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Condit, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Trenton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43074. The Survey maps it on the Olive Green quadrangle.

Condit within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Condit, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Condit, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed 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

8,553 words on this township

History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Trenton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Murdecai Thomas, when they settled In Trenton Township, on a tract of 40 acres, a portion of his present farm, which now consists of 183 acres, well improved. His wife was born April 1, 1811. They have four children - Truman, Martha J., Mary and John W. In 1867, Mr. Culver bought the Condit store of Wayman Perfect, and, with the exception of three years when he rented to a Mr. Barnes, has remained in the business, runnino; the post office in connection with it ; Martha J. has been Postmistress since 1872, and manages her father's business. Mr. Culver owns a pleasant home in Condit, and is in the enjoyment of the fruits of the industry of his younger days. When game was plenty, he was a noted hunter, and in the settlement of the country was active in assisting the pioneers to "roll up" their cabins ; he takes just pride in being the owner of one of the finest span of mares in the county - one weighing 1,620 pounds, the other 1,740.

Passage source: History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880.

(married W. H. Rowland and living in Knox Co.), Charlie (deceased), Florence B., Rosa (deceased), Frank 0. In 1853-54, Mr. White bought twenty-nine acres of land in Brown Township, adjoining Eden, and laid out what is called Leonard & White Addition ; he then rented land in Kingston Township until 1859, when he moved to East Liberty, Porter Township, and soon engaged in the mercantile business with his brother, Z. L. White, continuing the same two years, and then sold out to W. E. Harris. Mr. White then ran a notion wagon over the country, and, by having a first-class salesman, they exchanged about $12,- 000 worth of goods yearly for four years ; he then began buying stock and farming 100 acres of well-improved land, which now adjoins the village of East Liberty, in which he owns twenty-five lots. He has been connected with township offices, as Treasurer, eleven years in succession. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he has taken deep interest ; has been Superintendent of Sunday school. He paid out $700 for war purposes.

Passage source: History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880.

this township about 1835, where he died in about one month, leaving a family of ten children ; the mother died in 1875. Our subject was born June 4, 1830, in New Jersey ; he remained with his mother until 18, and then engaged in blacksmith- ing in Logan Co., serving an apprenticeship with John Cary for three years ; he then went to Iowa, and in a short time returned to Ohio, and engaged in bfacksmithing on a small farm near Condit ; he afterward moved to the present farm, where he remained until the death of his first wife, Adaline Dawson, whom he married in 1858 ; he then spent some time in traveling, making trips East to New Jersey and West tjFIowa. He was again married, March 28,- 1876, to Mary E., a daughter of Rev. D. and Elizabeth Adams ; the father was from Pennsylvania, and the mother from New Hampshire; this wife bore him two children - Clara M. and Edgar P. He has a snug little farm, well improved, upon which they live. They are members of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton Township.

Passage source: History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880.

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 Trenton Township - it names this place 15 more 15 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 558 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 558 specimens collected within 10 miles of Condit between 1882 and 1975: 505 Animalia, 33 Fungi, 19 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.CurtisHypoxylon crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon howeianum PeckHypoxylon howeianum Peck1896A. P. Morgan
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta ampelopsidis, not of this specimenPhyllosticta ampelopsidis Speschnew1883Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta chenopodii, not of this specimenPhyllosticta chenopodii Westend.1883Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Septoria E.M.Fries, not of this specimenSeptoria E.M.Fries, 18191883KellermanOhio
A photograph of the species Septoria oenotherae, not of this specimenSeptoria oenotherae Westend.1883Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Actaea pachypoda, not of this specimenActaea pachypoda Elliott1895Parker, J.B.Alum Creek
A photograph of the species Smilax herbacea, not of this specimenSmilax herbacea L.1895Parker, J.B.Alum Creek
A photograph of the species Trillium flexipes, not of this specimenTrillium flexipes Raf.1895Parker, J.B.Alum Creek

All 558 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 Condit: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Vans Valley Road PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Condit in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCondit$1,000A tree was knocked down over the road.
July 2021FloodCondit-Several inches of water was flowing over County Road 605 near U.S. Route 36.
November 2017Flash FloodCondit-High water was flowing over Condit Road near Centerburg Road.
August 2017HailCondit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
North Condit0.3 miles10
South Condit0.8 miles13
Greyland Estates2.1 miles13
Vans Valley3.0 miles13
Sunbury4.0 miles13
Sunbury Estates4.2 miles10
Olive Green4.7 miles10
Stark Corners4.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056833. 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.