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

Boughtonville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ripley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44890. The Survey maps it on the Greenwich quadrangle.

Boughtonville within Huron County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Boughtonville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Boughtonville, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1896 county history

1,085 words on this township

The county history of 1896 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Ripley Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Ripley Township - 1,085 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 678 shown

Museums hold 678 specimens collected within 10 miles of Boughtonville between 1885 and 1974: 516 Plantae, 81 Animalia, 66 Fungi, 15 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Baumgartner, L., C. E. Jennings 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
Hemiarcyria stipata (Schwein.) Rostaf., 1876	1885	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum inaequale Peck, 1878	1885	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Chondrioderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Rostaf., 1873	1886	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Trichia proximella P.Karst., 1879	1889	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel., 1792	1889	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 1899	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum ellipsosporum Rostaf., 1876	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum relatum Morgan, 1896	1890	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Calonema aureum Morgan, 1893	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Didymium eximium Peck, 1878	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein., 1805	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston
Physarum sulphureum Alb. & Schwein., 1805	1891	A. P. Morgan	Preston

All 678 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Boughtonville: 4 past producers. None of them 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
Costein Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Costein Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Montgomery Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Montgomery Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms nearby

2 since 2023

The National Weather Service names Boughtonville in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Boughtonville	$60,000	An EF1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 105 mph exhibited deviant west-to-east motion in the Greenwich area. The tornado started in vicinity of Townline Road 12 and Edwards Road, where several softwood trees were snapped. The tornado struck a business, where it damaged an office, several silos, an outbuilding, and some equipment. The tornado followed Townline Road 12 east to Greenwich Milan Townline Road, where additional tree damage occurred along with a clear damage path in a field. Additional trees were downed along Omega Road before the tornado dissipated near OH-13, northeast of Greenwich.
May 2024	Hail	Boughtonville	-	Hail up to quarter-size in North Fairfield.

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Delphi	1.5 miles	13
Branchwood Estates	3.3 miles	13
North Fairfield	3.5 miles	13
New Haven	4.0 miles	13
Coble Village	4.3 miles	13
Hanville Corners	4.6 miles	13
Plymouth	4.9 miles	13
Greenwich	5.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064470. 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.