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Broadway, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43007. The Survey maps it on the Peoria quadrangle. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Broadway within Union County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Broadway, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Broadway, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 printed 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

32,256 words on this township

The History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Taylor Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Henry Crist was born in Sullivan County, N. Y.; he settled in Taylor Township, Union County, in 1848, but left his native State in 1836, settling in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1836, where he resided about twelve years. He married Miriam Hollister, of New York. He resided on his farm in Taylor Township twenty-eight years, and about 1876 removed to Marysville, where he now resides. The above mentioned names embrace the larger portion of the earlier settlers of this township. Below we give additional names of persons who settled prior to 1850, and before its erection as Taylor Township, to wit : B. Burgess, Amos Beard, Samuel Cousin, Joseph Carter, Lemuel Carter, Edward Gray, C. Goodrich, William Graham, Hezekiah Hodges, Joseph W. Hisey, Henry Hisey, Thomas E. Lockwood, Stephen McLean, William McMonegal, John Parker, Benjamin Pearl, Sylvanus Smith, Simon Shirk, Joseph Simpson, Daniel Shirk, Tellatiah Safl!brd, Daniel Sanders, Jesse Taylor, John Turner, William Taylor, Corbin Wigle, Thomas Wigle, Charles Wilson, John A. Welch and Oliver H. P. Ward.

Passage source: The History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883.

About 1854-55, Thomas and James Yearsley built a steam saw-mill, just west of the village of Broadway, which was the first mill in Taylor Township. The above parties continued to run this mill most of the time until it went out of use, about 1868. This mill did an extensive business, sawing nearly all the lumber for the first frame houses of this neighborhood and vicinity. At one time the}' had attached a " corn-cracker," which did considerable business for a few years. About 1857-58, Messrs. Brown & Shaw erected a steam saw-mill, located about five miles south of Broadwaj^, on the Marysville pike, which continued in operation till about 1867, when it was burned down and was never rebuilt.

Passage source: The History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883.

In 1867-68, Messrs. Gofi" & Ray erected a steam saw-mill one mile east of Broadway, on the Marysville pike, near the railroad, which is still in operation ; it is a good mill, and they are doing a prosperous business. In 1881, Messrs. Morris & Albaugh erected a grist and saw mill combined, on the east bank of Blues Creek, near the east boundary line of Taylor Township. This is called a No. 1 mill, and is doing a good business.

Passage source: The History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883.

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 Taylor Township - it names this place 57 more 57 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 378 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 378 specimens collected within 10 miles of Broadway between 1880 and 1975: 349 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 4 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B., D. & B., D., B., D. & K., D., Baumgartner, L. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581880not recordedMarysville, Union, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Haliaeetus leucocephalus, not of this specimenHaliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766)1881not recordedPleasant Valley, Union, Ohio, USA
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1894Mrs. Smyth
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Tetraphis pellucida, not of this specimenTetraphis pellucida Hedw.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Thelia asprella, not of this specimenThelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull.1894Mrs. Smyth
Uredo1897W. A. Kellerman
Uromyces plumbarius Peck1897W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Rhytisma Fr., not of this specimenRhytisma Fr.1901W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Cercospora maianthemi, not of this specimenCercospora maianthemi Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Scolecotrichum graminis, not of this specimenScolecotrichum graminis Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
Scolicotrichum graminis Fuckel1902Kellerman, William AshbrookWest Mansfield

All 378 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broadway in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBroadway$3,000Power poles and trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBroadway$2,000Large tree limbs were downed.
June 2003HailBroadway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Taylor Centre (historical)0.9 miles14
Peoria2.6 miles14
Raymond2.9 miles14
Summersville4.1 miles12
Otter4.5 miles14
Claiborne4.7 miles11
Parrott Village4.7 miles13
York Center5.1 miles12

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 BroadwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4972366The 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 1056725. 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.