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

Conover, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45317. The Survey maps it on the Fletcher quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

Conover within Miami County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Conover, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Conover, surveyed 1914

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

75,880 words on this township

The History of Miami County, Ohio, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Brown Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The various branches of commerce are carried on here by two dry-goods stores, one drug store, one grocery store, four blacksmith-shops, two shoeshops, one fhrmture store, two milliner-shops, one hotel, one tin and- stove store, one barber, two grain warehouses, two physicians, one dentist, one dealer in patent medicines, two stock dealers, and one harness-shop.

Passage source: The History of Miami County, Ohio, published 1880.

The Presbyterian Church in Fletcher was organized in the fall of 1837 by Revs. James Coe and Samuel Cleland, who were deputed to act in that capacity by the Presbytery at Sidney. The dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev. Cleland, from Romans, eighth chapter and first verse, and the congregation was named the M Newton Presbyterian Church." Previous to the organization of the church here, Rev. F. A. Hem per, a licentiate minister, had preached for the people here. The congregation at first consisted of twenty members. The first ruling elder was William Brown. Matthew Dinsmore and James McQuillen were ordained elders, by Rev. Coe, at William Brown's schoolhouse. January 27. 1838. Rev. D. HGreen, formerty of Delaware, Ohio, the present pastor, resides in New Paris, and preaches for the people here every two weeks. Robert Scott is Superintendent of the Sunday school, which has an average attendance of forty. The church edifice is of brick, the whole property being worth about $4,500.

Passage source: The History of Miami County, Ohio, published 1880.

WM. J. McKNIGHT, farmer; P. O. Piqua; who was born in Shelby Co., Ohio, Aug. 18, 1837, is a son of Joseph and Mary McKnight ; he was brought up on a farm, and has always followed that business. On the 12th of October, 1858, he married Elizabeth A. Bull ; she died May 6, 1868, leaving three children - Joseph T. (bom April 5, 1860), W. R. (bom March 23, 1862), and E. E. (bom March 21, 1864) ; the two older are attending school at Ada, Harding Co., Ohio ; at the death of his wife, Mr. McKnight's sister stayed with him and kept house, taking care of the children until Jan. 4, 1871. He was again united in marriage with Mary E. Morrow, daughter of James and Mary Morrow, residents of Shelby Co., who was bom Nov. 12, 1838 ; the fruits of this union are three children - Ida L. (bom July 6, 1873), Araminta (born Feb. 25, 1875), Mary L. (bom July 25, 1877). Mr. and Mrs. McKnight and the two sons are worthy members of the United Presbyterian Church.

Passage source: The History of Miami County, Ohio, 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 Brown Township - it names this place 36 more 36 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 47 specimens collected within 10 miles of Conover between 1835 and 1970: 34 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Andrew R. Moldenke 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
Quercus macrocarpa Michx.	1835	Frank
Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. occidentalis (A.Gray) J.M.Gillett	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, in ditione civitatis Miami
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. arbuscula (Berk. & Broome) Nann.-Bremek., 1975	1897	Thaxter, R.	USA, Florida, Cocoanut Grove
Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Spring Creek, within central Springcreek township, near Fletcher, Springcreek township
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Spring Creek, within central Springcreek township, near Fletcher, Springcreek township
Lythrurus fasciolaris (Gilbert, 1891)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Spring Creek, within central Springcreek township, near Fletcher, Springcreek township
Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Spring Creek, within central Springcreek township, near Fletcher, Springcreek township
Carex frankii Kunth	1938	R. E. Shanks	Orange Twp.
Puccinia asparagi DC.	1941	Gries	Conover
Puccinia graminis Pers.	1941	Gries	Conover
Ustilago bullata Berk.	1941	Gries	Conover
Isoperla nana (Walsh, 1862)	1953	A. R. Gaufin	Piqua-Troy Rd.

All 47 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conover in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Conover	$5,000	A few trees and wires were downed along U.S. 36 near Sodom-Ballou Road.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Conover	$3,000	Trees were downed along US Route 36.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Conover	$1,000	An RV camper was flipped on its side.

Every storm recorded in Miami 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
Lena	0.8 miles	15
Fletcher	3.6 miles	15
Sodom (historical)	3.6 miles	15
Casstown	7.3 miles	17
Alcony	8.6 miles	15
Hunters Ridge	8.7 miles	17
Hunters Run	8.8 miles	17
Haven View	8.8 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 Conover	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5162360	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 1039318. 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.

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.