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

Dadsville, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lanier Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45381. It stands on Coffman Run. The Survey maps it on the West Alexandria quadrangle.

Dadsville within Preble 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 Dadsville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Dadsville, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 1915 county history

2,967 words on this township

The county history of 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lanier Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lanier Township - 2,967 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 588 shown

Museums hold 588 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dadsville between 1896 and 1974: 550 Animalia, 31 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin, 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 Uromyces ari-triphylli (Schwein.) SeelerUromyces ari-triphylli (Schwein.) Seeler1901W. A. KellermanWest Alexandria
A photograph of the species Uria lomvia, not of this specimenUria lomvia lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758)1896Stewart, R. T. (Robert T.)Israel Twp, Fairhaven, Preble, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181901W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Puccinia circaeae, not of this specimenPuccinia circaeae Pers.1901W. A. KellermanWest Alexandria
A photograph of the species Septoria oenotherae, not of this specimenSeptoria oenotherae Westend.1901W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Uromyces caladii, not of this specimenUromyces caladii (Schwein.) Farl.1901W. A. KellermanWest Alexandria
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1910Braun, Lucy E.
A photograph of the species Physcia subtilis, not of this specimenPhyscia subtilis Degelius1914B. FinkEaton
A photograph of the species Scoliciosporum umbrinum, not of this specimenScoliciosporum umbrinum (Ach.) Arnold1914Fink, B.Eaton
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1922Overholts, L. O.Gratis
A photograph of the species Steccherinum pulcherrimum, not of this specimenSteccherinum pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker1925M.L. LohmanEaton
Hypocrea sulphurea (Schwein.) Sacc.1926L. O. OverholtsGreenbush

All 588 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dadsville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
West Alexandria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Wysong Gravel West Alexandria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Preble County

Storms nearby

4 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Dadsville in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 3 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDadsville$40,000A well built barn was damaged and a parked tractor trailer was flipped onto a parked car. Numerous trees were also downed in the area.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDadsville$1,000A tree was downed at the 1700 block of New Market Banta Road.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindDadsville$1,000A tree was downed near Pyrmont Road and State Route 503.
June 2021FloodDadsville-High water was reported on Eaton Lewisburg Pyrmont Road.

Every storm recorded in Preble 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
County Line1.0 miles11
West Alexandria1.7 miles10
New Lexington2.1 miles8
Ingomar2.2 miles11
Enterprise3.3 miles10
Sampleville4.0 miles10
Ransom4.2 miles10
Wheatville5.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063255. 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.