76 topographic sheets and 28 fire insurance atlases across 4 places.
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25 National Register listings · 45 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1887 to 1951 · the 1880 county history tells 0 stories and names 2 people · people the book names include Some General Characteristics (Greenville Township, 1880) · General Orders (Adams Township, 1880) (machine-read).
Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service
Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.
Darke 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.
Sampled issues, machine-read from the Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline and column is searchable text.
Greenville, Ohio, 1850 to 1918. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.
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.
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. 255 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. 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.
Flour Mill
1898 to 1902, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Landman & Stock, Flour-mill.
City Hall
1901 to 1905, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Miles N.W.of City Hall.
Works
1898 to 1902, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Murphy, J., Tile-works.
Church
named once, in the 1951 atlas
Appears in 1951
On the National Register as St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church
Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 1 of them, burning about 1 acres. 0 started naturally and 0 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 453 reports for this county, causing 0 deaths, 29 injuries and about $34,950,450 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 252 |
| Hail | 98 |
| Flood | 37 |
| Tornado | 31 |
| Flash Flood | 30 |
| Heavy Rain | 3 |
| Lightning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1992 | Tornado (F3) | not stated | 21 hurt, $25,000,000 | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Hill Grove | 2 hurt, $500,000 | The tornado developed at 1850EST in Randolph County, Indiana, just south of Farmland. The tornado traveled east across Randolph County and entered Darke County, Ohio, at 1920EST, about 2.5 miles west-southwest of Hill Grove. ||As the tornado moved east across Darke County, it produced EF-1 damage at several locations, with winds estimated to be as high as 110 MPH. Some of the roads with the greatest impact in Darke County were Fisher Dangler Road, Fox Road, and Horatio Harris Creek Road. Several homes had partial roof removal, with debris scattered into tree lines and across adjacent fields. Two injuries were reported in Greenville Township.||The tornado entered Miami County at 1952EST as it crossed State Route 721, just north of Grandview Drive. The tornado ended along State Route 48, near the intersection with Klinger Road at 2000EST. |
| July 1961 | Tornado (F3) | not stated | 2 hurt, $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 1965 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | 2 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
| November 1955 | Tornado (F3) | not stated | 1 hurt, $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Lightning | Union City | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| April 1980 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Coletown | $500,000 | The tornado began near the intersection of Greenville-Nashville Road and New Madison-Coletown Road, where several trees were uprooted. The tornado continued northeast across State Route 502. Minor damage to homes and trees was observed on Daly Road west of Greenville. The width of the tornado increased significantly as the tornado entered Greenville. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted within the Greenville Union Cemetery.||As the tornado continued through the north side of Greenville, the width of the circulation remained large, with expansive tree damage throughout the city. The majority of the wind damage to homes was fairly minor with shingles and siding removed at many residences. Structure damage at the high school football field was also observed. Based on the damage in Greenville, maximum wind speeds were estimated to be around 110 mph.||The tornado exited Greenville near the elementary school and continued along Kruckeburg Road where it damaged some outbuildings and homes. Additional tree and structure damage was observed along Childrens Home Bradford Road as the tornado continued northeast. The final damage was found along Auld Road, northwest of Bradford. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | New Madison | $500,000 | A tornado briefly touched down in and near the village of New Madison. Much of the damage was consistent with EF0 wind speeds, as numerous large tree branches were damaged and minor roof damage occurred to structures. There was some damage indicative of EF1 winds of around 90 mph, namely large sections of roof uplifted at a lumber yard barn storage building. Elsewhere through the village, there was brick damage to the front facade of a downtown business, in addition to broken windows and some uplift of roof material. Much of this damage was more indicative of EF0 winds. |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ithaca | $300,000 | no account filed |
| June 1981 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Frenchtown | $150,000 | The first signs of damage with the tornado occurred near the intersection of OH-185 and Conover Road, where minor damage to a few trees and homes occurred. The tornado moved east-northeast and caused more significant damage to a few properties on Versailles Yorkshire Road, just south of Burns Road. At one property, two large barns were leveled and roof damage was observed to other structures. A home on the southeast corner of the Versailles Yorkshire Road and Burns Road intersection had a small amount of roofing material removed, along with more extensive shingle damage and a few trees uprooted. A car at this property was moved from its parked position and a piece of plywood was embedded under the hood.||Continuing to the east-northeast, two properties on the north side of Burns Road sustained damage, along with numerous trees that were downed in a small stand of hardwoods. There was quite a bit of roof damage to outbuildings at these properties along with some minor damage to more well-built structures. One home had a notable amount of mud splatter on a south-facing garage door. Eyewitness reports and photography indicated that debris from these locations traveled over a quarter mile across the open fields.||Damage was also observed at a cluster of homes on Reed Road, just north of Burns Road. Most of the structural damage here was minor, primarily limited to fascia and siding. At least 20 to 30 trees in this area sustained damage with some of them uprooted and numerous others with large limbs snapped off. Debris from this cluster of properties was observed along a treeline across Reed Road to the east.||Additional minor tree damage occurred on Cramer Road. The last visible damage from this tornado occurred in a treeline south of Murphy Road along Swamp Creek, where a few large limbs were downed. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Gordon | $100,000 | The tornado touched down in open farm fields to the west of Schnorf-Jones Road and immediately intensified and hit a farm, heavily damaging barns and outbuildings. The tornado continued east and crossed Red River-West Grove Road, where another farm was struck. At this location, a house received roof damage and several barns were damaged. The tornado lifted in a field east of Highway 49. Several people witnessed the tornado on the ground in this area, including video footage of debris being lifted from the ground.||Damage at the first farmstead was consistent with wind speeds of around 100 mph, or EF-1 damage. The second farmstead sustained damage consistent with wind speeds of around 75 mph. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Glen Karn | $100,000 | The tornado initially touched down just inside the Ohio state line in southwest Darke County, about 2 miles south of the village of Hollansburg. Damage began as downed trees along with a barn roof and walls that were lifted and carried about 200 yards downwind on Hollansburg-Richmond Road. There was evidence of a convergent debris pattern and some evidence of back splatter, indicative of a tornado. The tornado continued over open fields until it destroyed another barn, just south of Moore Road, completely removing the roof and roof joists and collapsing exterior walls. There was also siding and awning damage to the home, as well as a large uprooted tree. The damage in this area was consistent with EF1 winds of 90 mph. ||The tornado continued to Payne Road, resulting in some roof and siding damage to a barn, more indicative of EF0 damage. |
| September 2003 | Tornado (F1) | New Weston | $100,000 | A brief tornado touched down across the extreme northern part of the county. One barn was destroyed, and another barn had its roof blown off. Two nearby silos sustained some damage. In total, nine farm buildings sustained damage from the tornado. Two nearby houses had minor structural damage. Winds were estimated to be near 80 mph. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville | $100,000 | Several mobile homes in the Sherwood Forest Trailer Park suffered severe damage, and a nearby 10' by 12' shed was destroyed. The roof of a home on Hog Path Road was torn off. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castine | $85,000 | Structural damage occurred to a barn and a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Twenty-five power poles were also reported down around the area due to the thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Arcanum | $75,000 | Damage was first observed along Grubbs-Rex Road. A large garage had one of its doors partially pushed inward. The most significant damage occurred at a property located south of Dull Road. A horse stable at the southern end of the property was almost completely destroyed. The southernmost addition to this stable suffered from complete collapse of external walls with some of the wooden anchor posts completely ripped from the ground. Minor damage to walls, windows and roof ornamentation was also noticed on two other outbuildings at this location. A brick house was generally undamaged, aside from some isolated removal of shingles. Throughout this area, tree damage was significant. Large limbs were spread almost everywhere with several trees downed and others snapped off above ground level. Debris from the stable was found deposited in trees in several other places on the property.||Debris from the Dull Road location, including large pieces of sheet metal, was spread for long distances to the north of the property. A significant amount of this debris was deposited between the damage area and Dull Road. Very minor roof damage was also observed on a barn located just north of Dull Road.||Numerous pieces of debris were found between Dull Road and east South Street (State Route 49). A few pieces were even found just north of east South Street. A lack of trees along this segment of the path made it difficult to determine the exact end point of the tornado. It is estimated that the tornado lifted in the vicinity of east South Street. |
| October 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Braffettsville | $75,000 | The tornado touched down in Preble County at 1040 EST and continued into Darke County at 1041 EST before lifting at 1048 EST. The path width was 30 yards. The tornado traveled for 0.29 miles in Preble County and then 4.06 miles in Darke County. The damage was consistent with winds around 80 miles per hour in Preble County and 90 miles per hour in Darke County. The tornado was rated an EF0 in Preble County and an EF1 in Darke County. The tornado touched down initially in open farm land north of Eldorado-Whitewater Road. In this area, some farm fences were covered with corn debris. Minor tree damage was also found in this area. The tornado likely lifted for a brief time before touching down in Darke County west of Highway 726, destroying a barn. The tornado continued across Highway 726 where it hit a residence on Preble County-Butler-Township Road. At this location, outbuildings were destroyed and significant tree damage occurred. The tornado continued across farm fields until glancing another residence along Highway 722 where tree damage and minor outbuilding damage occurred. Several utility poles were also snapped in half. The tornado then continued northeast and hit a residence on Emrick Road where the most significant damage occurred. Windows were broken in the house, there was significant outbuilding damage, and several large and healthy trees were snapped off and uprooted. More damage was found to a residence on Otterbein-Ithaca Road near United States Highway 127. Here, a barn was partially collapsed and several trees were snapped. Roofing material was also removed from the house. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union City | $60,000 | Barns were damaged extensively. An agricultural hopper was moved approximately 1000 feet. Large trees and limbs were snapped in several locations. Corn fields were flattened. Vegetation was removed from a 30 foot area in a farm field. These occurrences were due to damaging thunderstorm winds. The wind speed was estimated by the damage assessment. |
| April 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Gordon | $50,000 | The tornado first touched down near the intersection of Red River West Grove Road and Fourman Road, where mainly tree damage was observed. Some tree and barn damage occurred on Range Line Road with minor tree damage observed as far east as West Milton. Reports and photo evidence from numerous citizens in the area, in addition to emergency management officials, helped determine the extent of this tornado. Maximum wind speeds were estimated to be around 80 mph. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Pitsburg | $50,000 | Damage from this tornado is believed to have begun near the intersection of Schnorf-Jones Road and Stocker Road in Darke County, just over a mile southeast of Pitsburg. From here, the tornado traveled east, affecting West River Red Grove Road. Damage along these roads was generally limited to trees. The tornado crossed into Miami County at 2128EST along Hall Road, about 4 miles east of Pitsburg. The tornado continued to move east across Miami County, eventually ending at 2144EST, about 4 miles southwest of Troy. While the tornado produced low-end EF3 damage in Miami County, the maximum strength in Darke County was consistent with EF1 damage and the maximum tornado width was about 1200 yards. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baker | $50,000 | Thunderstorm wind damage occurred along a swath that included properties along Highway 36, southwest of Greenville. This damage included power poles and two trees being blown down as well as roof damage to residences and a barn destroyed. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Versailles | $50,000 | Twenty-five roads in the northeast part of the county were closed due to high water. A few homes were flooded in the area as well. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $50,000 | Winds gusting well over 70 mph caused numerous downed trees and power lines. Also, three buildings received major damage and a tree was thrown into a house |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | South half | $50,000 | Grain bins blown over, several barns and outbuildings damaged. Trees downed. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville and | $50,000 | Trees were downed and a barn roof was blown off. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dawn | $40,000 | Trees and power lines were reported knocked down. A barn was also destroyed and damage was reported to grain silos. |
| December 2013 | Flash Flood | Gettysburg | $40,000 | Water was reported rushing over roads and entering homes. Several homes were getting sand bagged. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcanum | $40,000 | One barn was destroyed and another barn sustained damage due to thunderstorm winds. Power lines were also down due to the winds. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Madison | $30,000 | A large chicken barn was blown over as well as trees and power lines downed south of New Madison due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Madison | $30,000 | Numerous trees, branches, and power poles were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcanum | $30,000 | A barn was significantly damaged with the roof removed and the metal roof of a house was blow off due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Madison | $30,000 | A barn was destroyed and a camper was blown over due to damaging thunderstorm winds. In addition, a tree fell on a car which trapped a person. A 500 pound propane tank also was blown over. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union City | $30,000 | Numerous trees and large limbs were knocked down in many locations across the county, including Hollansburg, New Madison,Versailles, Union City and Arcanum. One tree fell on a house in Arcanum. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dawn | $25,000 | A roof was blown off a barn near Brown Road and Route 127 due to thunderstorm winds. There were additional reports of utility lines and poles down in the county. |
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | Arcanum | $25,000 | Seven homes were flooded, with two sustaining major damage. Four house trailers were also flooded. A log and corn fodder jam occurred as a result of the heavy rain, causing high water to flow over Bridge Oaks Road. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville | $25,000 | Numerous large trees were knocked down. Three homes on Oliver Road sustained structural damage, likely from a microburst. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gettysburg | $25,000 | High winds knocked trees and power lines down. Also, roofs were blown off mobile homes and barns. |
| July 1978 | Tornado (F0) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1963 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1958 | Tornado | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville | $20,000 | Numerous trees were downed throughout the county, especially in the Greenville area. |
| March 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Pitsburg | $20,000 | The first evidence of damage occurred north of Stocker Road just east of the intersection with Schnorf-Jones Road. A few trees were downed in this location with some light debris noted along the tree line about 350 feet north of Stocker Road.||Additional damage was noted at a residence on the northeast corner of the intersection of Oakes Road and Schnorf-Jones Road. A stone chimney on the house was heavily damaged. A few panels of metal roofing on the house were completely removed. A metal barn roof at this location was also partially peeled up to the west.||Light debris from the above location was spread about a quarter mile to the north with some evidence of very minor damage at an adjacent property just south of a line of trees. Beyond this line of trees, which had some depositing of light debris, there was no further damage observed. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castine | $20,000 | Damage occurred to farm storage units and slight damage was done to a house. |
| April 2010 | Lightning | Greenville | $20,000 | There were several reports of damage and structural fires due to lightning across the county. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | North Portion | $20,000 | Numerous roads remained flooded and closed. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $20,000 | Several trees were downed in the Greenville area. Trees and powerlines were downed from southwest to eastern portions of the county. In Gettysburg, two barns were damaged. Straight-line winds were estimated to be around 80 mph. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pitsburg | $16,000 | The roof was blown off a building, along with numerous large trees being knocked down onto roadways and power lines. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Abbottsville | $15,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds shifted a trailer home from its foundation on Hollansburg-Sampson Road. There was also minor damage to a barn and several trees and limbs were downed. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $15,000 | Numerous trees and powerlines were downed. A large tree fell on a camper near Lightsville, causing extensive damage. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Pitsburg | $15,000 | The Franklin-Monroe school sustained basement flooding, with water up to five feet deep in spots. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville | $15,000 | Several trees downed, some onto an automobile. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville | $12,000 | Several trees and power lines were downed in the Greenville area. |
| August 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Landis | $10,500 | The tornado touched down in a field just northwest of the|intersection of Neff Road and Hahn Road, continuing northeast across|the 5200 block of Gettysburg-Pitsburg Road, where it left a home|untouched but knocked down a rotted tree just behind it. A barn|behind the home sustained significant damage, losing a quarter of|its roof and the entire overhang attached to the back of the barn.|The sliding front door of the barn was also flipped up over the|roof. A small tractor trailer parked behind the barn was flipped|onto its side and was damaged by flying debris. Debris from the barn|was found strewn about 200 yards east into a soybean field behind|the farm. A few large branches were found snapped off a tree behind|the barn.||Drone footage shared by the Darke County Sheriff showed a continuous|tornado path through soybean and corn fields stretching a few|miles northeast of the initial touchdown location. As the tornado|tracked northeast from the damaged farm, it passed just about 300|feet north of a residence on Yount Road. Downstream crop damage|revealed the tornado crossed Byreley Road, Red River-West Grove|Road, and Grise Road. A small metal phone booth with a concrete slab|foundation was knocked over on Grise Road just west of State Route|721. The tornado path ended in a soybean field just east of the|Darke/Miami county line after crossing State Route 721. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rossburg | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed throughout the county. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pitsburg | $10,000 | A few trees were downed. The roof of a post office was damaged and a power pole was also downed. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pitsburg | $10,000 | A tree fell on a house in Pitsburg. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | $10,000 | Trees fell onto Wildcat Road, causing a car accident. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Savona | $10,000 | Several trees were downed. One barn was destroyed and another barn had the roof blown off. A silo was also damaged. |
The Survey's mineral resources record lists 12 workings inside this county. 6 still produce and 6 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
| Commodity | Workings |
|---|---|
| Sand and Gravel, Construction | 8 |
| Clay | 2 |
| Limestone, General | 1 |
| Stone, Crushed/Broken | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Jefferson Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Fort Jefferson Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Darke County Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Darke County Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Feitshans Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Feitshans Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fouremans Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Fourmans Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hollinger Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hollinger Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Slagle Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Slagle Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Museum specimens collected inside this county and catalogued with a date and a place: 676 of them, by kingdom 633 animalia, 22 fungi, 20 plantae, 1 chromista. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), UMMZ, USNM, KU, BPI, NY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1838 | Callitriche palustris L. | Plantae | Lexington, Kentucky. | Short, C.W. | MEL MEL 2490362A |
 | 1883 | Peronospora destructor (Berk.) Casp. ex Berk. | Chromista | Ithaca | Collector unspecified | NY 1960052 |
 | 1895 | Dispira americana Thaxt. | Fungi | Greenville | Rush W. H. | BPI BPI 410918 |
 | 1905 | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | Animalia | Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township | Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.) | Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM 3729 |
 | 1905 | Etheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 1888 | Animalia | Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township | Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.) | Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM 3730 |
 | 1906 | Clitocybe multiceps Peck | Fungi | Greenville | H.J. Brememan | CUP CUP-A-020044 |
 | 1907 | Peziza vesiculosa Bull. | Fungi | Greenville | Lucas, C | CUP CUP-A-021900 |
 | 1909 | Amanita phalloides (Vaill. ex Fr.) Secr. | Fungi | Greenville | A. F. C.; Stover, W. G. | BPI BPI 750673 |
The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 18 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.
Everyone The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; 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 1880.
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.
Brown township · 45303 · On North Fork Stillwater River · Ansonia quadrangle
11 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Fire insurance: 6 atlases
Greenville township · 45331 · On Mud Creek · Greenville West quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Fire insurance: 8 atlases
Wayne township · 45380 · On Indian Creek · Versailles quadrangle
13 sheets, 1911 to 1986
Fire insurance: 7 atlases
Neave township · 45331 · On Spring Branch · Greenville West quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Adams township · 45331 · On Bolton Run · Greenville East quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Mississinawa township · 45846 · On Gray Branch · Cosmos quadrangle
16 sheets, 1915 to 1986
Greenville township · 45331 · On Dividing Branch · Greenville East quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Wabash township · 45388 · North Star quadrangle
12 sheets, 1908 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Neave township · 45331 · On Prairie Outlet · Greenville West quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Jackson township · 45390 · Ansonia quadrangle
11 sheets, 1953 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Greenville township · 45331 · On West Branch Greenville Creek · Ansonia quadrangle
11 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Washington township · 45331 · Greenville West quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Adams township · 45308 · On Bolton Run · Greenville East quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Wayne township · 45380 · On Indian Creek · Versailles quadrangle
13 sheets, 1911 to 1986
Liberty township · 45352 · On Spring Branch · Greenville West quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Greenville township · 45331 · On Harte Run · Dawn quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Neave township · 45304 · Greenville East quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Washington township · 45331 · On Kraut Creek · Ansonia quadrangle
11 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Patterson township · 45388 · Osgood quadrangle
15 sheets, 1909 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Neave township · 45331 · On Prairie Outlet · Greenville West quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Neave township · 45331 · On Prairie Outlet · Greenville West quadrangle
12 sheets, 1953 to 1986
Washington township · 45331 · On North Fork Kraut Creek · Spartanburg quadrangle
18 sheets, 1916 to 1992
Harrison township · 45347 · Whitewater quadrangle
11 sheets, 1915 to 1986
No longer a settlement
12 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases, 1887 to 1948
8 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1951
13 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1893 to 1951
11 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1951
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 Darke County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.
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