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

Henley, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45652. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Otway quadrangle.

Henley within Scioto County

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Henley, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Henley, surveyed 1915

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

3,621 words on this township

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The surface is very much cut up by Brush Creek and its tributaries. This creek passes by a winding- course from west to east through the township and receives Bear Creek from the South, near Henley, and McCullough Creek from the north. Before leaving the township, it makes a tortuous bend to the north, then to the southeast and then to the southwest. This is called the "horse-shoe bend.'' Bear Creek takes its rise in the southwest and flows northeast. McCullough enters the township from the north by two branches called the east and west forks and flows south. These tributaries flow through narrow valleys and have in many places very rapid descents. The land along them is of average productiveness and most of it is farmed. The chief farming region of the township is the Brush Creek Valley which has an average width of about a quarter of a mile, passing entirely across the township. All this valley has been cleared up and converted into farms. The soil is gravelly and loose and produces abundantly of corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, hay, tobacco, etc. There is a region of good farm land about Lombardville known as the "flats" which was the first portion of the township settled. This is a high region, shut in by hills on all sides and drained by Pine Creek, a small tributary to Bear Creek. Scattered over the township are good hill farms which are well adapted to fruit raising.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

Twenty-five years ago this region was almost a wilderness of forest, and even up to the time the Cincinnati and Eastern was built there were thousands of acres that had scarcely been touched by the woodman's axe. The same can be said of all the region watered by Brush Creek, west of the Scioto. The terminal of the Cincinnati and Eastern Railroad was at Henley in 1883; and the years following this witnessed the conversion of the forests into lumber of all descriptions and its shipment to foreign parts. There yet remain a few tracts of good timber in different parts of the township, the largest of which is known as tne "Peebles Tract," and lies in the southwest corner at the head waters of Bear Creek.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

The great industry for the future in this region, which is now but in its infancy, is the stone business. The whole township is underlaid with fine sandstone suitable for building purposes, and only lies waiting the advent of capitalists to open up the numerous quarry sites, many of which are convenient to the Norfolk and Western Railroad. For many years this stone has been used for local building purposes but not until 1890 was any extended effort made to open up a large quarry. This year the Henley Stone Company was organized. It was composed of the following: John Peebles, Robert Peebles, Richard Peebles, President; T. N. Martin, Secretary and Charles Mc- Donough. The quarry was opened the same year and continued in operation until 1898, when the company suspended work on account of the failing health of Richard Peebles, its manager.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

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 Union Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Fires near this place

41 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Henley between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,222 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	23 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12405
2 May 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4247
3 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15574

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,434 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,434 specimens collected within 10 miles of Henley between 1889 and 1975: 1,220 Animalia, 135 Fungi, 74 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, B. Blair, Bailey, J. (Joe) 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
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens	Alum Rock
Peronospora polygoni Halst.	1897	F.L. Stevens
Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817)	1909	not recorded	Scioto River, Pakistan
Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.	1889	Craig M.	Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
Myelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale	1893	Jones, T.H.B	Otway
Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Wheelersburg, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Zonotrichia albicollis (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Wheelersburg, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Eptesicus fuscus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796)	1902	not recorded	Bloomswitch, Scioto Co., Ohio, USA
Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte, 1831)	1902	not recorded	Bloomswitch, Scioto Co., Ohio, USA

All 1,434 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Henley: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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
Taylor Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Waller Brothers Stone Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Waller Bros Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Waller Bros Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Waller Brothers Stone Company	Flagstone	Producer

Every working recorded in Scioto 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
Lombardsville	2.1 miles	12
Otway	2.2 miles	12
Arion	2.8 miles	13
Crabtree	4.3 miles	12
Youngs	4.6 miles	13
McDermott	4.9 miles	13
Owensville	6.2 miles	13
Rarden	7.0 miles	13

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 Henley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698476	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 1041488. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.