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

Little York, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45414. The Survey maps it on the Trotwood quadrangle.

Little York within Montgomery 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 Little York, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Little York, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

15,552 words on this township

The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Butler Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Butler Township seems to have had its full quota of mills, distilleries a woolen factories, for along Stillwater and the branch forming the dividing h between Township 5, Range 5, and Township 3, Range 6, and emptying ii the river below Little York, are numerous evidences of such enterprises, early as the year 1807 or 1808, Abijali O'Neal and Joseph Cooper built a sa mill on the river in the vicinity of the grist-mill at Little York. Several yeij thereafter, Andrew Waymire, having purchased O'Neal's interest in the sa mill, and, later, that of Cooper, built a grist-mill on the site of the prese.

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.

The village of Little York, situated in the southwestern part of the town rip, was laid out by Andrew Waymire October 13, 1817, and is by far the >.pst village of the subdivision. The plat shows that the original number of kj was forty-eight. Davis and John Waymire were present at the sale of the k(. The village sprang i into existence from the fact of the presence of the at that point. A house or two had been erected by Andrew Waymire for 1 miller previous to the laying out of the lots. The first merchants of the pipe were Christopher Coon and a Mr. Sloan. Among the early inn-keepers ye Meredith Hutchins and Abraham Fry. Henry Huntsinger was then the dlge blacksmith. As to when the post office was established, and who was

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.

JOSEPH H. DeBRAY, physician and surgeon. Little York, born in Miami Co., April 28, 1841, received his preliminary education at Pleasant Hill, in the public schools, and finished his studies at the Friends' Academy in Miami County ; commenced the study of medicine under the instructions of William Patty, M. D., where he remained three years; commenced the practice of medicine in the year 1867, at Pleasant Hill, but after a short time he removed to Dayton, and established himself in the drug business at No. 115 East Third street, which calling he prosecuted one year, at the expiration of which time he abandoned the store and resumed his practice. Two years ago he located where we now find him, he has a good practice which, by close application to his profession, is gradually increasing. He has been a member of the Brethren Church for fifteen years. He married Miss Carrie, third daughter of Richard Shepherd, August 14, 1865; four children have been born to them, three of whom are living - Rutherford B., Dora A. and the youngest, an infant, unnamed at this writing. The eldest died in infancy, and lies in Woodland Cemetery. The Doctor has never sought any office, but has devoted himself to his profession, is a courteous gentleman who commands the respect of all good citizens.

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, 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 Butler Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 991 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 991 specimens collected within 10 miles of Little York between 1835 and 1975: 840 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 58 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Foeerste, A. E. Foerste, A. F. Foerste 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
Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.	1881	Foerste AF
Geaster limbatus Fr.	1883	A. E. Foeerste	Dayton
Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr.	1897	H. W. Anderson
Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, Miami [County]
Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.	1836	C. W. Short	Dayton
Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.	1837	van Cleve, John W.	3 mi. north of Dayton
Hydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt.	1838	J. W. Van Cleve	Dayton
Allium canadense L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Cardamine L.	1839	Sanders, Alfred; J.J. Nagel, J.G. Haupt.	Dayton. 1 mile east.
Cassia marilandica L.	1839	Sanders, Alfred	Dayton
Cynoglossum officinale L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. Suburbs E.
Nuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton	1839	Sanders, Mrs.; J.G. Haupt	Dayton

All 991 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 Little York: 5 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 6 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cassel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Haas Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Haas Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Miller Brothers Gravel, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miller Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northmont Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northmont Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Tipp Stone Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tipp Stone Plant No 2 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Wenger Road Sand & Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little York in 1 storm report between 2000 and 2000: 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
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Little York	$10,000	Thunderstorms knocked down trees and large limbs.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Spanker	0.7 miles	16
Irvington	1.3 miles	13
Morgan Place	1.5 miles	13
Northview	1.6 miles	13
Kinsey	1.9 miles	13
Sixmile	1.9 miles	13
Taylorsburg	2.6 miles	13
Englewood	2.7 miles	12

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 Little York	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6652633	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 1065012. 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.