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

Collinsville, Ohio

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Milford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45013. The Survey maps it on the West Elkton quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Collinsville within Butler County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Collinsville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Collinsville, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

12,534 words on this township

The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Milford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In the village of Somerville, section three, occurs a mound. It is about one hundred feet in diameter at the base. It has been cut down to within four feet of the level, a partially-graded street running over it. On giving it a hasty examination, I was in doubt as to its being an artificial construction. The exposed limestone appeared to be in the natural position. Gravel and sand enter largely into the structure. I learned that on striking the stone with a heavy substance a hollow sound

Passage source: The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879.

The general features, as well as the situation, would forbid the supposition that many mounds should be located in the township. The bluif lands of St. Clair separate it from the Miami River, while the streams that are in it are very small, with the exceptions of Four Mile, which runs through the northeastern corner, and Indian Creek, which cuts through the southwestern corner. Notwithstanding this want of large streams, the small ones have cut deep beds in many places. The banks, however, are generally sloping. High hills occur in the southeastern part, undoubtedly caused by .the Great Miami.

A- mound eight feet high occurs on the farm of J. W. Fye, section nine. One-half is in an open field, and the other in a woods. It is located on high ground, near a small stream that flows into Stony Run, a tributary of Four Mile. In the same field is a mound about three feet high by one hundred feet base.

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 Milford Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

Covered Bridge, Spanning Seven Mile Creek, Collinsville, Butler County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,077 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,077 specimens collected within 10 miles of Collinsville between 1835 and 1975: 893 Animalia, 878 Fungi, 232 Plantae, 60 Protozoa, 13 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. V. J.; W. G. S., A.L.; Bucholtz, I. 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
Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh.	1888	J. L. James
unnamed	1893	B. Fink	Oxford.
Hordeum sativum Pers.	1895	Kellerman, W.A.	Oxford, Butler Co. Ohio.
Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey	1835	Collector unknown	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.	1835	Collector unspecified	"Miami"
Carex gracillima Schwein.	1835	B. Frank	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Tringa solitaria A.Wilson, 1813	1879	Porter collection, J.B.
Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825	1880	not recorded
Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.
Tringa melanoleuca (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.
Gavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)	1881	Porter, J.B.

All 2,077 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Collinsville: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dingledine Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collinsville in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Collinsville	$25,000	Straight line winds destroyed a barn and partially lifted a roof off of a house.
March 2026	Flash Flood	Collinsville	$9,000	Several vehicles were stranded in high water, requiring multiple water rescues along Eaton Road, near Seven Mile.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Collinsville	$8,000	Three metal doors were blown off a barn. In addition, a one foot diameter pine tree was snapped.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Collinsville	$5,000	A house trailer was blown over on Wayne Trace Road.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Collinsville	$5,000	Trees were downed.
June 1995	Hail	Collinsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Darrtown	3.1 miles	14
Somerville	3.6 miles	11
Seven Mile	3.9 miles	15
Jericho	4.1 miles	11
Jacksonburg	5.9 miles	9
McGonigle	6.2 miles	14
Hanover (historical)	6.3 miles	14
Williamsdale	6.6 miles	15

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 Collinsville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5147456	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 1048615. 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.

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.