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

Babbtown, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bethel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45371. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tipp City quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Babbtown within Miami County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Babbtown (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Babbtown (historical), surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Bethel township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Miami County, Ohio, published 1880 - Bethel Township

Game

All kinds of game abounded in the forests. The hunters killed large numbers of squirrels, turkeys, pheasants, etc. Wolves, bears and panthers were frequently encountered. It is related that David H. Morris, Sr., killed three panthers in one morning. This sturdy old pioneer was very fond of hunting. He required his boys to practice shooting daily ; when their record was poor, a general boxing of the ears was the result.

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In the county-history sources

26,185 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Bethel Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 214 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 214 specimens collected within 10 miles of Babbtown (historical) between 1835 and 1975: 184 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 10 Plantae, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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
Quercus macrocarpa Michx.	1835	Frank
Uredo	1897	Prof. W.A. Kellerman
Polyporus radicatus Schwein.	1909	Thomas	Troy
Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, Miami [County]
Carex albursina E.Sheld.	1835	Collector unknown
Carex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig	1835	Collector unspecified
Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. occidentalis (A.Gray) J.M.Gillett	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, in ditione civitatis Miami
Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Marssonina panattoniana (Berl.) Magnus	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. arbuscula (Berk. & Broome) Nann.-Bremek., 1975	1897	Thaxter, R.	USA, Florida, Cocoanut Grove
Mermis Dujardin, 1842	1897	F. Johnston	New Carlisle
Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766	1898	Collector(s): L. Kumlein	Milton, Ohio

All 214 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Babbtown (historical): 5 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Tipp Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Tipp Stone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cassel Sand & Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tipp City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Tipp Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Troy Plant & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Valley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Vandalia Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Miami 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
Grayson	1.7 miles	14
Tipp City	1.9 miles	14
Cowlesville	2.6 miles	14
West Charleston	3.3 miles	14
Evanston	3.6 miles	14
Ginghamsburg	4.2 miles	14
Brown	4.3 miles	13
Haven View	5.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067345. 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.