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

Kessler, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45383. The Survey maps it on the West Milton quadrangle.

Kessler within Miami County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kessler, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Kessler, surveyed 1905

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

74,276 words on this township

The History of Miami County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Miami County; Constitution of the United States; Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The many perennial springs that escape from the placid lakelets that give them birth, flow gently along the descending plain, increasing in velocity as they near their end, till at last the}- leap from rock to rock, man}' feet to the river below. We need not, therefore, wonder that Union Township is invested with a history that ante-dates the admission of the State into the Union.

Passage source: The History of Miami County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Miami County; Constitution of the United States; Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1880.

In evidence of this, we are informed that it extinguished two large Friends meetings, one in Georgia and one in South Carolina ; from which we conclude, and the facts confirm it, that this township was first settled by the Friends, or Quakers, hence giving rise to the soubriquet of Quaker Township, which it has by common consent received.

The stream of immigration seems to have exhausted itself during the years 1808, 1809 and 1810, after which it almost wholly ceased, and thenceforth the township received accessions principal^ from Pennsylvania and the New Flngland States, which, in comparison to the Southern current, was very meager, diminishing, in fact, almost to complete cessation for several years, never fully regaining its former impetus. Subsequently, the war with England engaged the public mind and called out the whole energy of the nation, paralyzing the spirit of emigration. As a natural consequence, therefore, the southwestern, northeastern and northern portions of the township remained undisturbed and safe in the repose of nature.

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 6 more 6 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 323 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 323 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kessler between 1835 and 1975: 294 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 10 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V DEL, A. Gaufin, A. 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
Quercus macrocarpa Michx.	1835	Frank
unnamed	1897	F. L. Stevens	Sugar Grove.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens	Sugar Grove
Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, Miami [County]
Carex albursina E.Sheld.	1835	Collector unknown
Carex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig	1835	Collector unspecified
Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. occidentalis (A.Gray) J.M.Gillett	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, in ditione civitatis Miami
Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Marssonina panattoniana (Berl.) Magnus	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Phyllosticta podophylli (M.A.Curtis) G.Winter	1897	F.L. Stevens
Uredo	1897	Prof. W.A. Kellerman
Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766	1898	Collector(s): L. Kumlein	Milton, Ohio

All 323 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Kessler: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Gregory Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Gregory Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gregory Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gregory Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gregory Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Miller Brothers Gravel, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miller Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Steiners Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Steiners Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Woodville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Miami County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kessler in 1 storm report between 1996 and 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Kessler	$10,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami 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
Nashville	1.0 miles	12
West Milton	2.3 miles	12
Pinebrook Estates	2.8 miles	12
Ludlow Falls	2.9 miles	12
Pamela Estates	2.9 miles	13
Kensington	3.2 miles	13
Ellemans (historical)	3.4 miles	13
Edgewater	3.4 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 Kessler	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133883	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 1065702. 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.

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.