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

Butterworth, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45039. It stands on Salt Run. The Survey maps it on the Mason quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Butterworth within Warren County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Butterworth (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Butterworth (historical), surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

33,569 words on this township

The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Hamilton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In this year, Col. James Ford came from Maine and settled here, succeed ing Butterworth & Knowlton in the mercantile business. CoL Ford proved himself to be a public-spirited and enterprising citizen, possessed of excel lent business capacities. He carried on the merchandising business with marked success up to the time of his death, which occurred in the spring of 1865. At the time of the Colonel's arrival, and for some time afterward, the citizens of Maineville were making strenuous efforts to induce the Government to establish a post office in the village, but without success. Finally Ford took hold of the matter, and having a personal acquaintance with some of the lead ing officials at Washington, succeeded in bringing about the desired result and a post office was established in 1854, Ford receiving the appointment of Postmaster, a position which he continued to hold, notwithstanding the administrative changes, until his death. In this connection it will not be invidious to mention the name of Sullivan Stevens, although still living. Stevens has been closely identified with the commercial interests of the place for nearly a third of a century. During these long years of business relations with the people, he has never failed to command their entire confidence and esteem.

Passage source: The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882.

The first schoolhouse in what is now Massie Township, was built in 1817, on the land of Isaac Wales, about one and one-half miles north of Harveysburg. It was a rough log house covered with clapboards, held down by weight poles, with a puncheon floor, stick chimney, and no door. An opening in the logs, covered with greased paper, admitted a little light, and served as a window. The first teacher of the school was Judith Butterworth (nee Welch), who is now living in Laporte, Ind., in the eighty-second year of her age. The school was next taught by Robert Way, of Pennsylvania, and afterwards by Jeremiah Reynolds, Isaac Thombury and others. It was a prosperous school from the first, and soon became so popular that scholars came many miles to attend it. The school was so large, and the house was so small, that in pleasant weather the scholars were obliged to study in

Passage source: The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882.

The Friends Meeting House, a one-story brick building at Qoachester, was .erected about the year 1818. The ground upon which it was built, one acre, was deeded October 17, 1816, by James and Mahlon Roach to Isaac Thomas, Jr., Benjamin Nincle, Jonah Cadwallader and Andrew Whitacre, Trustees of the Friends of "Hopewell Meeting." It was given for both church and burial purposes. The following -named persons were the heads of families then belonging to this society of Friends : Benjamin Butterworth, Robert Whitacre, Thomas

Passage source: The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882.

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 Hamilton Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 3,510 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,510 specimens collected within 10 miles of Butterworth (historical) between 1850 and 1974: 2,743 Animalia, 645 Fungi, 80 Plantae, 38 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14529, A. Gaufin, A. H. W. Povah 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
Ipomoea lacunosa L.	1877	Joseph Francis James	Loveland
Puccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Arthur	1878	James, F.	Loveland
Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1892	H. Smith	Creek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
Fomes applanatus (Pers.) Fr.	1850	James D. L.	Loveland
Eragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.	1877	James, J.F.	Loveland
Polyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.	1877	James D. L.	Loveland
Rumex altissimus Wood	1877	J. F. James	Loveland.
Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	Collector(s): unknown	Foster Point
Fomes scutellatus (Schwein.) Cooke	1878	James D. L.	Loveland
Justicia americana (L.) Vahl	1878	Lloyd, Curtis Gates	Loveland
Polyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr.	1879	James D. L.	Loveland
Polyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr.	1879	James D. L.	Loveland

All 3,510 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Butterworth (historical): 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. 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
Dravo South Lebanon Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Michael Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Turtlecreek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Warren 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
Loveland Park	0.5 miles	15
Foster	1.1 miles	15
Twenty Mile Stand	1.3 miles	15
Landen	1.6 miles	15
Maineville	2.0 miles	14
Murdock	2.7 miles	14
Hopkinsville	3.1 miles	14
Kings Mills	3.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062419. 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.