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Georgetown, 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. The Survey maps it on the Arcanum quadrangle.

Georgetown within Preble County

Then and now

1953 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Georgetown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Georgetown, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Harrison township, in the words of 1915.

1915, Harrison Township

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.

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In the 1915 county history

88,539 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 Harrison Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Harrison Township - 88,539 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 58 shown

Museums hold 58 specimens collected within 10 miles of Georgetown between 1929 and 1970: 56 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Klots, A.B., R. Rhoades, Robert Gray; Judith Kertesz 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
A photograph of the species Macrochilo absorptalis, not of this specimenMacrochilo absorptalis Walker, 18591929Klots, A.B.Lewisburg
A photograph of the species Phalaenostola eumelusalis, not of this specimenPhalaenostola eumelusalis Walker, 18591929Klots, A.B.Lewisburg
A photograph of the species Phalaenostola larentioides, not of this specimenPhalaenostola larentioides Grote, 18731929Klots, A.B.Lewisburg
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Twin Creek, within Harrison township, near Lewisburg, Harrison township
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Twin Creek, within Harrison township, near Lewisburg, Harrison township
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Twin Creek tributary, within Harrison township, near Lewisburg, Harrison township
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 18541930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Twin Creek tributary, within Harrison township, near Lewisburg, Harrison township
Allocapnia granulata (Claassen, 1924)1938Theodore H. FrisonLewisburg, Ohio, Twin Rivers
A photograph of the species Allocapnia vivipara, not of this specimenAllocapnia vivipara (Claassen, 1924)1938T.H. Frison
A photograph of the species Orconectes rusticus, not of this specimenOrconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)1938R. RhoadesLowry Run, Sec. 10, Washington Township
Orconectes sloanii (Bundy, 1876)1938R. RhoadesLowry Run, Sec. 10, Washington Township
A photograph of the species Taeniopteryx burksi, not of this specimenTaeniopteryx burksi Ricker & Ross, 19681938T.H. Frison

All 58 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
West Sonora0.9 miles8
Verona2.9 miles9
Browns3.1 miles8
Euphemia3.3 miles8
Lewisburg3.8 miles8
West Manchester4.5 miles9
Eldorado7.1 miles9
Brennersville7.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062781. 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.

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