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

Muttonville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45311. It stands on Opossum Run. The Survey maps it on the Eaton South quadrangle.

Muttonville within Preble County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Muttonville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Muttonville, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

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

35,662 words on this township

History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Gasper Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1805 Moses Dooley, with his son, Silas, accompanied by Jacob Railsback, started for Ohio in search of land. They came to Springfield, now Springdale, Hamilton county, Ohio, and spent the first night with Elder Thompson, a Presbyterian minister. As Mr. Thompson was at that time in need of a hand Silas was hired for one month.

Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.

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 Gasper Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,072 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,072 specimens collected within 10 miles of Muttonville between 1877 and 1975: 810 Animalia, 167 Fungi, 90 Plantae, 5 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.L.; Bucholtz, I., A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1877	Matthes,B.	USA, Ohio, Hamilton County, Camden
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1901	W.A. Kellerman
Puccinia circaeae Pers.	1901	W. A. Kellerman
Ramularia armoraciae Fuckel	1890	Elliott E. N.	Morning Sun
Uria lomvia lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758)	1896	Stewart, R. T. (Robert T.)	Israel Twp, Fairhaven, Preble, Ohio, USA
Septoria oenotherae Westend.	1901	W. A. Kellerman
Uromyces ari-triphylli (Schwein.) Seeler	1901	W. A. Kellerman	West Alexandria
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1909	Braun, E. Lucy	Hueston Woods, east of Talawanda Creek
Bulgaria rufa Schwein.	1909	Fink, V.; Steven, W. G.	In Houston's Woods [sic; Hueston Woods State Park, Butler and Preble counties].
Campylium hispidulum (Brid.) Mitt.	1909	Braun, E. Lucy	Hueston Woods
Cenangium ferruginosum Fr.	1909	Bruce Fink
Cladonia furcata (Huds.) Schrad., 1794	1909	Braun, E. Lucy	Hueston Woods State Park

All 1,072 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 Muttonville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Camden Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Wysons Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Preble 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
Lake Lakengren	2.1 miles	11
Fosterville	2.4 miles	11
Sugar Valley	2.8 miles	11
Camden	2.8 miles	11
Quail Trail	2.9 miles	11
Corvin (historical)	4.1 miles	11
Claysburg (historical)	4.5 miles	13
Fairhaven	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.

Wikidata item Q22134018

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 1062911. 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.