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

Hughes, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45011. It stands on Hunts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Hughes within Butler County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hughes, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Hughes, surveyed 1904

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

15,567 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 Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

County, in 1808. He was a farmer, and had six sons and three daughters. His sons were Samuel, born December 24, 1799; Elisha P., born March 3, 1802; Stephen, January 7, 1804; 'William, December 21, 1805; Elizabeth, September 25, 1807, the widow of William Goudy; John, born February 13, 1810; James, born September 25, 1811; Sophia, born December 8, 1813; and Sarah Ann, April 18, 1816. Samuel, Elisha P., Stephen, William, James, and Sophia are dead.

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

Mr. McLean is one of the most prominent citizens of Liberty Township. He has held several township positions, and, in fact, has always held some township office. He was appointed assistant revenue assessor in 1865, an office he has held two terms; has been justice of the peace for eight terms, omitting one term, or a total of twenty-four years, from 1856 till 1864. He was also postmaster at Huntsville, and is at present notary public, serving his sixth term. He has acted from 1864 till the present time without interruption. He is a Mason and Odd Fellow both, but of late years has not attended. He held the office of recording secretary'in the Odd Fellows. His uncle, Colonel Alexander McLean, was out in the Revolutionary War, being a colonel of frontier rangers. He also served in McIntosh's campaign of 1780. He was also one of the surveyors engaged with Mason and Dixon in running the division line between Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, in 1766 and 1767, and in 1782 and 1783 he, in connection with Joseph Neville, carried out the southern boundary from where Mason and Dixon stopped at the Indian warpath.

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

Mr. Samuel Kain carried on wagon-making for many years, beginning as early as 1823 or 1824. We read of the Kain wagons receiving the first premiums in the Butler County Agricultural Society. On October 13, 1836, Mr. Kain received three dollars premium on the best wagon manufactured. The shop was afterwards turned into a buggy and carriage factory, and was such for many years, and is now a factory for the manufacturing of the Kain harrows.

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 Liberty Township - it names this place 12 more 12 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 412 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 412 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hughes between 1835 and 1975: 349 Animalia, 37 Plantae, 25 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Billups, Arden R. Gaufin, Austing, G. R. 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 412 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hughes in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Hughes	$175,000	A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed a tornado near Liberty Township. This tornado lifted an entire roof off of a two story home and the exterior walls collapsed. Significant roof damage occurred to three other residences nearby as well. Multiple vehicles sustained damage in the path of the tornado. Numerous trees were snapped, power poles were snapped, and several homes had minor roof and siding damage due to the tornado. The maximum estimated wind speed based on damage was around one-hundred and five miles per hour.
August 2008	Flash Flood	Hughes	$1,000	Hamilton-Mason Road was flooded near the Interstate 75 underpass in Liberty Township.

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
Dutchland Woods	0.4 miles	16
Hunting Creek Estates	0.9 miles	16
Huntsville	1.3 miles	16
Liberty Trails	1.6 miles	16
Airy Hills	1.7 miles	15
Bethany	1.8 miles	16
Kyles	2.0 miles	16
Taylor Village	2.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064874. 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.

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.