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Morrisville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45177. The Survey maps it on the Martinsville quadrangle.

Morrisville within Clinton County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morrisville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Morrisville, surveyed 1907

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.

In the county-history sources

4,426 words on this township

The History of Clinton County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Cities, Towns ... General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio .., published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Morrisville is the second town in Washington township, both as to age and sir.e. It was laid out and surveyed by Nathan Linton on June 10, 1S40, on Isaac Morris's survey No. l.Jttl". and was mimed In honor of Mr. Morris, who owned a large tract of land adjoining it. It Is situated four miles east of Cuba, in a very fine farming district and consists of but a few lots. It hns one country store, owned by Robert Green; William Hall keeps a blacksmith shop. The population at present is sixty-two.

Passage source: The History of Clinton County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Cities, Towns ... General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio .., published 1915.

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 Washington Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 489 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 489 specimens collected within 10 miles of Morrisville between 1892 and 1974: 417 Animalia, 51 Fungi, 21 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
Specimen of Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) SnellBoletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Snell1935Cooke, William BridgeCowan's Creek
Specimen of Boletus bicolor RaddiBoletus bicolor Raddi1935Cooke, William BridgeCowan's Creek
A photograph of the species Desmodium pauciflorum, not of this specimenDesmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.1892J. S. VanderwortNew Antioch
A photograph of the species Pseudosuccinea columella, not of this specimenPseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)1911not recordedClinton, North America
A photograph of the species Claviceps purpurea, not of this specimenClaviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.1919Lewis H. L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Cladonia coniocraea, not of this specimenCladonia coniocraea (Flörke) Spreng.1923Braun, E. LucyKlock's Crossing
A photograph of the species Cladonia fimbriata, not of this specimenCladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.J.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Parmelia Acharius, not of this specimenParmelia Acharius, 18031924Taylor, L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1924Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Etheostoma variatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma variatum Kirtland, 18401926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map
A photograph of the species Mustela frenata, not of this specimenMustela frenata Lichtenstein, 18311927Hazard, F. O.Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA

All 489 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrisville in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$6,000An outbuilding was partially collapsed.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$3,000Two pine trees were uprooted and power lines were knocked down on Gibson Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$3,000Several large trees were downed.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMorrisville$2,000Two trees were downed at a residence along State Route 350.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Martinsville2.3 miles11
Wallopsburg2.3 miles11
Farmers3.1 miles11
Cuba3.3 miles11
Burtonville3.5 miles14
Jonesboro3.9 miles11
Snow Hill4.4 miles11
New Antioch4.7 miles11

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 MorrisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18391206The 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 1062905. 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.