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

Kirkwood, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Orange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45365. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Piqua East quadrangle.

Kirkwood within Shelby County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kirkwood, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Kirkwood, surveyed 1914

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

22,082 words on this township

History of Shelby County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Orange Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

It is easy to imagine what his answer would be. Give me back the days of old ; let me go back to my log-cabin home beside the Miami, where I took my youthful bride; where with empty hands, but with brave and honest hearts, we fought out the battle of life; where we knew nought of envy, strive, or pride, or any' of the evils that have arisen among you since we left. Give me the social greeting and warm sympathy that were extended from one to another, the hearty welcome given to the cabin fireside, the honest friendship of the Pioneer , and you may have all your riches and modern improvements, with the selfishness that attends them.

Passage source: History of Shelby County, Ohio, published 1883.

At a meeting held at Hardin by the Commissioners, March 7, 1820, it was ordered that all that part of Orange Township that is east of the west tier of sections in the second township of both 12th and 13th ranges be erected into a new township by the name of Green.

Passage source: History of Shelby County, Ohio, published 1883.

The plat consisted of nine lots, four by eight rods. It is located on the D. & M. R. R., six miles south of Sidney. The first building erected was by G. W. Holley in 1863. It was a small warehouse for the purchase of grain, but before commencing operations he sold to D. K. Gillespie, who enlarged the capacity and commenced buying grain in 1864. The next place of business was a store built by H. S. Gillespie & Thomas McKee in 1866. Gillespie & McKee were succeeded by J. G. & Andrew Robinson. The latter sold his interest to J. G. Robinson, who carried on the business for several years, then sold to J. L. McKee, who is the present occupant. Kirkwood contains only nine dwellings, and has about forty -five or fifty inhabitants. It has one store, one grain elevator, one blacksmith shop, one physician (J. J. Millhouse), one U. B. Church, and one school-house. There is not, perhaps, a shipping point in the county outside of Sidney that buys and ships more grain than this place.

Passage source: History of Shelby County, Ohio, published 1883.

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 Orange Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 226 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 226 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kirkwood between 1897 and 1967: 186 Animalia, 21 Fungi, 18 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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
Sorghum Moench	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	Shelby Co., Ohio.
Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub	1902	Grover, F.O.	Opens woods, N. Amherst, near F & D Quarry
Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1939	not recorded	Miami River
unnamed	1897	WA Kellerman	Shelby County
Carex shortiana Dewey & Torr.	1897	Wetzstein, A.
Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1897	Selby A. D.	Kirkwood
Sorosporium reilianum (J.G.Kühn) McAlpine	1897	W. A. Kellerman
Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton	1897	Kellerman W. A.	Shelby Co.
Ustilago reiliana J.G.Kühn	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	Shelby County, Ohio.
Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1904	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	New Bremen, Shelby, Ohio, USA
Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.	1909	Fisher G. Clyde	Sidney
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1914	Russell A. B.	Sidney

All 226 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Kirkwood: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Miami River Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Rock Run Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miami River Stone Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rock Run Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Spring Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ernst Gravel Co Plant No 1 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morelock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Norelock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pence Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant Number 2 and Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkwood in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirkwood	$1,000	A tree was knocked down onto Schenk Road.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirkwood	$500	A tree was downed in the 2000 block of River Road.
September 2020	Flood	Kirkwood	-	Miami River Road was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Lockington	2.0 miles	16
Hickory Dell Estates	2.5 miles	16
Newbern	3.4 miles	15
Depew	4.5 miles	15
Sidney	5.2 miles	15
Buckeye Terrace	5.4 miles	15
Lakeside Village	5.4 miles	15
Hardin	5.4 miles	15

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 Kirkwood	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6415877	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 1064950. 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.