Bookwalter, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paint Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43128. The Survey maps it on the Jeffersonville quadrangle.
Then and now
1916 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Jeffersonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
5,832 words on this townshipHistory of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914; History of Fayette County Ohio, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Paint Township covers early settlement, incidents^educational, churches, secret organizations in, the war with garfield, bloomingbury.
Read the chapter on Paint Township - 5,832 words.
Specimens collected near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 17 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bookwalter between 1882 and 1972: 10 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 10 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by J. A. Burbaker, Kellerman, W.A., Lloyd, C.G. 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Podosphaera clandestina var. clandestina (Wallr.) Lév. | 1882 | Kellerman, W.A. | America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae. |
![]() | Spiraea tomentosa L. | 1882 | Kellerman, W.A. | America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae. |
![]() | Phellinus ferruginosus (Schrad.) Pat. | 1898 | Lloyd, C.G. | College Hill, Ohio |
![]() | Opsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 1881 | 1926 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Sugar Creek, near NE corner of Clinton County OH locality is approximate based off Fishes of Ohio distribution map |
![]() | Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773) | 1937 | not recorded | |
| Sphaeriidae | 1962 | Murphy, William | Jeffersonville, KOA camp | |
![]() | Perlesta Banks, 1906 | 1966 | J. A. Burbaker | |
![]() | Perlesta lagoi Stark, 1989 | 1966 | J. A. Burbaker | |
| Lymnaeidae | 1972 | Murphy, William | Jeffersonville, KOA camp | |
| Physidae | 1972 | Murphy, William | Jeffersonville, KOA camp |
All 17 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bookwalter in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bookwalter | $10,000 | A tractor trailer was blown over on Interstate 71 due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bookwalter | $2,000 | Trees and large tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bookwalter | $1,000 | A tree was downed on Harold Road, north of Jeffersonville. |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blessing | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Jeffersonville | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Yatesville | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Shady Grove | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasant View | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Parrott | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| West Lancaster | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Hagler | 8.1 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070687. 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.
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.














