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

McGonigle, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45013. The Survey maps it on the Millville quadrangle.

McGonigle within Butler County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of McGonigle, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of McGonigle, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Hanover township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 - Hanover Township

Encouragement To Enlist

To every able-bodied man, l'rom the age of eighteen to forty-five years, who wishes to enlist in defense of the honor and independence of their country for the term of live wars, will be paid; and whenever be shall have served the -aid term, or obtained an honorable discharge stating the faithful performance of Ids duty while in service, he shall be paid three months' extra pay, and and in case he should be killed in action, or die in the service.

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In the county-history sources

446,593 words on this township

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

The finishing and completing the interior of the | building, securing and adapting it in a manner suit- j able for a jail, was not included in their bargain, but j was an additional expense, aud required some time to j effect, so that it was not ready for the reception of pris- j oners until December, 1808. The inside walls of the 1 prison were lined with logs about a foot square, laid close together, on which, was a lining of two-iuch oak-plank, well secured with iron spikes. The floor and ceiling were of hewed logs, placed in the same manner as the sides, so that t ho whole was very secure against escapes. The i lower story was divided into three apartments, having a .i

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

The present jail was lmilt by Alexander P. Miller, to whom the contract was awarded on the 4th of March, 1846. It cost 88,581, ami was finished and accepted on the 9th of August, 1848. The old jail was sold at public auction on the 15th of July to Robert E. Dufficld for one hundred and ninety-four dollars, by whom it was pulled down and removed. The jail, as it now exists, is a stone structure two shades high, about fifty feet bv ninety, presenting a handsome appearance. The front of the builriiug-is occupied for a voddenco by the diciitf, and the rear is appropriated to the detention of prisoners. This room is about forty-five feet square, with a solid stone Hoor, aud lined with boiler iron for twelve fief high.

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

Either before McGehean entered his saloon at midnight Sunday night, or immediately after the party had entered, a small spring wagon was dragged before this window, from which the assassin, resting his weapon on the diamond-shaped aperture in the shutter, was enabled to take a deliberate aim at his victim. lie was distant from him scarcely six feet, and the weapon was discharged with such deadly effect that McGehean fell struck with eleven large buckshot. Three of these large buckshot severed the jugular vein in as many places, killing him almost instantly.

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

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Read the whole chapter on Hanover Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,981 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,981 specimens collected within 10 miles of McGonigle between 1835 and 1975: 906 Animalia, 777 Fungi, 222 Plantae, 62 Protozoa, 13 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. R. Gaufin, A. V. J.; W. G. S. 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
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Lancaster.
Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh.	1888	J. L. James
unnamed	1893	B. Fink	Oxford.
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.
Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Tringa solitaria A.Wilson, 1813	1879	Porter collection, J.B.
Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825	1880	not recorded
Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.
Tringa melanoleuca (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.
Gavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)	1881	Porter, J.B.

All 1,981 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hanover (historical)	2.3 miles	14
Bunker Hill	2.9 miles	14
Ogleton (historical)	3.4 miles	14
Darrtown	3.6 miles	14
Alamo Heights	3.9 miles	15
Auburn	3.9 miles	14
Millville	4.2 miles	14
Queen Acres	4.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061497. 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.

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