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

Clinton, 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. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington quadrangle.

Clinton 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 Clinton, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Clinton, 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.

One of the very earliest pioneers of Clinton county was Timothy Bennett, who came to the Northwest territory in 1800 and, in the middle of March, 1801, settled one and one-half miles east of where Wilmington now stands. He was born in New Jersey, near Philadelphia, on January 27, 1765, and little is known of his early history except that he was reared on a farm. After reaching maturity, he moved to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he was married. in 1789, to Elizabeth Hoblitt. the daughter of Michael Hoblitt, a native of Germany and the ancestors of the Hoblitts of Clinton and Greene counties. In the fall of 1789. Mr. Bennett. in company with his wife's father and family, went down the Ohio river to Limestone, now Maysville, Kentucky. Although the Indians were exceedingly troublesome at that time, the party managed to land in safety. After exploring the country in various directions. they finally located at a point near the present town of Versailles, in Woodford county. and here Mr. Bennett lived for ten years. In the fall of 1790, Mr. Bennett joined the expedition of General Harmar. which rendezyvoused at Cincinnati, then a small village. whence they marched north to old Chillicothe. Mr. Bennett was honorably discharged near this point and sent home, having become too lame to travel on account of a cancer on his leg.

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

After a most eventful and successful cnreer as a nioneer. Mr. Bennett prssed away in 1827, after having made his will in 1823. He is believed to have been twice elected to the office of county commissioner of Clinton county, but ceased to fill this position in 1815.

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

George Haworth, another prominent pioneer of Clinton county, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1748, the son of James Haworth, a native of Pennsylvania, and the grandson of George Haworth, who came from Lancashire, England, with William

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 - it names this place 26 more 26 times.

Photographs

4 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Laymon Road Bridge, J. W. Denver Williams Park, Wilmington, Clinton County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Midland School Building, Northwest corner of Broadway & Cuba Avenue, Midland, Clinton County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Covered Bridge, Route 3, Clarksville, Clinton County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

E. Harris House, State Route No. 73, New Vienna, Clinton County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 295 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 295 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clinton between 1892 and 1974: 259 Animalia, 26 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 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
Clavaria muscoides Linnaeus, 1753	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan Creek
Clavaria striata Pers.	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan Creek
Desmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.	1892	J. S. Vanderwort	New Antioch
Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1901	Hartley C. P.	Sabina
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

All 295 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Clinton: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Melvin Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Melvin Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working 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
Melvin	1.9 miles	11
Starbucktown	2.0 miles	14
Powderlick	2.1 miles	11
New Antioch	4.1 miles	11
Reesville	4.1 miles	11
Wilmington	4.3 miles	14
Burtonville	5.4 miles	14
Bloomington	5.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068254. 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.