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

Bachman, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45309. The Survey maps it on the Brookville quadrangle.

Bachman within Montgomery County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bachman, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Bachman, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

18,834 words on this township

The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Clay Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Wenger Lawn is a Hag station on the Dayton & Union Railroad, one lie from Bachman. In 1876, a store and warehouse was opened by Solomon iod. The same year, a United Brethren Church was erected. Mr. Good is e Pastor. In 1853, the saw mill now owned and operated by William Long is built by Daniel Lasure.

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.

The population of Brookville, the principal village of the township, is 5( being a gain of 165 in the last decade. Of Phillipsburg it is 232, being a g< of 45 in the last ten years ; of South Arlington it is 149, being a gain 25 since 1870 ; of Dodson it is 77, being a gain of 30 in the last decade ; Bachman it is 66, being a loss of one in the last ten years. At this rate decline, this village will be " wiped out" of existence in 660 years ; of Wen^j Lawn, it is 41, a clear gain in the last ten years.

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, 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 Clay Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 303 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 303 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bachman between 1897 and 1972: 297 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, John, Arden R. Gaufin, BOYER AND DUELLMAN 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
Uredo	1897	Prof. W.A. Kellerman
Ferrissia rivularis (Say, 1817)	1904	Allen, John	Brookville
Septoria glumarum Pass.	1918	Paxton G. E.	New Lebanon
Bombus citrinus (Smith, 1854)	1929	Zeisert, E. E.	Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bombus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)	1929	Zeisert, E. E.	Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1929	not recorded
Bombus nevadensis auricomus (Robertson, 1903)	1929	Zeisert, E. E.	Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1929	not recorded
Bombus vagans Smith, 1854	1929	Zeisert, E. E.	Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bremus americanorum (Fabricius, 1775)	1929	Zeisert, E. E.	Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bremus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)	1929	Zeisert, E. E.	Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bremus impatiens (Cresson, 1863)	1929	Zeisert, E. E.	Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States

All 303 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bachman: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Phillipsburg Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Phillipsburg-#421	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Wengerlawn	0.9 miles	10
Dodson	1.1 miles	10
Arlington	1.7 miles	10
Brookville	3.0 miles	10
Pyrmont	3.5 miles	10
Phillipsburg	4.1 miles	9
Swanktown	4.2 miles	10
Brookville Lakes Estates	4.5 miles	13

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 Bachman	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698464	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 1064369. 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.