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

Cowlesville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45373. The Survey maps it on the Tipp City quadrangle.

Cowlesville within Miami County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cowlesville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cowlesville, surveyed 1904

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 1880 county history

78,966 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Monroe Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Monroe Township - 78,966 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 274 shown

Museums hold 274 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cowlesville between 1835 and 1975: 244 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 10 Plantae, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V DEL, A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Quercus macrocarpa Michx.Quercus macrocarpa Michx.1835Frank
Specimen of UredoUredo1897Prof. W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of Polyporus radicatus Schwein.Polyporus radicatus Schwein.1909ThomasTroy
A photograph of the species Botrypus virginianus, not of this specimenBotrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.1835Joseph C. FrankOhio, Miami [County]
A photograph of the species Carex albursina, not of this specimenCarex albursina E.Sheld.1835Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex emmonsii, not of this specimenCarex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig1835Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Gentianella quinquefolia, not of this specimenGentianella quinquefolia subsp. occidentalis (A.Gray) J.M.Gillett1835Joseph C. FrankOhio, in ditione civitatis Miami
A photograph of the species Cercosporina apii, not of this specimenCercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura1896Skinner C. W.Troy
Marssonina panattoniana (Berl.) Magnus1896Skinner C. W.Troy
A photograph of the species Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa, not of this specimenCeratiomyxa fruticulosa var. arbuscula (Berk. & Broome) Nann.-Bremek., 19751897Thaxter, R.USA, Florida, Cocoanut Grove
A photograph of the species Mermis Dujardin, not of this specimenMermis Dujardin, 18421897F. JohnstonNew Carlisle
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 17661898Collector(s): L. KumleinMilton, Ohio

All 274 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cowlesville: 5 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Tipp Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tipp Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Tipp City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Tipp Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Troy PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Troy Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vandalia Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Miami County

Storms nearby

6 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Cowlesville in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCowlesville$10,000Numerous trees were downed on the south side of the city of Troy.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCowlesville$2,000A large tree was downed and several other trees had large limbs snapped off.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindCowlesville$1,000Several large tree limbs were downed.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCowlesville$1,000A few tree limbs were reported down northeast of Tipp City due to thunderstorm winds.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindCowlesville$200A large tree limb fell onto Merrimount Avenue.
May 2024HailCowlesville-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tipp City1.8 miles14
Grayson2.4 miles14
Babbtown (historical)2.6 miles14
Evanston2.6 miles14
Premwood3.1 miles17
Pleasant View3.4 miles17
Southview Estates3.4 miles17
Cloverdale3.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048637. 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.