federal nomination on file.

Digitised newspapers

5 issues

Sampled issues, machine-read from the Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline and column is searchable text.

Urbana Union

Urbana, Ohio, 1862 to 1872. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.

Bird's-eye views and land ownership maps

3

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.

Bird's-eye view, 1899 - Mingo Junction, Ohio 1899
Bird's-eye view (1899) - Mingo Junction, Ohio 1899. Library of Congress.
Land ownership map, 1858 - Map of Champaign Co. O.
Land ownership map (1858) - Map of Champaign Co. O.. Library of Congress.
Land ownership map, 1894 - Map of Champaign County, Ohio
Land ownership map (1894) - Map of Champaign County, Ohio. Library of Congress.

The county from the air

32 of 583 shown

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. 583 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.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-08-01, scale 1:69000
1952-08-01, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-08-01, scale 1:69000
1952-08-01, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-08-01, scale 1:69000
1952-08-01, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-08-01, scale 1:69000
1952-08-01, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-10-28, scale 1:60000
1959-10-28, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-10-28, scale 1:60000
1959-10-28, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-10-28, scale 1:60000
1959-10-28, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-10-28, scale 1:60000
1959-10-28, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-05-03, scale 1:60000
1960-05-03, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-05-03, scale 1:60000
1960-05-03, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-05-03, scale 1:60000
1960-05-03, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-05-03, scale 1:60000
1960-05-03, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-04-15, scale 1:24000
1964-04-15, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-04-15, scale 1:24000
1964-04-15, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-04-15, scale 1:24000
1964-04-15, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-04-15, scale 1:24000
1964-04-15, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-03-18, scale 1:24000
1968-03-18, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-03-18, scale 1:24000
1968-03-18, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-03-18, scale 1:24000
1968-03-18, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-03-18, scale 1:24000
1968-03-18, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-05-01, scale 1:24000
1972-05-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-05-01, scale 1:24000
1972-05-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-05-01, scale 1:24000
1972-05-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-05-01, scale 1:24000
1972-05-01, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-10-01, scale 1:76000
1973-10-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-10-01, scale 1:76000
1973-10-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-10-01, scale 1:76000
1973-10-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-10-01, scale 1:76000
1973-10-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-11-01, scale 1:80000
1979-11-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-11-01, scale 1:80000
1979-11-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-11-01, scale 1:80000
1979-11-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-11-01, scale 1:80000
1979-11-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

City directories

1 volume

The "who lived here, by year" answer: pre-1929 public-domain directory volumes naming the county's people, machine-read and searchable as text.

Weather records

18 stations, 4 gages

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.

The 1950 census, district by district

31 districts

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.

  • 11-1Adams township
  • 11-2Concord township
  • 11-3Goshen township: Mechanicsburg village: Mechanicsburg village - That part north and northwest of Main
  • 11-4Mechanicsburg village - That part south and southwest of Main
  • 11-5Goshen township- That part outside Mechanicsburg village
  • 11-6Harrison township
  • 11-7St. Paris village, comprising parts of Jackson and Johnson townships: St. Paris village - That part in Jackson township
  • 11-8St. Paris village - That part in Johnson township
  • 11-9Jackson township, outside St. Paris village: Christiansburg village
  • 11-10Jackson township - That part outside Christiansburg village (Remainder of Jackson township is in St. Paris village)
  • 11-11Johnson township - That part outside St. Paris village (Remainder of Johnson township is in St. Paris village)
  • 11-12Mad River township: Mad River township - That part north of Old Troy - Ubana Pike
  • 11-13Mad River township - That part south of Old Troy - Ubana Pike
  • 11-14Rush township: North Lewisburg Village
  • 11-15Woodstock Village
  • 11-16Rush township - That part outside North Lewisburg and Woodstock Villages
  • 11-17Salem Township: Salem township - That part east of U. S. Hwy. 68
  • 11-18Salem township - That part west of U.S. Hwy. 68
  • 11-19Union Township: Mutual village
  • 11-20Union township - That part outside Mutual village
  • 11-21Urbana city: Urbana city - That part comprising Ward 1 Bounded by Miami, Ward line; Ward line, S. Main, Ward line; City limits; City limits
  • 11-22Urbana city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Scioto; City limits; City limits; Kenton
  • 11-23Urbana city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Ward line, Scioto; Kenton; City limits; Ward line, S. Main
  • 11-24Urbana city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by City limits; City limits, East Lawn Ave.; Boyce, Boyce extended; N Main
  • 11-25Urbana city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by Boyce extended, Boyce; East Lawn Ave.; Scioto, Ward line; Ward line, N. Main
  • 11-26Urbana city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by City limits; City limits; Scioto; East Lawn Ave.
  • 11-27Urbana city - That part of Ward 4 Bounded by City limits; City limits, N. Main; Light; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, City limits
  • 11-28Urbana city - That part of Ward 4 Bounded by City limits; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway; Miami; City limits
  • 11-29Urbana city - That part of Ward 4 Bounded by Light; N. Main, Ward Line; Ward line, Miami; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
  • 11-30Urbana township - Outside Urbana city
  • 11-31Wayne township

Businesses named in the atlases

45 businesses

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. 11 of these 45 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.

Wildfire, 2002 to 2002

11 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 11 of them, burning about 31 acres. 1 started naturally and 2 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 March 2002Debris and open burning25 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 September 2002Other causes1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 March 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 March 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1958 to 2026

60 of 283 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 283 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 8 injuries and about $2,118,854 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind172
Hail59
Flood25
Flash Flood12
Tornado8
Heavy Rain5
Lightning1
Funnel Cloud1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Flash FloodWestville1 killed, $15,000A twelve year old boy drowned when he was swept into a flooded culvert. Several roads were flooded and a number of homes in Urbana had high water in basements.
November 1965Tornado (F2)not stated4 hurt, $25,000no account filed
May 2002LightningUrbana3 hurtA 12-year old boy was seriously injured by a lightning strike. Two other boys with him, ages 8 and 11, also complained of minor muscle spasms in their legs.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCountywide1 hurt, $8,000Large tree limbs were knocked down. One woman was injured in Urbana when a tree limb fell on her vehicle.
April 1999Tornado (F1)Middletown$300,000The tornado caused structural damage to houses and mobile homes, as well as downing several trees.
June 1958Tornado (F2)not stated$250,000no account filed
June 2022Tornado (EF0)Lippincotts$150,000Initial EF-0 damage began on West Herr Road near North US Highway 68. Several large tree branches measuring between 3-8 inches were snapped. The adjacent home toward the east had four large hardwood trees downed, several of which were snapped at the trunk. Additionally, this home and unattached garage had siding ripped off. Continuing 1.7 miles northeast, the property at the intersection of Kennard-Kingscreek Road and Game Farm Road received EF-0 damage. At this location, numerous hardwood trees were snapped at the trunk, a metal garage door was bent, a barn door track was ripped from the barn, and a shed was rolled onto its side.||The tornado continued eastward and broke additional tree limbs along Kennard-Kingscreek Road. Farther down the road, a barn was completely destroyed with the roof caving in and one of the supporting walls thrown 15 yards to the north. Next door to this location, several large hardwood trees were uprooted. Farther northeast, down Kennard-Kingscreek Road, a front porch was completely separated from the home and had large 20 foot pieces of structure thrown as far as 50 to 70 yards away. The damage path continued past North Ludlow Road, down South Kennard Road, where metal roofing was lifted off of a barn. More damage was found along a tree line off of Dog Leg Road, where numerous tree branches were snapped and trees were uprooted. The last known damage from the tornado occurred along State Route 296, where several trees were downed.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindUrbana$100,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed across mainly the northern half of Champaign County.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindSt Paris$100,000Roof damage was reported throughout the town due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindCountywide$75,000Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down countywide, but mainly in the western half of the county. Also, a roof was blown off a Dairy Queen restaurant.
June 1997Flash FloodCountywide$75,000Thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall fell on already saturated ground causing water to overflow from ditches, sewers, and creeks. Roads were flooded across the county, but the hardest hit area was in the eastern part of the county. In North Lewisburg, 40 people were evacuated from an apartment complex and some roads were washed out. Overall, in less than 24 hours, nearly 5 inches of rain fell on parts of the county.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindNorthville$70,000A mobile home was destroyed and debris was blown into the side of a nearby house. This debris damaged the house, including the roof and garage. Widespread tree and power line damage was also reported in the area. A horse trailer was destroyed with debris blown into a farm house. The storm survey concluded that this damage was due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindMechanicsburg$50,000Trees and powerlines were downed in town. Two barns sustained extensive roof damage.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSt. Paris and$50,000Trees and limbs were downed, some on power lines. At least one house in St. Paris was damaged by a falling tree.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg$50,000no account filed
October 2013Thunderstorm WindCarysville$30,000Trees and power lines were downed across the northwestern portions of the county due to thunderstorm winds. Some road closures occurred due to fallen tree debris. A porch was also damaged at a residence in the area.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindCountywide$30,000Numerous trees downed, some across power lines. Winds also blew a roof off a barn near State Route 296 and Mason Road, just northwest of Urbana.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Cable$25,000The tornado began approximately 6 miles east of Urbana, Ohio north of US Highway 36 with the first visible sign of damage along Mutual Union Road. Minor roof damage was observed at one residence with nearly all trees in the surrounding location remaining intact. As the tornado continued northeast, outbuilding damage was observed on Yocom Road. The most concentrated area of damage occurred on Perry Road where multiple trees were uprooted and several outbuildings were damaged. The final location of damage was found on North Parkview Road where minor roof and tree damage was observed. The tornado likely dissipated east of this point.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindUrbana$25,000Several trees and power poles were downed across Champaign County.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Lewisburg$25,000Large trees were downed and power poles were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Some of the downed trees and power poles caused multiple roads to be blocked. One of the trees fell on a house.
May 2000HailUrbana$25,000Large hail fell causing damage to the roof of a business. The hail also dented three trucks and cracked a car's windshield.
June 2023Tornado (EF0)Christiansburg$20,000The first damage was noted along South Lincoln Street where a few limbs were downed. From there, as the tornado slightly increased in intensity, the tree damage became more extensive along both North Lincoln Street and North Monroe Street between Pike Street and East 4th Street. Here, numerous large limbs were snapped off with most trees along these streets experiencing some damage. As the tornado exited Christiansburg on the north side of town along South Elm Tree Road, tree damage became less concentrated, but large limbs were still downed, especially along the west side of South Elm Tree Road. The tornado likely lifted in an open field between South Elm Tree Road and North Bollinger Road.||Damage along the tornado path suggested a maximum wind speed estimated at 75 mph.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindUrbana$20,000At least four trees were downed in Urbana due to thunderstorm winds. Structural damage also occurred to a house.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindUrbana$20,000Trees and powerlines were downed from Upper Valley Pike east to Kennard-Kingscreek Road. A garage sustained major damage beyond repair along Upper Valley Pike.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBowlusville$15,000Several trees were downed, included a couple that fell onto houses.
July 2014Tornado (EF0)Mutual$15,000The tornado touched down along U.S. Route 36, approximately two tenths of a mile northeast of the intersection with Yocom Road. Damage was primarily confined to the properties of two adjacent residences on the south side of U.S. Route 36. The most substantial damage occurred to a double wide manufactured home that lost half of its roof from the northwest side of the structure. The shingles and rafters were lifted over the home...and deposited immediately to the south. A 20 foot tall apple tree located 60 feet southwest of the home was uprooted and fell to the southeast. Numerous smaller limbs, mostly less than 3 inches in diameter, were broken from a willow tree located approximately 100 feet southeast of the home. These limbs were strewn to the east for approximately 175 feet into a neighboring yard.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindUrbana$10,000A house roof was damaged and several pine trees were downed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEris$10,000Several trees were downed across western Champaign County, including near the intersection of U.S. 36 and Zimmerman Road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindKings Creek$10,000A large tree was downed on a home in the Kingscreek area due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Lewisburg$10,000Structural damage was reported due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011FloodUrbana$10,000Roads were flooded and vehicles were stalled in flood waters due to heavy rain.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindUrbana$10,000Part of a barn roof was blown off and trees were reported down due to damaging winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUrbana$10,000A door was blown off of an airplane hangar at Grimes Field just north of Urbana.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCountywide$10,000A dozen 100 foot tall trees were downed along US Route 68 north of Urbana. Trees and power poles were knocked down in other parts of the county.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindMechanicsburg$10,000A thunderstorm produced strong winds which destroyed a barn and ripped the roof off a front porch. One inch hail also occurred.
September 2000Flash FloodCountywide$10,000Roads flooded across the county, especially in the northern and western parts of the state.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindTerre Haute$10,000Numerous trees and power lines downed.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSt Paris$10,000Trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds, some of which fell across roads.
August 1998HailUrbana$10,000Hail up to the size of tennis balls caused at least one broken windshield.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCountywide$10,000Many trees downed.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMechanicsburg$10,000Numerous trees downed.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindMechanicsburg$10,000Numerous trees downed and a roof blown off a barn.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCarysville and$10,000Several trees and power lines were downed in Carysville. One tree fell onto a house, causing some damage. Three-quarters inch hail fell at Mechanicsburg.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindCountywide$10,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKings Creek$8,000Shingles were ripped off the roof of a house and a garage door was blown in. Also, several trees were knocked down.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindNorthville$8,000A tree fell onto a car.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindWestville$8,000Trees and power lines were downed across the county.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindUrbana$8,000A tower sustained some minor damage. A home on Kennard-Kingscreek Road sustained significant damage from a fallen tree.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindUrbana$7,000Several trees were downed in Urbana.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindUrbana$7,000Numerous trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCountywide$7,000Trees were downed.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCountywide$7,000Trees were downed. Several six inch diameter limbs were knocked down in Rosewood.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindUrbana$7,000Trees were downed across town, and a large limb landed on a parked car.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCountywide$7,000Trees were downed at several locations. Some trees fell into power lines and across roads.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSt Paris$6,000Multiple trees were downed as well as some wires. A home lost a portion of its roof and debris was tossed onto the roadway.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindUrbana$6,000Numerous trees were down and large limbs were down on a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindUrbana$6,000Numerous trees were knocked down across town.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMutual$5,500Half of a metal roof from a barn was peeled back. Also an upstairs window was blown out.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMechanicsburg$5,000Several trees were downed along South Main Street between Rosedale Road and |Darby Avenue.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg$5,000A barn was damaged.

Mines and quarries

13 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 13 workings inside this county. 8 still produce and 5 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction12
Tungsten1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ultra-Met/ Urbana, OhioTungstenUnknown
Champlaign Co. Highway Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jacobs Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Miller Excavating Urbana PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moore's Excavating Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ralph Moore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roberts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Roberts Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Urbana # 215Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Urbana Number 215 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Urbana PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Collected here, 1838 to 1975

8 of 1,918 shown

Museum specimens collected inside this county and catalogued with a date and a place: 1,918 of them, by kingdom 1,528 animalia, 281 plantae, 90 fungi, 11 unrecorded, 7 protozoa. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), NY, USDA-ARS, INHS, Ohio State University - Mammal Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), OSU 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 YearSpecies KingdomWhere CollectorCatalogue
A photograph of the species Acer negundo, not of this specimen1838Acer negundo L.PlantaeUrbanaSamples, JohnCINC CINC-V-0000923
A photograph of the species Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris, not of this specimen1842Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris (Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull.) W.R.BuckPlantaeCedar Swamps, 6 mi S of UrbanaW. S. SullivantNY 530582
A photograph of the species Radula complanata, not of this specimen1843Radula complanata (L.) Dumort.Plantaeprope Urbana OhionisA. Gray; W. S. SullivantCINC CINC-B-0044187
A photograph of the species Radula obconica, not of this specimen1843Radula obconica Sull.Plantaenear UrbanaAsa Gray; W. S. SullivantPH PH00145054
Specimen of Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.1874Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.PlantaeCedar SwampBeardslee, H.C.MU 000118347
A photograph of the species Cratoneuron filicinum, not of this specimen1875Cratoneuron filicinum (Hedw.) SprucePlantaenot statedH. J. BiddlecomeNY 512803
A photograph of the species Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus, not of this specimen1875Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus (Hedw.) Warnst.PlantaeUrbanaHannah J. BiddlecomePH PH00129000
A photograph of the species Sphagnum girgensohnii, not of this specimen1875Sphagnum girgensohnii RussowPlantaeUrbanaHannah J. BiddlecomePH PH00132178

The townships, in 1881

372,950 words

The History of Champaign County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Champaign County; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters .. devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 3 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 TownshipSettlements in it LengthSections
Jackson TownshipChristiansburg, Darnell, Proctor162,413 words4
Urbana TownshipPowhattan, Urbana94,624 words2
Wayne TownshipCable, Middletown, Mingo115,913 words13

The people it describes

1 named

Everyone The History of Champaign County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Champaign County; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters .. 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 1881.

Every populated place in the county

39

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.

Recorded here

Urbana, Ohio

15 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1885 to 1950

Mechanicsburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases, 1892 to 1946

Saint Paris, Ohio

13 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1948

North Lewisburg, Ohio

13 topographic sheets and 5 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1950

Everything this county holds

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.

Surveyed structures

3 structures

Nomination case files

27 case files

The vanished settlements of Champaign County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.