Abbeyville, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44256. It stands on Gravel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mallet Creek quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mallet Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mallet Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mallet Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mallet Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mallet Creek quadrangle1:24000
In the 1861 county history
550 words on this townshipThe county history of 1861 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on York Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on York Township - 550 words.
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 376 shownMuseums hold 376 specimens collected within 10 miles of Abbeyville between 1884 and 1975: 339 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Roberts, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | not recorded | |
![]() | Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link | 1894 | Watson, J.R. | Medina Co. |
![]() | Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth | 1896 | Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08] | [label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County] |
![]() | Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 | 1884 | unknown | Medina |
![]() | Halictus confusus confusus | 1885 | H. E. Summers | Medina |
![]() | Lilium canadense L. | 1888 | E. Barrick | Chatham |
![]() | Mougeotia genuflexa (Roth) C.Agardh | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Plum Creek |
![]() | Aquilegia canadensis L. | 1897 | Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05] | [label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio] |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa subsp. interior Woodson | 1897 | Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea | The Western Reserve. Brunswick |
![]() | Culicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1897 | J. Hine | Medina |
![]() | Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray | 1897 | G. B. Ashcroft | Lester |
![]() | Hinea Townsend, 1916 | 1897 | J. Hine | Medina |
All 376 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Abbeyville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burbank Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
5 since 2013The National Weather Service names Abbeyville in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Hail | Abbeyville | $1,000 | The media reported quarter size hail in Medina. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Abbeyville | - | Trees downed along Marks Road, between Sleepy Hollow and Gayer Roads, about four-miles southwest of Brunswick. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Abbeyville | - | Healthy tree downed about four-miles NNW of Medina. Damage caused by outflow-dominant thunderstorms. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Abbeyville | - | The Valley City mesonet station, located five miles southwest of Brunswick, recorded a peak wind gust of 76 mph from a thunderstorm. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Abbeyville | - | A tree was down on the road. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pliny (historical) | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Mallet Creek | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Valley City Station | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Lester | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Valley City | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Brunswick | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Medina | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Franks Corner | 4.5 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Abbeyville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133462 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064290. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.

























