86 topographic sheets and 46 fire insurance atlases across 5 places.
157 National Register listings published here, 6 of them National Historic Landmarks · 54 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1886 to 1956 · the county-history sources tell 3 stories and name 48 people · people the book names include Jacob Bauer (German Township, 1882) · Gen. Richard Montgomery (Dayton City, 1882) (machine-read).
Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service
Among them: Con Tents; Chapter Xii; Military History. These passages come from the identified county-history source books. Each inset names its own source and opens the exact section it comes from.
A Typical Frontier Vavern - Daytou Contained Nine Dwellings in 1799- - Several Roads Opened--Monument Avenue Cleared--Main Street a Narrow Wagon Road - Settlements Few and Far Between - Hardships of Pioneer Life--Tidian War Apprehended - Block House Built - Schooi Opened in the Block House- - First Distillery Started - Cooper's Saw Mill - Corn Cracker - Hogs Introduced - Feed on Mast - Attacked by Wild Animals--First Flat Boat Launched-Sheep Introduced - Cost of Groceries at Cinciunati - Little Money jin Circulation - Business Conducted by Barter - Value of Diffsrent Kinds of Skins--Cut Money - McDougal's Store - Trade with the Indians - First Child Boro in Dayton - Taxation in 1800 - First Wedding - Census in 1801 - First Miuister - - Methodists - Presbyterians--Log Meeting House - First Grave Yard - - Jobn W.
Municipal History - Beginning of Corporate History - Original Boundaries of the Town Site - Difficulties Connected with Securing Titles - First Town Mlection - Boundaries of the Settlement - Select Council in 1816 and Other Years - Boundaries of Wards --Addition to Market-house - City Officers from 1830 to 1850 - Officers' Salaries - Boundary Lines Defined - Polling Places Established in 1844 - Cholera in 1s49 - Officers from 1830 to 1889 - The Fire Department - Board of Health - City Police Dayton Police Benevolent Association - Water VWorks - Postolice............cccssds seeeee 193
Toepfer and a number of his men being killed. Captain John Fries was wounded. In February, 1848, the regiment was on garrison. duty at Puebla, and in' July, 1848, the Dayton company returned home with only thirty-six men. Upon their arrival they were escorted by the National Guard and artillery to the common just east of Bainbridge Street, near Third, where a grand dinner was served.
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.
![Artist John Safer's stainless-steel "Pathway" sculpture, dedicated to "the spirit of [Dayton aviation pioneers] Orville and Wilbur Wright," casts a striking contrast to the 1930 Edward B. Green Building that houses the Dayton Art Institute, a museum of fine arts in Dayton, Ohio](assets/locph_2016632558.jpg)
Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.
Sampled issues, machine-read from the Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline and column is searchable text.
Dayton, Ohio, 1913 to 1949. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.
Dayton [Ohio], 1850 to 1865. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.
Dayton, Ohio, 1865 to 1867. 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.
Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 80 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.
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. The Survey holds 555 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 47 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), 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 thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, 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. 3 of these 54 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.
School
named once, in the 1896 atlas
Appears in 1896
Read elsewhere as Public School.
Church
named once, in the 1956 atlas
Appears in 1956
Read elsewhere as Christ Methodist Church.
Warehouse
1892 to 1901, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Zimmer, J., Tobacco Warehouse.
Church
named once, in the 1921 atlas
Appears in 1921
The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 808 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 223 injuries and about $580,043,800 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 475 |
| Hail | 207 |
| Flood | 49 |
| Flash Flood | 47 |
| Tornado | 22 |
| Heavy Rain | 5 |
| Lightning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | 1 killed, $300,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF4) | Pyrmont | 166 hurt, $500,000,000 | The tornado initially touched down just west of Brookville and areas on the south side of Brookville sustained heavy damage, consistent with high-end EF2 wind speeds. Numerous homes suffered significant roof damage and removal, including exterior wall collapse and complete garage destruction. ||The tornado then carved a path east through Trotwood where damage consistent with EF2 wind speeds was widespread and some homes sustained damage consistent with EF3 wind speeds. Structures here again featured roof removal and exterior wall collapse. This was particularly true on the south side of Westbrook Road. A large number of homes and apartment complexes were impacted further east in Trotwood, with most of this damage consistent with high-end EF2 wind speeds.||The highest winds were estimated to have occurred in a corridor from eastern Trotwood (between Shiloh Springs Road and Westbrook Road), then southeast between Shiloh Springs Road and Turner Road, into areas along the Stillwater River/Riverside Drive area. Embedded within this zone was higher-end EF3 damage. Areas near Riverside Drive and the Stillwater River exhibited damage consistent with wind speeds of 170 mph, or lower-end EF4 damage. This damage included well-built apartment buildings that sustained complete roof and exterior wall removal. In addition, significant tree devastation was found along the Stillwater River, east of Riverside Drive, that included numerous trees that were debarked and nubbed down to the trunk.||The tornado continued southeast through Dayton and Northridge, and crossed I-75 into the Old North Dayton Area, where heavy damage continued to homes and businesses. As the tornado entered Riverside, damage began to lessen in intensity, but plenty of damage consistent with EF1 wind speeds was noted. The tornado continued further to the southeast, causing damage in a subdivision north of Burkhardt Road. The roof of an apartment building on Dodge Court was removed. This is the final known damage caused by this tornado.||An 86 year old woman died (indirect) on September 1st, 2019, in part due to injuries suffered when she was trapped in her home during the tornado. |
| May 1969 | Tornado (F3) | not stated | 25 hurt, $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Lightning | Kettering | 9 hurt | Lightning struck a tree near a home where an outdoor party was occurring. Nine people standing near the tree suffered minor injuries including burned feet. One person was held overnight at the local hospital for observation, but everyone else affected was treated and released the same evening. |
| October 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Vandalia | 8 hurt, $2,000,000 | The tornado touched down just northeast of Interstate 75 at Highway 40, exit number 63 in Vandalia. Initial damage consisted of the collapse of a cinderblock drive through store, and significant destruction of the roof and some of the cinderblocks on an uninhabited commercial building. This structure also had large plate glass windows blown in. Additional significant roof damage occurred to a neighboring business, as well as the snapping of some power poles. The tornado continued on to a restaurant, in which the windows were blown in and significant faade and roof damage occurred. Eight people inside the restaurant sustained minor injuries from glass. In the restaurant parking lot, there were numerous vehicles which had windows blown out, with some vehicles shifted or pushed from their parked location. There was a large pickup truck which was lifted and tossed, landing on top of another vehicle. The tornado continued into a residential subdivision, where at least 3 homes sustained damage which rendered them uninhabitable. There were additional homes with partial wall collapses and more than half the roof removed. Other homes had holes in the roof due to being impaled by debris. There was also significant damage due to large trees being snapped off and damaging the homes. Large portions of roofing and sheds were carried at least a city block. The tornado then lifted while in the residential subdivision. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum wind speed of this tornado was estimated to be between 100 and 110 miles per hour. |
| July 1990 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | 5 hurt | no account filed |
| August 1987 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | 3 hurt | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Miamisburg | 2 hurt, $10,000 | Two individuals, one child and one adult, were injured by large hail while running for cover. A truck also sustained damage due to the hail. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trotwood | 2 hurt, $7,500 | A large tree was knocked down into a house. |
| September 1986 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | 2 hurt | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Lightning | Dayton | 1 hurt | A University of Dayton student, Sean Ferguson, 23 of Pittsburgh, was struck by lightning as he ran across university parking lot C. The student was hospitalized with serious burns and a broken jaw. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Huber Hgts | $70,000,000 | Golf ball sized hail caused numerous reports of structural damage across the eastern part of the county, especially in Kettering |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF2) | Spanker | $1,000,000 | The tornado touched down initially just south of I-70, near Little York Road and Dog Leg Road, and traveled southeast. It produced damage consistent with EF2 wind speeds at several locations to the west of I-75, most notably on Cricket Lane and on Coppersmith Avenue in vicinity of Brantford Road. Several homes in this area had complete or near complete roof removal, with some collapse of an exterior wall. Tree damage was significant in this area as well. The tornado continued east while crossing I-75, where damage to businesses in this area was consistent with mostly EF1 and some low-end EF2 wind speeds. The tornado continued southeast and began to weaken and lift approximately in the vicinity of Needmore Road. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF2) | Eastview | $500,000 | The tornado first touched down in the Page Manor subdivision in Riverside, just west of the Montgomery/Greene County line. Damage to numerous trees and structures occurred in this area, including partial roof removal of several apartment complexes. This damage appeared to be caused by low-end EF2 winds. The tornado continued east into Greene County, before lifting about 5 miles north of Xenia at 2232EST. This tornado was rated as an EF3 based on damage that occurred in Greene County. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Kreitzer Corner | $250,000 | The tornado first touched down in eastern Preble County at 1950EST about 1 mile southwest of West Alexandria. The tornado move northeast and crossed into Montgomery County at 1956EST along Preble County Line Road, about 1/4 mile south of Old Dayton Road. ||Two properties on the southwest corner of the intersection of Sheep Road and Old Dayton Road had damage that was observed to be among the more significant caused by this tornado. At the Old Dayton Road property, a barn had half of its roof completely removed, with failure to the doors and damage to the walls. A thick metal fence surrounding a pool was also blown over and several large trees were downed. At the Sheep Road property, wooden fencing was blown down from the north and from the east, with some damage to the roof of a house, including a small section of roof removal. The street sign at the corner of Old Dayton Road and Sheep Road was blown approximately 500 feet into the field to the northeast. A third property on the north side of Old Dayton Road had shingle damage to the roof of a home, in addition to extensive tree damage.||On North Sulfur Springs Road, two properties suffered extensive tree damage. A property on the east side of the road also had two outbuildings damaged, with one suffering the loss of some roofing material and the other having a section of the main door flipped and bent over the top of the roof. Further east, a few trees were damaged at a residence on the east side of Crawford Road.||Several properties along Little Richmond Road, near and east of Johnsville-Brookville Road, were also affected by tree damage. One property just south of Little Richmond Road had a large swing set moved into an adjacent yard by the tornado. The end of the observed damage was to several trees along a tree line about 1000 feet north of Little Richmond Road. |
| March 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Brookville Rasor Arp | $250,000 | The tornado first touched down along Arlington Road just south of Potato Ridge Road where there was light damage to hardwood trees consistent with EF0 strength winds. The tornado then progressed north-northeast and crossed Sweet Potato Ridge Road and then Arlington Road, where it severely damaged a barn and woodshed. Just north of this location, a farm house on Baltimore Phillipsburg Pike had extensive damage with the entire roof lifted off from the upper level of the house. With consideration of the age of the home and roofing structure, the damage was consistent with high end EF1 damage. At this same property, a garage was shifted off its foundation with all walls collapsed and a nearby large barn lost about 20 percent of the roof.||Additional minor roof damage occurred at a property on the north side of the Baltimore Phillipsburg Pike property, with most of the damage coming from the roof debris from the property on the south side of Baltimore Phillipsburg Pike. ||The roof and yard debris from the Baltimore Phillipsburg Pike location was lofted as far as 300 to 400 yards from the home site, northward toward Blank Road. An additional farm site farther north along Arlington Road suffered a destroyed garage with debris from the structure spreading nearly 100 yards. Additional damage included chimney damage, snapped and uprooted trees, siding and significant barn damage. This damage was in the high end EF0 to low end EF1 scale.||The northernmost location of tornadic damage occurred along State Route 49, just north of Montgomery County Line Road in Miami County, where some large trees were downed. This was the northernmost indication of ground-based damage. There was additional debris in fields just north along Castine-Gordon Road, but this was the last known location of damage or debris. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Singing Hills | $200,000 | Cars were half submerged in rapidly rising water covering the Dayton Mall parking lot due to heavy rainfall. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dayton | $200,000 | Thunderstorms winds measured by spotters as high as 72 mph downed numerous trees, many of which fell on cars and blew on to and into homes. A construction trailer was severely damaged and some businesses received damage. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Johnson | $150,000 | Damage from the tornado was largely confined to a suburban residential area to the southwest of the intersection of Taylorsville Road and State Route 202 (Troy Pike). ||The beginning of the observed damage was in a wooded area to the west and southwest of Lincrest Place. Damage became more widespread to the north-northeast of this location, with the most concentrated area of damage observed along Dial Drive between Wildview Drive and Longford Road. Additional damage occurred along several other roads in this area, including Pineview Drive, Pathview Drive, and Bluffview Drive. Throughout this neighborhood, extensive tree damage was observed, with hardwood trees both uprooted and snapped. The density of tree damage in this area was significant. The direction of tree fall was also noteworthy. Although the tornado was moving toward the north-northeast, most of the trees fell from southeast to northwest, with other trees falling in a variety of directions. Based on the amount and severity of tree damage, an EF1 rating was assigned, with an estimated maximum wind speed of 95 mph.||Structural damage was generally limited in severity but widespread in scope, with nearly every home through the middle of the damage path suffering minor roofing or siding damage. One home on Dial Drive had a porch awning lifted and blown to the west, from the rear of the house to the road in front.||The end of the observed damage was just north of Taylorsville Road, where a few trees were damaged in a small wooded area adjacent to a commercial building. |
| February 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Phillipsburg | $150,000 | The tornado touched down one tenth of a mile southeast of the intersection of Sweet Potato Ridge Road and Brookville Phillipsburg Road. The garage door of a residence there was blown in, leading to the removal of the roof and two walls of the garage. The roof was uplifted, flipped, and dropped in the yard immediately to the east. Several trees were also snapped in the yard immediately east of the garage. One of these trees was approximately 18 inches in diameter. The next damage location was approximately two tenths of a mile east of the intersection of Sweet Potato Ridge Road and Brookville Phillipsburg Road. A roof was partially removed from a residence on the south side of Sweet Potato Ridge Road, and blown slightly to the left of the direction of storm motion into a residence on the north side of the road. A combination of the debris and winds blew in two windows on a residence on the north side of Sweet Potato Ridge Road. Yard furniture was also lifted and carried over a tenth of a mile to the north-northeast. The tornado then removed a large portion of a barn roof on the west side of Pansing Road and carried it to the northwest, perpendicular to the direction of storm motion. Other roof debris was lifted and carried across to the east side of Pansing Road. The final damage that was observed before the tornado lifted was on Phillipsburg Union Road approximately one half mile east of the intersection with Pansing Road. This was another instance where debris from a barn was carried a short distance to the northwest of the storm motion. This debris included a portion of the roof and wood siding. Several pine trees about 8 inches in diameter were also snapped, uplifted, and dropped pointing into the direction of the storm motion. All of the damage along the path exhibited convergent motion, along with the noted distances of debris being deposited to the northwest of the original source structures. The maximum estimated wind speed based on the damage surveyed was 85 miles per hour. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown | $125,000 | The roof of a mini mall on West Market Street was partially removed. When this occurred, rain was allowed to enter the building causing water damage, which closed three businesses. When the roof came off it damaged a vehicle. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Woodbourne | $100,000 | Multiple water rescues from vehicles were reported in the Washington Park area near Mc Ewen Road, Congress Park, and Paragon Road due to heavy rainfall. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Dayton | $100,000 | Lightning struck a building causing it to catch on fire. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $100,000 | Roof blown off an area church and numerous trees downed. Some trees fell across houses. |
| July 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Miamisburg | $75,000 | A tornado touched down near the Dayton Mall to the east of Miamisburg and was on the ground for just under a mile. The tornado caused minor damage to a strip mall, a carpet business, a restaurant and a municipal bus outlet. A few trees were downed along the track of the tornado as well. |
| June 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Browns Chapel | $50,000 | The tornado initially touched down on the west side of Puddenbag Road, south of Barlow Road and damaged several groves of trees before crossing Puddenbag Road and snapping and uprooting several more groves of trees on the east side of Puddenbag Road. The tornado crossed in front of a farmstead and snapped and uprooted a number of trees in front of the residence. It was at this location where tree damage was estimated to be caused by winds in the 90-95 mph range. The tornado continued southeast to Oxford Road where roofing material was lifted from a home on the north side of the road and a barn on the south side of the road, while also continuing to cause considerable tree damage. The tornado then continued southeast and moved into Butler County about 0.8 miles south southwest of Browns Chapel. The tornado continued to move southeast across far northern Butler County before lifting 1 mile northeast of Astoria at 19:43 EST. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Meyer Arpt | $50,000 | This tornado first touched down in southern Miami County at 2219EST, at a property north of Montgomery County Line Road and just east of State Route 721. The tornado moved southeast and entered Montgomery County, just north of the Phillipsburg Airport, at 2220EST. Roof damage was then observed at two structures at a property west of Hartman Road, with one outbuilding suffering the removal of half of its roof. Additional minor tree damage was observed further to the southwest. The final known damage from this tornado was at a property on N Diamond Mill Road, where a grain bin was|thrown into the field to the east. Damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado with 80 mph winds. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dahio Arpt | $50,000 | Widespread tree and power line damage occurred across Montgomery County with the heaviest damage along and west of Interstate 75, especially in Perry Township. DP&L reported that around 25,000 customers were without power in Montgomery County after the storm. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $50,000 | A barn and numerous trees were blown down between Germantown and New Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kettering | $50,000 | Many large limbs were reported down. Two roofs were blown off two apartment buildings and into a neighboring yard. Numerous trees and power lines were down throughout eastern Kettering. Kantner Park had a shelter damaged and picnic tables were tossed around. These occurrences were due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centerville | $50,000 | A microburst producing winds of 70 to 75 mph did significant damage to a few trailers. Several homes sustained siding damage, and numerous trees were knocked down. A 30-foot tower was also downed. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Carrollton and | $50,000 | Trees were downed, a barn roof blown off and crops damaged by large hail. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $50,000 | Trees were downed, some on power lines, cars, and structures. A house under construction collapsed in Germantown. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Farmersville | $50,000 | Trees were downed, a barn roof blown off and crops damaged by large hail. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dayton | $50,000 | Trees were downed. A large propane tank was blown over near Dayton. Large hail fell over the western part of Dayton. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trotwood | $40,000 | Numerous large trees were downed. Several cars were damaged by the trees. |
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vandalia | $40,000 | Several homes in a one square block area near the intersection of Spartan and West Hafer Streets sustained roof and carport damage. Trees were also knocked down throughout this area. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dayton | $30,000 | A roof was blown off of a residence in East Dayton as well as several utility poles that were snapped in half. Numerous trees were down in the vicinity of Glenrock Road and East Fifth Street. Several trees landed on parked automobiles and garages. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakwood | $25,000 | An approximately 4.5 mile swath of intermittent wind damage, mainly to trees, was surveyed. In the Oakwood area, damage was broad and sporadic in nature, centered on Forrer Boulevard but extending several blocks north and south of the boulevard, over a half mile wide at times. Tree damage in this area was mostly comprised of small and large limb breaks, but a few uprooted trees were noted. Tree damage was not determined to be convergent or to have a particularly strong cross-path component when taken in sum, and pointed more to being non-tornadic in nature.||Gaps of more consistent wind damage were evident before another area of more concentrated wind damage in Kettering along Aragon Avenue and Vale Drive, including an apartment complex which had several trees heavily damaged. Like with the Oakwood area damage, little evidence of a concentrated tornadic circulation existed in the tree damage, which again consisted of large broken limbs and a couple uprooted trees. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | (Day)Cox Dayton Intl | $25,000 | Winds gusted to 74 mph causing some damage to the airport facility. |
| June 1982 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1981 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1960 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eastview | $20,000 | A roof was destroyed on one home while another home close by sustained significant shingle damage. |
| April 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Centerville | $20,000 | The tornado initially developed just east of State Route 48 in Warren County, at 2358EST, April 2nd. The tornado moved northeast and entered Montgomery County at 2359 EST, just south of Elk Creek Drive. As the tornado moved northeast across far southeast Montgomery County, it cause sporadic tree damage. More large trees were uprooted and damaged along a portion of East Social Row Road, east of Mount Holly Avenue. Tree damage was also noted farther to the northeast near and along Nutt Road and Clyo Road, where the tornado dissipated at 0001EST, April 3rd. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hempstead | $20,000 | A tree fell onto a car near the intersection of Villanova Drive and Kenosha Road. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Singing Hills | $20,000 | Minor structural damage occurred at Dayton Mall due to thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookville | $20,000 | Siding and shingles were blown off a home along West Brook Road, and an adjacent 40 lb. metal swing set was thrown 300-500 yards. A barn had its roof removed. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Huber Hgts | $20,000 | no account filed |
| February 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulphur Grove | $15,000 | A large tree fell onto a house. Another tree fell onto a nearby car. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverside | $15,000 | A roof was blown off of a concession stand at Stebbins High School and 2 sheds were damaged at Mad River Middle School due to thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Centerville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds gusted to 63 mph in Dayton knocking down many trees. Trees were also knocked down in Centerville. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Germantown | $15,000 | Several hours of heavy rainfall caused roads to be flooded. One vehicle became stranded in the high water. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kettering | $15,000 | Trees and power lines downed. Also, a wooden baseball dugout was completely destroyed. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Half | $15,000 | Trees were downed in Trotwood, while a roof was blown off a house in Dayton. |
| March 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | $12,000 | Several windows were blown out on Timbercrest and Thistlewood. A couple of patio roofs were ripped apart and blown about the neighborhood. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miamisburg | $10,000 | A large tree fell onto a house. |
| February 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Eastview | $10,000 | The tornado first touched down in far northeast Montgomery County, near dwellings located just south of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Large hardwood branches were broken near the intersection of Mitchell Drive and Spinning Road. Minor tree damage continued across Airway Road into portions of the Wright Field Airport, where it crossed into Greene County at 0438EST. The tornado continued east-northeast into Greene County before lifting near Wright State University at 0441EST. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Dayton | $10,000 | A few motorists were stranded in high water near downtown Dayton. |
| March 2020 | Flash Flood | Ft Mc Kinley | $10,000 | Several vehicles were stuck in high water near the intersection of Ark Avenue and Klepinger Road. |
The Survey's mineral resources record lists 45 workings inside this county. 22 still produce and 23 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
| Commodity | Workings |
|---|---|
| Sand and Gravel, Construction | 39 |
| Stone, Crushed/Broken | 4 |
| Limestone, General | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olive Road Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Phillipsburg Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Olive Road Limestone Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Phillipsburg-#421 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Southwestern Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wayne Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Broadway Sand & Gravel Co. Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Broadway Sand and Gravel Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Broadway Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Campbell Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Campbell Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Carter & Webb Incorporated | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cassel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cassel Sand & Gravel, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| East River Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| East River Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Haas Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Haas Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hilltop Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Jackson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jackson Sand Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Miller Brothers Gravel, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Miller Brothers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Moraine Materials Pit No 5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Moraine Materials Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Northmont Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Northmont Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Number 1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Rip Rap Road Plant 416 & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| South Dayton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Southern Hills Supply, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Southern Hills Supply, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Stanley Avenue Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Stanley Avenue Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stanley Avenue Plant Number 6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Taylorville Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Taylorville Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tipp Stone Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Tipp Stone Plant No 2 & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Urbana Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Weidle Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Wenger Road Sand & Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| West Carrollton Aggregate No. 1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Museum specimens collected in and around this county - inside the rectangle that bounds it - and catalogued with a date and a place: 1,301 of them, by kingdom 1,121 animalia, 102 plantae, 66 fungi, 4 chromista, 4 protozoa. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by YPM, UMMZ, USNM, INHS, OSUC, Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1835 | Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx. | Plantae | Ohio, Miami [County] | Joseph C. Frank | ETHZ ZT-00252778 |
 | 1835 | Hypericum mutilum subsp. mutilum | Plantae | Germantown | Joseph C. Frank | NHMUK BM015177001 |
 | 1836 | Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl. | Plantae | Dayton | C. W. Short | NY 02507427 |
 | 1837 | Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl. | Plantae | 3 mi. north of Dayton | van Cleve, John W. | BDI |
 | 1838 | Hydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt. | Plantae | Dayton | J. W. Van Cleve | NY 3190200 |
 | 1839 | Allium canadense L. | Plantae | Dayton. 1 mi. northeast. | not recorded | BDI |
 | 1839 | Cardamine L. | Plantae | Dayton. 1 mile east. | Sanders, Alfred; J.J. Nagel, J.G. Haupt. | BDI |
 | 1839 | Cassia marilandica L. | Plantae | Dayton | Sanders, Alfred | BDI |
The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 10 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.
One book written about this county, cut here where the book itself is cut, at its printed chapters: 28 chapters in all. Every chapter is public domain, machine-read from the scan and reproduced complete. A chapter already given under one of the county's towns is not repeated in this list.
| Chapter | Length |
|---|---|
| Biographical sketches | 80,426 words in 6 parts |
| Chapter 1 (1 of 2 so headed) | 5,152 words |
| Chapter 2 (1 of 2 so headed) | 8,855 words |
| Chapter 3 (1 of 2 so headed) | 11,933 words |
| Chapter with an unread heading (no. 4 of those read) | 2,269 words |
| Chapter 6 | 6,850 words |
| Chapter 8: War of 1812 | 11,356 words |
| Chapter 10 | 7,606 words |
| Chapter 11 | 11,648 words |
| Chapter 13 | 16,212 words in 2 parts |
| Chapter 14 | 5,087 words |
| Chapter 15: Geoloc4y of Montgomery County | 6,660 words |
| Chapter 16 | 4,531 words |
| Chapter 17 | 11,470 words |
| Chapter 18: Med [cal Societies | 599 words |
| Chapter 19 | 1,974 words |
| Chapter 20 | 4,846 words |
| Chapter 21 | 12,963 words |
| Chapter 1 (2 of 2 so headed) | 5,702 words |
| Chapter 2 (2 of 2 so headed) | 5,499 words |
| Chapter 3 (2 of 2 so headed) | 4,768 words |
| Chapter 4 | 4,224 words |
| Chapter 5 | 3,731 words |
| Chapter 6: Dayton Industrial Interests | 17,237 words in 2 parts |
| Chapter 7: Churches | 23,465 words in 2 parts |
| Chapter 8 | 11,210 words |
| Chapter 9: The Dayton Press | 8,618 words |
| Chapter 10: Secret Societies | 4,025 words |
Everyone The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; 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 1882.
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 nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 5 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.
Clay township · 45309 · Brookville quadrangle
10 sheets, 1905 to 1986
Fire insurance: 6 atlases
Dayton city · 45402 · On Mad River · Dayton North quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 1996
Fire insurance: 21 atlases
German township · 45327 · On Little Twin Creek · Miamisburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Fire insurance: 7 atlases
Miami township · 45342 · On Sycamore Creek · Miamisburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Fire insurance: 9 atlases
West Carrollton city · 45449 · On Opossum Creek · Miamisburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Fire insurance: 3 atlases
Miami township · 45342 · On Sycamore Creek · Miamisburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Clay township · 45309 · On Razor Run · Trotwood quadrangle
13 sheets, 1905 to 1986
Dayton city · 45406 · Near Stoddard Hill · Dayton North quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 1996
Dayton city · 45405 · On Stillwater River · Dayton North quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 1996
Jackson township · 45325 · On Toms Run · Farmersville quadrangle
11 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Riverside city · 45404 · Near Campobello Island · Dayton North quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 1996
Trotwood city · 45417 · Miamisburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1908 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Perry township · 45345 · On Wysong Run · Brookville quadrangle
10 sheets, 1905 to 1986
Jefferson township · 45417 · On Little Bear Creek · Miamisburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Perry township · 45309 · On Wysong Run · Brookville quadrangle
10 sheets, 1905 to 1986
Washington township · 45458 · Springboro quadrangle
13 sheets, 1913 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Moraine city · 45439 · On Holes Creek · Dayton South quadrangle
14 sheets, 1913 to 1986
Huber Heights city · 45424 · On Poplar Creek · Dayton North quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 1996
German township · 45327 · On Little Twin Creek · Middletown quadrangle
12 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Jackson township · 45345 · On Diehl Run · Farmersville quadrangle
11 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Dayton city · 45405 · On Stillwater River · Dayton North quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 1996
Trotwood city · 45426 · Trotwood quadrangle
13 sheets, 1905 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Miami township · 45342 · On Opossum Creek · Miamisburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Trotwood city · 45426 · On North Branch Wolf Creek · Trotwood quadrangle
13 sheets, 1905 to 1986
Dayton city · 45405 · Near Buck Island (historical) · Dayton North quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 1996
Riverside city · 45431 · Near Rohrers Island · Fairborn quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 1986
Miami township · Near Shawnee Indian Mound · Dayton South quadrangle
14 sheets, 1913 to 1986
Trotwood city · 45417 · On Dry Run · Trotwood quadrangle
13 sheets, 1905 to 1986
German township · 45327 · On Little Twin Creek · Franklin quadrangle
13 sheets, 1908 to 1986
Vandalia city · 45371 · On Little Turtle Creek · Tipp City quadrangle
14 sheets, 1904 to 1986
No longer a settlement
Huber Heights city · 45424 · On Poplar Creek · Dayton North quadrangle
16 sheets, 1904 to 1996
Trotwood city · 45426 · On North Branch Wolf Creek · Trotwood quadrangle
13 sheets, 1905 to 1986
Union City township · 45322 · On Pigeye Creek · West Milton quadrangle
12 sheets, 1905 to 1986
Trotwood city · 45417 · On Garber Run · Miamisburg quadrangle
13 sheets, 1908 to 1986
The vanished settlements of Montgomery County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.
16 topographic sheets and 21 fire insurance atlases, 1887 to 1956
13 topographic sheets and 9 fire insurance atlases, 1886 to 1946
13 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1886 to 1932
10 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1949
13 topographic sheets and 3 fire insurance atlases, 1918 to 1932
Each is a separate federal document with its own page: a survey report, or the case file that argued a property on to the National Register. Both are public domain and reproduced word for word. There are too many to list here without burying the rest of this page.
The complete index for Montgomery County, and the vanished settlements.
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