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

Cuba, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It stands on Cowan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martinsville quadrangle. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Cuba 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 Cuba, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Cuba, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1907 USGS Blanchester quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Blanchester quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Blanchester quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Martinsville quadrangle1:24000
1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

4,426 words on this township

The History of Clinton County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Cities, Towns ... General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio .., published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1806. Adon Clevenger came to this township and settled at Cross Roads, or what Is today known as Cuba. He was horn in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1773. from whence he emigrated In 1S04 to Waynesvllle. Warren county. Ohio. He opened and ran the first blacksmith's shop In the present town of Cuba. He plied his trade there for a couple of years, when be moved to Wilmington, and from there back to Cowan's creek, where he bought a small farm In Colonel Ridley's survey No. 2028. where be lived until his death, In 1853.

Passage source: The History of Clinton County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Cities, Towns ... General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio .., published 1915.

Janies Wilson built the first mill within the present hounds of Washington township on the banks of Cowan's creek. As nearly as can be ascertained, this mill was built about the year 1810. It stood a few rods above the road leading from Wilmington to Cuba. In the parlance of the times and neighborhood, it was called a "corn-cracker." A few years later a distillery was also added and the plant was operated by Mr. Wilson as both mill and distillery until about 182B or 1827. Thomas Thatcher built a saw-mill on the banks of Silver creek about the year 1818. which he operated for about twenty years, when It fell Into decay. About the time of its discontinuance, perhaps 1840. James Carman erected a saw-mill on Cowan's creek in survey No. 2020. This mill had a corn-cracker attached and was operated for many years. The mill was sold a few years later to Abel Biggs. It became so badly damaged by freshets that Mr. Biggs rebuilt it in 1853, and oi>erated it for six or seven years, when it was so completely damaged by high waters that 11 was abandoned and allowed to fall Into decay. The first steam-mill in the township was built by William B. Biggs in Cuba In about the year 1852. It also had a cornorncker attachment, and was run for several years, burning down in about 1860. In 1853 or 1854. William It. Moon and John Mann built a saw- and grist-mill about one-half mile from Cuba, on the Martinsville road, which was operated successfully for several years. It was flnnlly removed by Mr. Moon and sons to Cuba, where it became a flrstclnss mill In every respect.

Cuba was I he first town laid out In Washington township and. perhaps, the second in the county. It was first called I'aris. This village was laid out and platted by Jonas Seaman and James Archer on September 0. 1S14. It was part of the James Blaekwell survey No. 1.457. The original, as well as the present, number of lots was one hundred.

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 Washington Township - it names this place 4 more 4 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.

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

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 565 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 565 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cuba between 1892 and 1974: 487 Animalia, 56 Fungi, 19 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded. 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
Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Snell	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Boletus bicolor Raddi	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Desmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.	1892	J. S. Vanderwort	New Antioch
Cicada sayi Smith & Grossbeck, 1907	1906	W. Templin	Blanchester
Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)	1911	not recorded	Clinton, North America
Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1913	Braun, E. Lucy
Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Wilmington
Cladonia coniocraea (Flörke) Spreng.	1923	Braun, E. Lucy	Klock's Crossing
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

All 565 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuba in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	$40,000	Numerous trees were downed around Cowan Lake. Several trees fell onto cabins and campers.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	$20,000	Damage occurred to a house roof and a barn.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	$6,000	Numerous trees were downed. A playset was also destroyed.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	$5,000	Several trees and power lines were downed throughout the village.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	$3,000	A few trees were downed in Cuba.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	$2,000	A barn roof was blown off.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	$1,000	A tree was downed on Yankee Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	$1,000	A two foot diameter tree was knocked down at the intersection of State Route 350 and County Road 55.
June 2018	Flood	Cuba	-	High water was reported near the intersection of Ohio 350 and Cuba Road.
May 2025	Hail	Cuba	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Cuba	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Morrisville	3.3 miles	11
Martinsville	3.6 miles	11
Burtonville	4.0 miles	14
Midland	4.5 miles	14
Jonesboro	4.6 miles	11
Pansy	4.9 miles	14
Ogden	5.4 miles	13
Wallopsburg	5.6 miles	11

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 Cuba	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5191938	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 1061011. 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.