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

Fairfield, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45373. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Hill quadrangle.

Fairfield within Miami 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 Fairfield, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Fairfield, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

1911 USGS Covington quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Covington quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Pleasant Hill quadrangle1:24000
1961 USGS Pleasant Hill quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

64,480 words on this township

The History of Miami County, Ohio, published 1880; The History of Miami County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Miami County; Constitution of the United States; Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Concord Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

His word was as good as his bond, and he always confined himself strictly to the terms of his contract, and expected the same of his co-contractor. He was very benevolent, and many a poor person has been the recipient of his alms. The blacksmithing, under his personal supervision, prospered, but the store soon stranded- Mr. Barbee was the only partner of means, and the Sheriff seized his goods. Witn the money that he had made in the shop he bought cattle, and drove them to the village of Chicago and liquidated the debt He now left the shop and began speculating on a large scale, and died worth over $300,000. . ,

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

Benjamin F. Powers, afterward a prominent factor in educational matters, taught the school in 1832, and in 1833-34-35, a flourishing school was kept by an Irishman, who went through the world with the appropriate name of Walkup. In 1835-36, G. A. Murraiy taught in the Episcopal Church. He was assisted in his labors by his sister, who afterward became Mrs. Ressler. E. P. Coles taught in the Coolidge house, otherwise known as Fort Meisinger, in 1842-43. He paid attention principally to the higher branches, the principal features of one ol his exhibitions being a Latin oration, delivered by Augustus Coleman, who served as a Colonel in the late rebellion, where he was killed. In 1846^17, a school was carried on in the old Wesleyan Church by Minor W., a son of Micajah Fairfield, and in 1845-46, a school was also carried on by Rev. Edmund B. Fairfield, who afterward became President of the State Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. He was assisted by his sister Sarah, who became the wife of Dr. N. S. Norton. As these early schools are not a matter of record, it is exceedingly difficult to give a correct history of them and their workings. Many of the teachers are most pleasantly remembered. Mr. McCurdy, especially, is spoken of as a man of broad culture, a fine scholar and most excellent instructor. Those who were his pupils in those old days never mention him but in the most laudable terms.

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

So, likewise, did contention spring up in modern Troy, and the Piquods and Trojans strove, when, at the September term of court, in 1807, the Commissioners ordered the laying out of the seat of justice. Other rivals also joined in the war. By some, Staunton, the original county seat, sought to retain her position as the most desirable. While the attention of the Commissioners was directed to Mr. Marshall's farm, Samuel Beedle sent them an invitation to view his farm, while Piqua regarded its location there sine dubio. Troy, it seems, was equally anxious, but perhaps, conscious of her favorable location, awaited the sequel with more patience.

Passage source: The History of Miami County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Miami County; Constitution of the United States; Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, 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 Concord Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 453 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 453 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fairfield between 1835 and 1975: 420 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V DEL, A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin 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
unnamed	1897	F. L. Stevens	Sugar Grove.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens	Sugar Grove
Carex albursina E.Sheld.	1835	Collector unknown
Carex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig	1835	Collector unspecified
Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. occidentalis (A.Gray) J.M.Gillett	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, in ditione civitatis Miami
Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Marssonina panattoniana (Berl.) Magnus	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Phyllosticta podophylli (M.A.Curtis) G.Winter	1897	F.L. Stevens
Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766	1898	Collector(s): L. Kumlein	Milton, Ohio
Potamogeton amplifolius Tuck.	1899	Young, WU
Daedalea confragosa (Bolton) Pers.	1906	Fischer G. C.	Troy

All 453 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fairfield: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hanover Pit	Clay	Producer
Piqua Minerals	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Piqua Quarries	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Eldean Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Eldean Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Steiners Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Steiners Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Troy Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Troy Plant & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working 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
Carriage Crossing	0.2 miles	13
Fox Harbor	0.3 miles	13
Kings Chapel	0.5 miles	13
Westhaven	0.6 miles	17
Willowpoint	1.3 miles	17
Brook Park North	1.3 miles	17
Laurel Creek	1.4 miles	17
Willowcreek	1.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2778078. 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.