Butler, Ohio

Butler grew from 933 to 941 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 1994

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.

• 1912 USGS Perrysville quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Perrysville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Perrysville quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Butler quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Butler quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Butler quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Butler quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Worthington township, in the words of 1880.

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Butler between 2005 and 2019, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Richland Cottage Area
• Saint Johns (historical)
• Gatton Rock
• Lockhart
• Newville
• Hastings

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Museums hold 109 specimens collected within 10 miles of Butler between 1879 and 1973: 100 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M.H., Aknown, Berra, T. M. (Tim M.) & Berra, T. M. (Tim M.) 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
	Osmunda claytoniana L.	1896	Wilkerson, E.	Common in low grounds.
	Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.
	Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter, J.B.
	Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	Porter, J.B.
	Rallus limicola Vieillot, 1819	1881	A.M.H.
	Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1882	not recorded
	Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1924	not recorded	[state]
	Boloria bellona (Fabricius, 1775)	1927	not recorded
	Aglais milberti (Godart, 1819)	1929	Wilfred Hemingway
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Clear Fork Mohican River, at Bellville, ~0.2 mi N of Bellville, Jefferson township
	Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Clear Fork Mohican River, at Bellville, ~0.2 mi N of Bellville, Jefferson township
	Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Clear Fork Mohican River, at Bellville, ~0.2 mi N of Bellville, Jefferson township

All 109 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Butler: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Richland County

The National Weather Service names Butler in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Richland County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060914. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.