Haynesville, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43340. It stands on Rocky Fork. The Survey maps it on the York Center quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1913 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 79 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
9 surveys from 12 printed 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.
- 1913 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS York Center quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
27,353 words on this townshipThe History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Arbela was a village plat laid out by Marquis L. Osborne, July 25, 1838. It was situated in the eastern part of the township, north of and near Rush Creek, on Sixrvey 13,427, the N. Burnside place. John W. Basard kept a grocery and followed gunsmithing, and Stacy Smith lived and taught school here for a short time, and this is the extent of the known human habitation of the place. The utmost endeavors of its founder failed to make it a metropolis or an emporium of trade. The plat consisted of forty-tive lots, a public square and two streets - Main and Osborne. The lots were 4x12 poles in size; their courses, north 12° west and north 78° east. There are now two small country stores in the eastern part of the township.
Passage source: The History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883.
In the spirit of a generous rivalry, it is said, Haynesville was laid out by Jonathan Haynes September 4, 1838, about one mile up Rush Creek fi'om Arbela and on the southern, banks of the stream. It was of more modest dimensions than its established rival, containing but twenty-one lots and a public square. This attempt at town-making proved more abortive than the other, for so far as known it remained in utter solitude. Its streets were Main and Rush Creek.
Passage source: The History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 131 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 131 specimens collected within 10 miles of Haynesville (historical) between 1901 and 1971: 113 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by CL & LC Hubbs, Kellerman, W.A., Kellerman, William Ashbrook 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Rhytisma Fr. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | West Mansfield |
![]() | Cercospora maianthemi Fuckel | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | West Mansfield |
![]() | Scolecotrichum graminis Fuckel | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | West Mansfield |
| Scolicotrichum graminis Fuckel | 1902 | Kellerman, William Ashbrook | West Mansfield | |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Bokes Cr., on state road 21 |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Bokes Cr., on state road 21 |
![]() | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Bokes Cr., on state road 21 |
![]() | Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819 | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Bokes Cr., on state road 21 |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Bokes Cr., on state road 21 |
![]() | Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Bokes Cr., on state road 21 |
![]() | Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819 | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Bokes Cr., on state road 21 |
![]() | Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Bokes Cr., on state road 21 |
All 131 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbela | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Byhalia | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| West Jackson | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| York Center | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Summersville | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Essex | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Claiborne | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Richwood | 8.2 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067257. 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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