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Campbellstown, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45320. The Survey maps it on the New Paris quadrangle. It stands 3,898 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1915 to 1986The 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.
Compare 1915 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS New Paris quadrangle1:48000
- 1918 USGS New Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS New Paris quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS New Paris quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS New Paris quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS New Paris quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Jackson township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Early Burial Places
The first graveyard in the township is in section nineteen, on the Indiana line, on the farm now occupied by Jacob Crowell. It was laid out by the pioneers of the- Elkhorn settlement. The first person buried there was a young man named Thomas Hollett, killed by a falling tree. Hereare buried John Bozworth, Michael Crowell, Elijah Wade, and others of the fisrt settlers.
In the county-history sources
75,976 words on this townshipHistory of Preble County Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Jefferson township on the north, Washington on the east, Dixon on the south, and the Indiana line on the west, define Jackson township. In the original division of Preble county into townships, Jackson was embraced in Jefferson and Dixon townships. On December 18, 1816, it was ordered that the eighth township, first range, be incorporated into one township for county and other purposes, and that Jackson become a distinct township. The first election was held at the house of Adam Starr. William Stephens, who was elected clerk, soon afterwards moved to Louisiana. John Mc- Cord and John Starr were the first justices of the peace. The present officers are as follows: William C. Mills, C. W. Baker and John B. Kelly, trustees; J. C. Adyelott, treasurer; William A. Arrasmith, clerk; James Morrow, of New Hope, and L. C. Young, of Florence Station, justices. The elections are held at Campbellstown.
Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.
Frederick Stark emigrated to Preble county from New Hampshire, in the year 1820, and settled in Jackson township, section twenty-nine, on the farm now owned by Henry Swisher. He was born in Stratford county, New Hampshire, December, 1794; was married in 1820 to Abigail Doloff, a native of the same place, and born in 1800. They had ten children born to them, five of whom survive, as follows: Mrs. Robert Bell, who resides a short distance east of Campbellstown; Mrs. Mc- Whinney, who lives in Franklin, Warren county, Ohio; John F. and Temperance L., residing on the home place, and Benjamin F., in Eaton.
Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.
Joseph Bell came from the State of Tennessee in 1829, and settled in this township in section thirty-four. He was born in North Carolina in the year1792, and died in 1842. Of a family of nine children only three are now living, viz: Robert, Sophia, and John. Robert married Mary S. Stark, daughter of Frederick Stark, whose settlement has been noted, and resides in Jackson township, a short distance east of Campbellstown. He has four children. Sophia is the wife of William McWhinney, and resides in Jefferson township; John lives in Kansas.
Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.
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 Jackson Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 779 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 779 specimens collected within 10 miles of Campbellstown between 1876 and 1974: 750 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin, B. Fink 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1876 | not recorded | New Paris |
 | Uria lomvia lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1896 | Stewart, R. T. (Robert T.) | Israel Twp, Fairhaven, Preble, Ohio, USA |
 | Septoria oenotherae Westend. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff. | 1910 | Braun, Lucy E. | |
 | Physcia subtilis Degelius | 1914 | B. Fink | Eaton |
 | Scoliciosporum umbrinum (Ach.) Arnold | 1914 | Fink, B. | Eaton |
 | Steccherinum pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker | 1925 | M.L. Lohman | Eaton |
 | Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein. | 1928 | Mendenhall E. W. | New Paris |
 | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Fourmile Creek, within south Dixon township, near Boston, Dixon township |
 | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Fourmile Creek, within south Dixon township, near Boston, Dixon township |
 | Lythrurus fasciolaris (Gilbert, 1891) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Fourmile Creek, within south Dixon township, near Boston, Dixon township |
 | Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Fourmile Creek, within south Dixon township, near Boston, Dixon township |
All 779 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| New Westville | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| West Florence | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Belfast (historical) | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Orangeburg (historical) | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Cedar Springs | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Gettysburg | 4.2 miles | 8 | |
| Ebenezer | 5.0 miles | 8 |
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 Campbellstown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19460787 | The 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 1056762. 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.
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