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

Astoria, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45042. The Survey maps it on the Middletown quadrangle.

Astoria within Butler County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Astoria, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Astoria, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

11,332 words on this township

A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Mapison Townsuip was originally a portion of Lemon. It lies on the north border of the county, and is divided from Lemon by the Miami River, which flows from north-east to south-west, and separates the two townships in such a way that the lower part of Madison is very narrow. Nearly the whole distance north of Trenton the hills border on the river; but below the bottom spreads out, and forms a wide alluvial plain. At Middletown the river divides in two parts, the old and the new, the latter increasing in volume year by year, and the former lessening. The bridge across the river here is precarious, and liable to be washed away by the flood at any time. A couple of miles west of the river the hills rise to a great height, and afford beautiful views.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

David Banker erected a fine mill on the property where the present Mr. Banker now resides, that was long known as Banker's mills, and had at an early day customers from near Richmond, Indiana, and from near Greenville on the north. He continued to reside on this property till his death, which happened on the 25th of January, 1862, at the age of eighty-four. He came into the world the second year of the Revolutionary War, and died in the second year of the great Rebellion. When he first came to Ohio he brought with him, in a large pair of saddle-bags, the metallic part of a set of carpenter's tools, with which to carve out his fortune in this new country, and carried them in that way on horseback

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

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.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 231 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 231 specimens collected within 10 miles of Astoria between 1880 and 1974: 114 Fungi, 101 Animalia, 16 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. C. Billups, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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
Adiantum pedatum L.	1929	?	Hueston Woods.
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)	1880	not recorded	Monroe
Storeria dekayi wrightorum Trapido, 1944	1880	not recorded	Monroe
Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	not recorded	Monroe
Physella gyrina (Say, 1821)	1898	A. C. Billups	Middletown
Polyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr.	1910	Overholts L. O.	West Elkton
Mycosphaerellaceae	1914	Overholts, L. O.	West Elkton
Polyporus biformis Fr.	1914	L.O. Overholts	West Elkton
Polyporus durescens Overh.	1914	Overholts L. O.	West Elkton
Russula flocculosa Burl.	1914	L. O. Overholts
Stereum bicolor (Pers.) Fr.	1914	Overholts L. O.	West Elkton
Clavaria P.Micheli, 1729	1917	Overholts L. O.	West Elkton

All 231 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Astoria: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Middletown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Moorman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Moorman Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Astoria in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Astoria	$10,000	Numerous trees were downed in a wooded area along about a 100 foot swath.
June 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Astoria	$10,000	The tornado initially touched down in Preble County, about 1.6 miles northwest of Browns Chapel at 19:38 EST. The tornado moved southeast, crossing into Butler County at 19:41 EST, about 0.8 miles south southwest of Browns Chapel. The tornado then continued southeast across Elk Creek Road toward No Mans Road where some tree damage was found. In this location the damage was found to be considerably more broad and of lesser intensity, suggesting the tornado was lifting as it moved south along Elk Creek Road and No Mans Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Astoria	$1,000	A tree was downed.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Jacksonburg	2.4 miles	9
West Middletown	3.6 miles	12
Miltonville	4.0 miles	12
Poast Town	4.5 miles	12
Harlan Park	4.7 miles	12
Poast Town Heights	4.7 miles	12
Middletown	4.7 miles	12
Bon Veue	5.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056206. 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.