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

Jones, 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. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Jones 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 Jones (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Jones (historical), 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

The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879; 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.

One of the best preserved works in the county is that on the farm of John Seagardner, in section sixteen (marked F on the map) and shown in Fig. 52. The plan is taken from that made by James McBride and John W. Erwin, in 1840. The work lies between two small streams and its line of walls borders on the natural banks, and then closes across the narrow neck of land at the south. The bank of the western stream is steep, having a descent of sixty feet, thus making it difficult of ascent. The area enclosed is seventeen acres and consists of an upland and a lowland. The ground is elevated at the south, but comparatively low at the north, while the intervening bank is sloping. On the east the wall follows the curves of the stream, which has been encroached upon by the latter. The walls are low, ranging from three to four feet In height. The entrance on the south presents a very interesting feature, a supplementary plan of which is given in the engraving. The ends of the wall curve inwardly, forming a true circle ninety-eight feet in diameter. Within the circle thus formed is another circle, with no opening, fifty-eight feet in diameter. The external gateways is seventy-five feet in width, covering whicli is a mound five feet high and forty feet in diameter at the base. The internal gateway (d) is twenty feet wide. The passage way between the mound and the embankment, and between the walls of the circles is about six feet wide. Extc^rnal to the southern walls is a small ditch which subsides into the ravines on either side.

Passage source: The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879.

Beginning at the bank of the Miami, on the eastern side, at the place where the south boundary line of the . county strikes the same; thence east with the southern boundary line of the county to the southeast corner of section No. 14 of the second township of the second entire range; thence north to the Great Miami River; thence importance led from Hamilton to Cincinnati via Springdale. The Symmes's Corner road was also of considerable consequence at an early day. The River road, as it was called, follows down the Miami on the east side, from Hamilton to the Colerain pike, with which it unites near the Venice bridge. The Miami Canal, treated in detail elsewhere, is the most important thoroughfare in the township excepting the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. It passes through a fertile tract of country.

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

Two hundred yards south-east of the Auburn Methodist Episcopal Church, a log school-house was erected in 1820, or thereabouts. It was consumed by fire in 1825. Joseph Work was an early teacher; also Mr. Aikens. There have been two houses at this place. The first stood near the second, and was erected about five years before it.

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 5 more 5 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 433 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 433 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jones (historical) between 1835 and 1975: 375 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 433 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jones (historical): 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fairfield Plant No. 10 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
	Fairfield Plant Number 10 and Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working 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
Stockton	0.5 miles	16
Flockton	1.7 miles	15
Furmandale	2.1 miles	16
Port Union	2.1 miles	15
Athlone (historical)	2.2 miles	16
Indian Springs	2.2 miles	16
Rialto	2.7 miles	15
Schenck	2.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068271. 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.