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Maria Stein, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45860. The Survey maps it on the New Bremen quadrangle. 1,067 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1909 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 77 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.
- 1909 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Loramie quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS New Bremen quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,639 words on this townshipHistory of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907 names this settlement in its chapter on Marion Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
A station on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway, less than a half mile west from St. Johns. This town has a population of about 500 or 600 but is not an incorporated village. The most important manufacturing concern of this town is the New Spreader Company, manufacturers of manure spreaders, of which company Henry Synck is manager and Benjamin Oppenheim, secretary. The company has a very complete plant, including foundry, pattern shop, wood-working machinery, electric light plant, etc., and employs 25 men. John Link conducts the Maria Stein Machine Shop, where boilers and engines are repaired and wagons are manufactured and repaired. Other important industries of the town are the Davidson butter tub factory, the grain elevator of Henry Kramer, who also deals in hardware and groceries and the Moeller Lumber Company, Louis Moeller, manager, which company deals in lumber and building material. Henry Goecke conducts an undertaking business, manufactures brick and deals in furniture. Dr. Alois J. Willke is the town's physiciati. Located a short distance northeast of the town is the large convent of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood. A little over a mile west of Maria Stein is the settlement known as
Passage source: History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 74 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 74 specimens collected within 10 miles of Maria Stein between 1886 and 1975: 71 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Clark, Clark, C. (Clarence), Clark, C. F. (Clarence 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | unnamed | 1934 | P. P. Pirone | Coldwater |
 | Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830) | 1938 | C. Clark | Eightmile Creek, Noble Township, S28 |
 | Lestes rectangularis Say, 1840 | 1942 | H. Price | Grand Lake |
 | Umbra limi (Kirtland, 1840) | 1886 | Meek and Harris | Montezuma |
 | Carex grayi J.Carey | 1903 | Wetzstein, A. | in einer Lichtung der sogenannten Niggerwoods, etwa 3 Meilen westlich von St. Marys |
 | Ardetta minuta (Linnaeus) | 1909 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Grand Reservoir St. Marys [Grand Lake St. Marys State Park], Ohio |
 | Ixobrychus minutus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1909 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Grand Reservoir St. Marys [Grand Lake St. Marys State Park], Ohio |
 | Telmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1909 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Grand Reservoir St. Marys [Grand Lake St. Marys State Park], Ohio |
 | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1913 | Goodrich, Calvin | St Henry |
 | Chara schweinitzii (A.Braun) Kütz., 1857 | 1920 | Collector unknown | Lake St. Mary, south of South Side |
 | Lepomis humilis (Girard, 1858) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Grand Lake St Marys, Mercer Co, ~4.1 mi NE of Montezuma, Jefferson township |
 | Dendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1928 | Homer F. Price | Celina, Grand Reservoir |
All 74 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
12 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maria Stein in 12 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Maria Stein | $30,000 | The tornado first touched down near Indian Trail Road and State Route 716. The tornado tracked east-northeast and crossed into Auglaize County near the intersection of State Route 364 and Minster Egypt Pike at 2348EST. The tornado continued northeast into Auglaize County before lifting near Bensman Road at 2353EST. Occasional tree and minor structural damage was noted along its path. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maria Stein | $4,000 | Several large tree limbs were downed along with a few power lines along Huwer and Kremer Roads. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maria Stein | $3,000 | Power poles were downed. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maria Stein | $2,000 | Part of a tree was knocked down, along with several limbs from other trees. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maria Stein | $1,000 | A tree was downed on Indian Trail Road. |
| April 2013 | Flash Flood | Maria Stein | $1,000 | Roads were flooded across the southern portions of the county due to heavy rainfall. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Maria Stein | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Maria Stein | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Maria Stein | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Maria Stein | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Maria Stein | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Maria Stein | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Johns | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Rosa | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Chickasaw | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Steinman (historical) | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Sebastian | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Cassella | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Carthagena | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Cranberry Prairie | 4.7 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 Maria Stein | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6761601 | 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 1057830. 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.
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.