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

Frederick, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Milton quadrangle.

Frederick within Miami County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Frederick, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Frederick, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 county-history sources

78,966 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 Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1836, a project was set on foot to connect Springfield with Greenville by constructing a pike between the two places, passing through Troy and Covington. A company was formed, stock taken, the State subscribing perhaps half. In 1837, the clearing and grubbing were commenced, and perhaps some grading in Newberry, which was the first actual work on turnpikes in the township.

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

The first religious denomination in the township was the Friends, which comprised the families of most of the pioneer settlers in Monroe. The first minister was William Neal. They built a log church in Frederick, in 1816, which still stands in the tan-yard in that place. It looks a lonely thing amid the modern structures round about it, and seems to silently speak of ages long gone by, when those old fathers who have been many years in the land of spirits, met within its humble walls, and sent up their weak petitions to the Throne of Him Who doetb all things well. The brick church now standing, was erected in 1850, and here services were held until a few years since, when they ceased to exist here as a separate congregation.

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 Monroe Township - it names this place 10 more 10 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 237 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 237 specimens collected within 10 miles of Frederick between 1835 and 1975: 214 Animalia, 16 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 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
Uredo	1897	Prof. W.A. Kellerman
Polyporus radicatus Schwein.	1909	Thomas	Troy
Botryodiplodia (Sacc.) Sacc.	1921	L.M. Fenner	Mill Creek Farm
Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, Miami [County]
Carex albursina E.Sheld.	1835	Collector unknown
Carex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig	1835	Collector unspecified
Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Marssonina panattoniana (Berl.) Magnus	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766	1898	Collector(s): L. Kumlein	Milton, Ohio
Daedalea confragosa (Bolton) Pers.	1906	Fischer G. C.	Troy
Cryptosphaeria populina (Pers.) Sacc.	1923	Gravatt A. R.	Troy
Dothichiza populina Sacc.	1923	Gravatt A. R.	Troy

All 237 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Frederick: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Haas Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miller Brothers Gravel, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miller Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northmont Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northmont Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Wenger Road Sand & Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Miami County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frederick in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 1 flash 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
June 2017	Flash Flood	Frederick	-	High water was reported across both lanes of Frederick-Garland Road near State Route 48.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pigeye	2.0 miles	12
County Line (historical)	2.2 miles	12
Nashville	2.8 miles	12
Kessler	3.7 miles	12
West Milton	3.8 miles	12
Ginghamsburg	4.0 miles	14
Evanston	4.2 miles	14
Pinebrook Estates	4.8 miles	12

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 Frederick	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133755	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 1070755. 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.