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

Kyles, 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 45044. It stands on Panther Run. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Kyles 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 Kyles, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kyles, 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 1905 county history

15,567 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Liberty Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Liberty Township - 15,567 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 426 shown

Museums hold 426 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kyles between 1835 and 1975: 363 Animalia, 37 Plantae, 25 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Billups, 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of LeptostromataceaeLeptostromataceae1883Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181883W. A. KellermanLancaster.
A photograph of the species Carex careyana, not of this specimenCarex careyana Torr. ex Dewey1835Collector unknownIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.1835Collector unspecified"Miami"
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1835B. FrankIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
A photograph of the species Calidris melanotos, not of this specimenCalidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)1879W. DouglassJones Station
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor Linnaeus, 17581879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 18591879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Lampropeltis triangulum, not of this specimenLampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Mimus polyglottos, not of this specimenMimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)1879Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Jones
A photograph of the species Spiza americana, not of this specimenSpiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1879not recordedHughes

All 426 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kyles: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fairfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Middletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms nearby

6 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Kyles in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKyles$6,000Five trees were knocked down at two different properties. Also, a children's playhouse was damaged.
May 2022FloodKyles-High water was reported on Watoga Drive.
July 2017FloodKyles-A street in Liberty Township was covered by several inches of standing water.
May 2025HailKyles-no account filed
April 2020HailKyles-no account filed
August 2015HailKyles-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Brookview1.1 miles16
Hunting Creek Estates1.6 miles16
Linn-Crest Acres1.7 miles16
Liberty Trails1.8 miles16
Hughes2.0 miles16
Le Sourdsville2.0 miles16
Huntsville2.1 miles16
Dutchland Woods2.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064957. 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.