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

Melvin, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45177. The Survey maps it on the Sabina quadrangle.

Melvin within Clinton County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Melvin, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Melvin, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 Richland township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Clinton County, Ohio, published 1882 - Richland Township

Nati'Rai. Tea Tubes

The township has good drainage through the waters of Lee's creek in the sonth and Rattlesnake creek in the northeast corner. As tributaries to this latter creek and serving as an excellent drain for the eastern part, are Palmer's branch. Wilson's branch and Grassy branch, and the western part is drained by Anderson's and Todd's fork.

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In the county-history sources

77,341 words on this township

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

Piety Bisher and Mrs. Mary Dimitt, reside in Ohio; the former in Highland County, the latter in Hamilton County. Two of the sons, James 8. and George D., reside in Springfield, Ohio, and Joseph F., in Washington Court House. The boyhood of our subject was passed on the farm, and at the age of sixteen began learning his trade, which he followed at intervals till 1861 , at which time, being a resident of Lexington, Ky., he enlisted in Company A, of the Sixth Kentucky Cavalry. Soon after he was transferred to the vicinity of Cumberland Gap, and was made Orderly to Gen. George W. Morgan, the regiment served during the war in the department of the Cumberland. He was wounded and captured at La Fayette, Ga., while on a cavalry raid. The wound was a severe one in the right shoulder, terribly shattering the bone. He made his escape the same day, and the manner in which it was effected speaks highly of Mr. T.'s persuasive powers. Two guards were put over him, and these he enticed to desert and return with him to the Federal lines. Afterwards he lay in hospitals until December, 1864, when he was honorably discharged. Broken down in health, he went to Minnesota for his health. In 1866, he went to Fort Scott, Kan., in which he kept a restaurant one year. Eleven years were passed in Sumner, 111., and during the time worked at his trade. In March, 1881, he came to Washington Court House, and in 1882, came to Sabina, where he is now engaged at his trade. He has been twice married ; first, to Miss Mollie Schooler, of Lexington, Ky., August 1, 1861 ; two children were born to them, one living, viz., Mattie. Sherman, deceased, aged eleven months, died in 1866. Mrs. Turner died in Westboro, this county, of Cholera, in 1866, aged twenty-eight years. His second marriage was celebrated May 21, 1870, with Gilla Campbell, of Blancbester, Ohio. Mr. T. is a most reliable and excellent workman, and his success can only rightly be measured by his ability to please. In politics, he is Republican, and thoroughly conversant with the affairs that pertain to the political status of the country.

Passage source: The History of Clinton County, Ohio, 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 Richland Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 244 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 244 specimens collected within 10 miles of Melvin between 1892 and 1974: 231 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, A. (Avery) 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
Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Cambarus ortmanni Williamson, 1907	1938	R. Rhoades	Woods along Anderson Fork, Wilson Township
Desmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.	1892	J. S. Vanderwort	New Antioch
Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1901	Hartley C. P.	Sabina
Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)	1911	not recorded	Clinton, North America
Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Wilmington
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.J.	Wilmington
Parmelia Acharius, 1803	1924	Taylor, L.	Wilmington
Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf	1924	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map
Mustela frenata Lichtenstein, 1831	1927	Hazard, F. O.	Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1929	Hazard, F. O.	near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio

All 244 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Melvin: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Melvin Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Melvin Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melvin in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Melvin	$1,000	Several large limbs were snapped from a few trees.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Melvin	$1,000	A tree was downed, blocking the right hand lane of U.S. 22 near Stone Road.
April 2016	Hail	Melvin	-	no account filed
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Melvin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Powderlick	1.0 miles	11
Clinton	1.9 miles	14
Reesville	2.2 miles	11
Starbucktown	3.7 miles	14
Sabina	4.4 miles	11
Bloomington	4.4 miles	11
Sabina Manor Estates	4.7 miles	11
New Antioch	4.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062885. 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.