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

Furmandale, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 45014. The Survey maps it on the Greenhills quadrangle.

Furmandale within Butler County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Furmandale, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Furmandale, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

17,301 words on this township

A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Fairfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first house in the town was made of logs. It was built by the contractors of the turnpike for the accommodation of their hands. It stood in the south-western corner of the town, on the Widow Pottenger's farm.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

Following the resolution made before going to learn a trade, he pursued his studies with vigor at such times as he could snatch from work or rest. He had already become quite proficient in the English branches and rudiments of learning. His favorite study was history, in which he became well versed. During his apprenticeship he had access to the extensive and well selected library public moneys of the land office at Crawfordsville, Indiana. This opportunity was well improved, and he was prepared when leaving there, in 1838, to enter upon advanced fields of knowledge.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

In this place Freeman G. Cary, with his two brothers, William Woodward and Samuel Fenton, received his early education. He afterwards attended college at Miami University, and graduated with honor in the class of 1831. This was more than fifty years ago, and since that time Mr. Cary has left a marked impress of his character for good, which, in the history of the times, is inerasable. He has devoted more than thirty years of his life to teaching. He established Cary's Academy and originated Farmers' College, into which the academy was merged ; also originated for females what afterwards be- came the Ohio Female College. These institutions were eminently successful until after he resigned the presidency, the Farmers' College at that time numbering three hundred students. The Female College was likewise successful.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

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 Fairfield Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 448 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 448 specimens collected within 10 miles of Furmandale between 1835 and 1975: 390 Animalia, 42 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden 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
Leptostromataceae	1883	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Lancaster.
Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey	1835	Collector unknown	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.	1835	Collector unspecified	"Miami"
Carex gracillima Schwein.	1835	B. Frank	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)	1879	W. Douglass	Jones Station
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Diadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 1859	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1879	not recorded	Hughes

All 448 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Furmandale: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 2 plants, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Armco Inc/ Hamilton, Ohio	Iron	Unknown
American Materials/ Hamilton, Ohio	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Fairfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fairfield Plant No. 10 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Fairfield Plant Number 10 and Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hilltop Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Indian Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Schlichter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Schlichter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Symmes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

12 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Furmandale in 12 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Furmandale	$5,000	A large tree fell onto a house near Oberlin and Holiday Drives.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Furmandale	$2,000	Several 2 to 3 foot diameter trees were downed.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Furmandale	$2,000	Numerous shingles were removed from a roof.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Furmandale	$2,000	Trees were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Furmandale	$1,000	A few large limbs were knocked down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Furmandale	$1,000	Large branches were broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2015	Hail	Furmandale	-	One to one and a half inch diameter hail was reported at Winton Road near the I-275 interchange.
May 2014	Flood	Furmandale	-	A foot of standing water was across Dixie Highway due to heavy rainfall.
September 2018	Hail	Furmandale	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Furmandale	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Furmandale	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Furmandale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Indian Springs	0.9 miles	16
Schenck	1.1 miles	16
Fairfield	1.2 miles	16
Athlone (historical)	1.4 miles	16
Ixworth (historical)	1.6 miles	16
Dixiedale	1.7 miles	16
Symmes Corner	1.7 miles	16
Griesmer Addition	1.8 miles	16

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 Q122553547

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 1068272. 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.