Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Amity, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Pike Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43050. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle.

Amity within Knox County

Then and now

1912 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Amity, surveyed 1966

Topographic sheet of Amity, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

309,842 words on this township

A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive; Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes .., published 1862; History Knox County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Pike Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The entire voters in 1822 numbered nineteen. Their names we give : John Arnold, Robert Kennedy, Jacob Swails, Thomas Elwell, Wm. Wright, Aaron Wilson, John Scoles, Wm. Smith, Philip Armentrout, Benj. Austin, John Butler, Wm. Spry, Erancis Popham, David Holloway, Thomas Scoles, John Gordon, Andrew Scoles, Cyrus Mc- Donald, and George Scoles. In 1820, John Arnold listed the taxable property, and received $5 therefor. Amity was laid out in 1832, and contains about 150 inhabitants, among them wagon makers, Adam Cole, John Scarborough ; tanners, John ^yrick, George McClurg ; shoemakers, John Cain, George Nyrick ; tavern keeper, ^ewel Dowds. There are two stores. The post-office is called " Democracy." There are three churches : Baptist, Bev. Arnold, Pastor ; Methodist, Bev. Ball ; and Deciple. The j)hysicians are E. Mast and W. E. Edwards.

Passage source: A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive; Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes .., published 1862.

The first grist-mill in Pike township was built by John Arnold in 1831, or Schenck's creek, on the southwest quarter of section No. 8 It was a small mill, containing but one run of buhrs, but did a good business for one of its size, grinding sometimes one hundred bushels in the course of twenty-four hours. It continued in operation till about 1851. The next grist-mill was built by a man by the name of Hillis, who erected a small mill on the northwest quarter of section No. 23, He sold out to James Stephens. Stephens sold to Benjamin Spry, who sold to John Walkey in 1836. Mr. Walkey put in two run of buhrs, and operated the mill until 1874.

Passage source: History Knox County, Ohio, published 1881.

David Braddock kept store at Braddock's Cross roads trom 1840 till 1850, being the only store kept outside the villages of Amity and North Liberty. David Hatch, the son-in-law of Isaac Vernon, who located on the northwest quarter of section twenty-four now occupied by J.R. Phillips, in 1834 brought with him the first threshing-machine and first cooking stove seen in Pike township.

Passage source: History Knox County, Ohio, 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 Pike Township - it names this place 28 more 28 times.

Fires near this place

31 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Amity between 2004 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15805
14 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15810
3 May 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1104
1 May 2015	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1094
1 May 2015	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1091
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15611
6 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15113
28 April 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1201

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 364 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 364 specimens collected within 10 miles of Amity between 1837 and 1971: 307 Animalia, 33 Fungi, 23 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, A. P. Morgan, Andriessen, H. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke	1883	Dr. W.A. Kellerman
Pestalotia De Not., 1841	1883	W. A. Kellermann	No locality on label
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	Kellerman
Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1837	Müller	Ohio
Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1863	Turati (comte), Ercole
Delphinium exaltatum Aiton	1877	E Sheets
Hydrastis canadensis L.	1877	E Sheets
Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)	1879	Willard L. Maris
Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Lobelia inflata L.	1881	Andriessen, H.	near Fredericktown, OH
Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
Phyllosticta verbenae Sacc., 1879	1883	Prof. Kellerman

All 364 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amity in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2008: 1 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
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Amity	$50,000	Numerous trees were reported down across the county as the line of severe thunderstorms moved through.
June 2008	Hail	Amity	-	Penny size hail was observed and accumulated enough to cover the ground.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pleasant Valley (historical)	1.9 miles	12
Four Corners	2.5 miles	14
Apple Valley	2.6 miles	12
Monroe Mills	4.4 miles	12
Berger	4.5 miles	14
Nunda	4.6 miles	13
North Liberty	4.9 miles	14
Howard	5.2 miles	12

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 Amity	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133479	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 1064321. 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.

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.

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.