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

Antrim, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43973. The Survey maps it on the Antrim quadrangle.

Antrim within Guernsey County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Antrim, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Antrim, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

1,678 words on this township

Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Edward Bratton was the first settler in Madison Township, and removed from there to Jefferson Township. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and in 1799 removed with his father to the new territory northwest of the Ohio River, then opening for settlement. Crossing the river at Wheeling, the Brattons made their way westward to the forks of McMahon Creek, three miles below where the town of Belmont now stands, and at that time five miles west of any other settlement. From that place they removed in 1802 up the Zane Trac^, near what is known as the Miiner property. In the spring of 1803 or 1804 Joseph Wright emigrated from Ireland, and located near. the same place. In 1805 young Bratton married, and, taking the trail of General Broadhead's expedition in 1780, when that officer marched from Wheeling on the Coshocton campaign against the Indians, he followed it as far as where Antrim now stands. The trail entered the present site of that town near where tlie old Madison College building stood, and kept along the ridge until it passed the head of the ravine on the north side, when it struck off west along what is known as the old New Comerstown Road. Here Mr. Bratton left it and followed the Government road, out of which the brush liad been cut, from Steuben ville to Zane 's Crossing until he reached the present site of Winchester, where he pitched his tent, having no neighbors nearer than the Carpenters, near where Londonderry now stands, or Beattys, at the present site of Cambridge. There were, however, five Indian families residing in the neighborhood.

Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895.

The first church was built at Winchester by the Methodists. The first tavern was built in Winchester by John Keepers. Antrim was laid out by Alexander Alexander in 1819. The first blacksmith of Antrim was William Rusk, who settled there in 1820. The first store was kept by Alexander, the second by Stockdale.

The first church built was erected by the Seceders, and the second by the Associated Presbyterians. The first school was held in a log house moved from Londonderry Township to Antrim. The Tedricks and Bonnells laid out the town of Winchester.

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 Madison Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Antrim between 2009 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15270
9 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15193
9 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	14410
22 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11240
10 April 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2014	Debris and open burning	7.1 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 125 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 125 specimens collected within 10 miles of Antrim between 1912 and 1975: 87 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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
Clavaria kunzei Fr.	1923	Treat, Dorothy	Birmingham
Taphrina caerulescens (Desm. & Mont.) Tul.	1912	Bartenstein T. E.	Warrentown
Isoetes muricata Durieu	1913	L. S. Hazel M, D.D. Hopkins	Brady's Lake.
Polyporus caesius (Schrad.) Fr.	1923	Nicholson Lawrence	Vermilion River, 1.5 Mi. S. of Birmingham, Erie Co. Frondose Woods along
Stereum rameale (Pers.) Burt	1923	Grover F. O.	Vermilion River, 1.5 Mi. S. of Birmingham, Erie Co. in Woods along
Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
Notropis buccatus (Cope, 1865)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
Phoxinus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system

All 125 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antrim in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Antrim	$10,000	Trees were reported to be blown down near Antrim.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Antrim	$10,000	Law enforcement reported several trees down with one of them on a house.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Antrim	$3,000	Trees were reported to be downed near Antrim.
April 2024	Flood	Antrim	-	Route 22 closed due to flooding along Brushy Fork.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Antrim	-	A storm total of 4.90 inches was recorded.
April 2007	Hail	Antrim	-	The public reported penny size hail southwest of Antrim.
May 2005	Flash Flood	Antrim	-	Parts of Rte 22 flooded between Antrim and South Fork Park after 2.2 inches of rain.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Antrim	-	Thunderstorm rains accumulating over 3 inches in only a few hours produced minor roadway flooding.
June 1998	Flash Flood	Antrim	-	Thunderstorm rains forced Brushy Fork Creek out of its banks, with flooding reported on US Route 22.
May 2016	Hail	Antrim	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Antrim	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Antrim	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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
Winterset	3.3 miles	17
Londonderry	3.9 miles	16
Middlebourne	4.9 miles	16
Birmingham	5.6 miles	17
Elizabethtown	6.4 miles	17
Odell	6.6 miles	17
Easton	6.9 miles	17
Oakgrove	7.0 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 Antrim	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133489	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 1048465. 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.