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Euphemia, Ohio
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45338. It stands on Swamp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lewisburg quadrangle.
Then and now
1953 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lewisburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Lewisburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Harrison township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Colonel Samuel Kesler
The subject of this sketch was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, on the seventeenth day of May, 1792, and with his father, Jacob Kesler, who served as a soldier in the Revolution, emigrated to Preble county, Ohio, and settled on a farm about one mile south of Lewisburgh, in the year 1811. In the following year, 1812, reports having reached the settlements that the Indians were becoming troublesome, and that several families had been massacred near Greenville, Ohio, a company under Captain Fleming, in which he acted as a private, was sent out against them, but on arriving at their destination, they found that the Indians, after having murdered several persons, had fled.
In the county-history sources
88,539 words on this townshipHistory of Preble County Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Harrison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The country in this portion of the county is hilly, except along the banks of the several creeks, where the richest land in the township lies. To these bottoms the attention of the pioneers was called, and these were the first lands entered within the limits of the township. The western parts of this township are more level than those in the eastern portions.
Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.
The principal crops are corn and wheat. A good deal of attention is also paid to the cultivation of tobacco, and competent critics say that the quality is not much inferior to that raised in those States where tobacco culture is a specialty. Immense warehouses are being erected in different parts of the township for the storage of the fragrant weed.
Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.
The prosperity of the township is doubtless largely due to the presence of two railroads within its limits. "These furnish a ready means of transportation for the products of the soil, an advantage which is denied some of the other townships. Some years ago the people were led to believe that a railroad was to be built which would cross the southeastern corner, passing through Lewisburgh, but after spending an immense sum on the grading the work was abandoned, much to the disappointment of the inhabitants of Lewisburgh.
Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.
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 Harrison Township - it names this place 47 more 47 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 767 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 767 specimens collected within 10 miles of Euphemia between 1896 and 1974: 736 Animalia, 27 Fungi, 4 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Uromyces ari-triphylli (Schwein.) Seeler | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | West Alexandria |
 | Uria lomvia lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1896 | Stewart, R. T. (Robert T.) | Israel Twp, Fairhaven, Preble, Ohio, USA |
 | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Puccinia circaeae Pers. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | West Alexandria |
 | Septoria oenotherae Westend. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Uromyces caladii (Schwein.) Farl. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | West Alexandria |
 | Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff. | 1910 | Braun, Lucy E. | |
 | Physcia subtilis Degelius | 1914 | B. Fink | Eaton |
 | Scoliciosporum umbrinum (Ach.) Arnold | 1914 | Fink, B. | Eaton |
 | Steccherinum pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker | 1925 | M.L. Lohman | Eaton |
 | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Bantas Fork, trib of Twin Creek, South western Twin Twnp; Trib of Miami River |
 | Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Bantas Fork, trib of Twin Creek, South western Twin Twnp; Trib of Miami River |
All 767 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Euphemia: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victory Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Lewisburg Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Victory Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewisburg | 0.6 miles | 8 | |
| West Sonora | 2.4 miles | 8 | |
| Georgetown | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Brennersville | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Verona | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Browns | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| West Manchester | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| New Lexington | 6.5 miles | 8 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122545695 | 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 1063261. 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.