Louisville, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Bratton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. The Survey maps it on the Peebles quadrangle.
Then and now
1916 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,590 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Bratton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Bratton Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
26 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Louisville between 2003 and 2018, burning about 103 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 August 2007 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4387 |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 691 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 691 specimens collected within 10 miles of Louisville between 1903 and 1975: 328 Fungi, 229 Plantae, 124 Animalia, 10 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A. J. Sharp, Bartley, F. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 1931 | 1927 | [Not Stated] | Beaver Pond |
![]() | Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Murrill | 1929 | Benedict, H. | near Fawcett |
![]() | Corticium ermineum Burt | 1930 | Hoskins, John Hobart | Near Beaver Pond |
| Hebata erigeron (DeLong, 1931) | 1903 | not recorded | ||
![]() | Hebata vitis (Göthe, 1875) | 1903 | not recorded | |
![]() | Collema fragrans (Sm.) Ach. | 1913 | Bruce Fink | |
![]() | Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner | 1913 | Bruce Fink | Serpent Mound |
![]() | Agave virginica L. | 1924 | Braun, E. Lucy | Turkey Creek |
![]() | Asclepias verticillata L. | 1924 | Braun, E. Lucy | Turkey Creek |
![]() | Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. | 1924 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer. | 1924 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia caespiticia (Pers.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey & Scherb. | 1924 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
All 691 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marble Furnace | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Louden | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| May Hill | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Lawshe | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Tranquility | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Jessup | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Peebles | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Locust Grove | 4.6 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 Louisville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133922 | 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 1062859. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.























