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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.

Abbeyville within Medina County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Abbeyville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Abbeyville, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched 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.

In the county-history sources

10,487 words on this township

History of Medina County and Ohio, Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Medina County, Giving an Account of Its Aboriginal Inhabitants ... Pioneer Incidents, Its Growth, Its Improvements, Organization of the County ... Biographical Sketches; Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc., Etc. .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on York Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Ohio, Oct. 16, 1833. May 2, 1863. Mr. Bowman born in Monroe Co., N. Y., July 21, 1816. He enlisted in Company D, 166th O. Y. I., and is a son of Judge Levi and Polly (Stone) ; served 113 days. Both of his grandfathers Branch, the old pioneers of York Township, were in the Revolutionary war, serving the col- He, together with his parents, came to York onies faithfully. His daughter Delpha is the Township in the fall of 1830, and, up to his wife of Levi Stone, and is a resident of York death, always made York his home. Mr. Township. Mr. Bowman owns 150 acres of well- Branch was reared on a farm, receiving a good improved land. He is a stanch Republican in common-school education. April 16. 1839, he politics, and he and wife are members of the was united in marriage with Miss Mary A. Disciples' Church at La Fayette Center. , Bowen, daughter of Peter and Polly (Apthorp)

Passage source: History of Medina County and Ohio, Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Medina County, Giving an Account of Its Aboriginal Inhabitants ... Pioneer Incidents, Its Growth, Its Improvements, Organization of the County ... Biographical Sketches; Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc., Etc. .., published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on York Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 376 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1890not recorded
Specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1894Watson, J.R.Medina Co.
Specimen of Nesaea verticillata (L.) KunthNesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth1896Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger Linnaeus, 17581884unknownMedina
A photograph of the species Halictus confusus, not of this specimenHalictus confusus confusus1885H. E. SummersMedina
A photograph of the species Lilium canadense, not of this specimenLilium canadense L.1888E. BarrickChatham
Mougeotia genuflexa (Roth) C.Agardh1896F. D. KelseyPlum Creek
Specimen of Aquilegia canadensis L.Aquilegia canadensis L.1897Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05][label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio]
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa subsp. interior WoodsonAsclepias tuberosa subsp. interior Woodson1897Ashcroft, G.B.; O. BereaThe Western Reserve. Brunswick
A photograph of the species Culicoides guttipennis, not of this specimenCulicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901)1897J. HineMedina
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1897G. B. AshcroftLester
Specimen of Hinea Townsend, 1916Hinea Townsend, 19161897J. HineMedina

All 376 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Burbank PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Medina County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013HailAbbeyville$1,000The media reported quarter size hail in Medina.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindAbbeyville-Trees downed along Marks Road, between Sleepy Hollow and Gayer Roads, about four-miles southwest of Brunswick.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAbbeyville-Healthy tree downed about four-miles NNW of Medina. Damage caused by outflow-dominant thunderstorms.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindAbbeyville-The Valley City mesonet station, located five miles southwest of Brunswick, recorded a peak wind gust of 76 mph from a thunderstorm.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAbbeyville-A tree was down on the road.

Every storm recorded in Medina County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Pliny (historical)1.5 miles14
Mallet Creek2.9 miles14
Valley City Station2.9 miles14
Lester2.9 miles14
Valley City3.7 miles14
Brunswick3.7 miles13
Medina4.2 miles13
Franks Corner4.5 miles14

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 AbbeyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133462The 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.