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

Maud, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45069. The Survey maps it on the Glendale quadrangle.

Maud 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 Maud, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Maud, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

16,981 words on this township

A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on West Chester Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This cemetery was laid out in the Fall of 1870. George Vinnedge, Perry Wright, and Abner Jackson were the trustees at that time. They purchased an addition to the old yard, which had been in existence for fifty years, making in all one of twelve and a quarter acres. Frederick Wicke, Jacob Francis, and James Patchell, Jr., are the present board of officers. J. W. Gerard, the sexton, has been in charge of these grounds since 1871. The yard was formerly in a bad condition, owing to so much brush and undergrowth, but considerable attention has been paid to the grounds and the walks of late, and it now presents as fine an appearance as any in the country outside of the large cities. Three hundred persons have been buried' in this yard, and an average of thirty deaths happens every year. he ground is divided off into sections, four in number, and these again subdivided into lots,'of which there are in all six hundred. A good fence incloses the cemetery, and on the inside evergreen trees adorn the grounds and shade the drivers, giving the whole a handsome appearance. |

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

After his marriage he lived in Liberty Township some two years, and was a resident of Warren County two years, then returning to Liberty Township. He again went to Warren County for two years, then purchasing a farm near Bethany in 1866, which he still owns, and upon which he lived for ten years. In the Winter of 1877 Mr. Gorsuch came to Maud's, where he still resides. He has a pleasant residence, which is finely situated: He has filled the various school offices in his township. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bethany.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

William W. Graham was born in the State of Delaware on the 9th of June, 1841. He was the son of Philip Graham and Ann Short, of English descent. When he was twenty-three years of age he came to Ohio. That was in the Spring of 1863. He remained in Fairfield for some years in farming pursuits. January 3, 1864, Mr. Graham was married to Mrs. Sarah C. Morris, daughter of John Bobenmeyer. Her birth occurred on the 25th of November, 1841. They are the parents of four children. William Albert was born October 15, 1865; John S., December 28, 1866; Sarah Ann, June 20, 1869; Maud Elmore, February 22, 1871; Henry L., October 10, 1873; Charles F. died in infancy ; Clara M., July 30, 1880. Mrs. Graham, at the time of her marriage with Mr. Graham, was the mother of one son, James W. Morris, born April 6, 1862, now residing with her. After marriage, Mr. Graham located in Fairfield Township until the Spring of 1873, when he pur- ' chased a place in Union, his present home. In the Spring of 1880 he purchased the place known as the Stiles farm, a handsome and desirable place of one hundred and forty acres.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, 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 West Chester Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 337 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 337 specimens collected within 10 miles of Maud between 1835 and 1975: 300 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, B. Frank, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Leptostromataceae	1883	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Lancaster.
Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey	1835	Collector unknown	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.	1835	Collector unspecified	"Miami"
Carex gracillima Schwein.	1835	B. Frank	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)	1879	W. Douglass	Jones Station
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Diadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 1859	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Storeria occipitomaculata Storer, 1839	1879	not recorded	Hughes

All 337 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maud in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Maud	$50,000	The tornado developed in West Chester, near the intersection of Tylersville Road and Lady Anne Drive, where some trees were downed and minor house damage occurred. From here, the tornado traveled east across Interstate 75, causing sporadic tree damage before moving across VOA Park. In the park, an outbuilding was toppled and several soccer goals were scattered throughout the grounds. The tornado then crossed Butler Warren Road and entered Warren County at 1953EST, between Tyler Court and Clover Drive. The tornado continued east across Warren County before ending just west of Morrow at 2006EST.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Maud	$1,000	A large tree fell onto Cincinnati-Dayton Road, blocking traffic.
June 2008	Hail	Maud	$1,000	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Maud	-	The gust was measured on a home weather station.
August 2020	Hail	Maud	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Maud	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Maud	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Maud	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Maud	-	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Maud	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Maud	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wetherington	0.9 miles	15
Dalewood	1.2 miles	15
Airy Hills	1.4 miles	15
Tylersville	1.7 miles	15
Olde West Chester	1.9 miles	15
Westchester	2.0 miles	15
Emery Acres	2.0 miles	15
West Chester Woods	2.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061484. 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.