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

Burtonville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45177. It stands on Indian Run. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington quadrangle.

Burtonville within Clinton County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

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 Burtonville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Burtonville, surveyed 1907

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.

In the county-history sources

7,216 words on this township

History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

East from Wilmington to the township line, the land is level. but the southeast portion of the township is somewhat undulating. Following the source of Cowan's creek southwest from Burtonville, the Jand is rough and broken. Between Cowan's creek and Wilmington, the land is more level, but along Todd's fork. north and west of Wilmington, it is undulating and well-drained. For the most part, the soil of the township is a dark loam, extending to some depth, and is particularly adapted to the culture of grain and grasses. Along Cowan's and Lytle's creeks, the soil is of a mixture of dark and yellow loam and is especially good for wheat. Along Todd's fork the soil is a mixture of loam and clay, and the bottom lands, although small, are very valuable on aceount of the richness of the soil.

Passage source: History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915.

Peyton Burton, a well-known millwright, built a number of mills in Clinton county and also remodeled several. He built a steam grist-mill just south of Wilmington and, as there was no mill of this kind in this section of the county, it did an extensive business. He also built a steam grist-mill on Cowan's creek and later built one run by water power at Burtonville. The latter mill was sold to Thomas Custis and afterward was destroyed by fire.

Passage source: History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915.

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 Union Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 518 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 518 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burtonville between 1892 and 1974: 435 Animalia, 55 Fungi, 25 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, A. (Avery) 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
Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Snell	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Boletus bicolor Raddi	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Desmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.	1892	J. S. Vanderwort	New Antioch
Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)	1911	not recorded	Clinton, North America
Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Wilmington
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.J.	Wilmington
Parmelia Acharius, 1803	1924	Taylor, L.	Wilmington
Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf	1924	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map
Mustela frenata Lichtenstein, 1831	1927	Hazard, F. O.	Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1929	Hazard, F. O.	near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio

All 518 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burtonville in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
May 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Burtonville	$10,000	A second tornado touched down southeast of Wilmington along Farmers Road a few minutes after the first brief touchdown near NWS Wilmington. The extent of the damage included a barn roof partially destroyed with damage to its walls, a shed flipped and blown off its foundation, two trees uprooted and a number of large limbs downed. Metal siding was ripped off the barn roof and thrown 20 yards. This tornado was also rated an EF0 with maximum winds at 65 to 78 mph.
December 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$4,000	A tree fell onto power lines on Cuba Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$3,000	Several large trees were uprooted on Leslie Drive.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$3,000	Several trees knocked down.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$2,000	One large tree, one small tree, and numerous branches were reported down on Berlin Road due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$1,000	A tree was downed on State Route 134 near Davids Drive.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$1,000	A power pole was snapped along U.S. Route 68.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$1,000	Numerous tree limbs were downed across Leslie Drive.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$500	A seven inch diameter tree was knocked over.
June 2019	Flood	Burtonville	-	High water was reported at a property along Southwind Blvd.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	-	ODOT garage station measured the gust.
May 2025	Hail	Burtonville	-	no account filed
May 2025	Hail	Burtonville	-	no account filed
May 2025	Hail	Burtonville	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Burtonville	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Burtonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Wilmington	2.9 miles	14
Town And Country Estates	3.2 miles	14
Morrisville	3.5 miles	11
New Antioch	3.6 miles	11
Cuba	4.0 miles	11
Wallopsburg	4.6 miles	11
Starbucktown	5.1 miles	14
Clinton	5.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056743. 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.