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

New Hope, Ohio

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45320. The Survey maps it on the Eaton North quadrangle.

New Hope within Preble County

Then and now

1953 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Hope, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of New Hope, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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 Jackson township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881 - Jackson Township

Early Burial Places

The first graveyard in the township is in section nineteen, on the Indiana line, on the farm now occupied by Jacob Crowell. It was laid out by the pioneers of the- Elkhorn settlement. The first person buried there was a young man named Thomas Hollett, killed by a falling tree. Hereare buried John Bozworth, Michael Crowell, Elijah Wade, and others of the fisrt settlers.

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In the county-history sources

75,976 words on this township

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

Jefferson township on the north, Washington on the east, Dixon on the south, and the Indiana line on the west, define Jackson township. In the original division of Preble county into townships, Jackson was embraced in Jefferson and Dixon townships. On December 18, 1816, it was ordered that the eighth township, first range, be incorporated into one township for county and other purposes, and that Jackson become a distinct township. The first election was held at the house of Adam Starr. William Stephens, who was elected clerk, soon afterwards moved to Louisiana. John Mc- Cord and John Starr were the first justices of the peace. The present officers are as follows: William C. Mills, C. W. Baker and John B. Kelly, trustees; J. C. Adyelott, treasurer; William A. Arrasmith, clerk; James Morrow, of New Hope, and L. C. Young, of Florence Station, justices. The elections are held at Campbellstown.

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

The surface of the township is for the most part rolling, the only considerable level area being in the southern part. The dividing ridge which determines the general course of the streams, crosses the southern boundary in section thirty-five, passes in a direction a little west of north, branches east and west at a point in section sixteen, just north of Florence station, and continues north across the Eaton and Richmond pike, about two miles northwest of New Hope, leaving the township not far from the center of the northern boundary.

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

Among the first settlers in Jackson township was Jacob Cline, sr., and his wife, Catharine Isley, who emigrated from Guilford county, North Carolina, in 1813, and settled in section thirteen, a short distance west of where New Hope now stands. His house was near the old State road, and was for several years the favorite stopping place of passing travellers. They had two sons, Abel and Jacob.

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 Jackson Township - it names this place 16 more 16 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 798 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 798 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Hope between 1876 and 1974: 769 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin, B. Fink 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
Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1876	not recorded	New Paris
Uria lomvia lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758)	1896	Stewart, R. T. (Robert T.)	Israel Twp, Fairhaven, Preble, Ohio, USA
Septoria oenotherae Westend.	1901	W. A. Kellerman
Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1910	Braun, Lucy E.
Physcia subtilis Degelius	1914	B. Fink	Eaton
Scoliciosporum umbrinum (Ach.) Arnold	1914	Fink, B.	Eaton
Steccherinum pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker	1925	M.L. Lohman	Eaton
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1928	Mendenhall E. W.	New Paris
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Fourmile Creek, within south Dixon township, near Boston, Dixon township
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Sevenmile Creek, within Gasper township, near Camden, Gasper township
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Fourmile Creek, within south Dixon township, near Boston, Dixon township
Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Bantas Fork, trib of Twin Creek, South western Twin Twnp; Trib of Miami River

All 798 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Hope in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
May 2019	Tornado (EF1)	New Hope	$250,000	The beginning of the observed damage was at a property on the east side of Toby Road. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted at this location, with facade damage to a house, likely caused at least in part by impact from the falling trees. Minor tree damage was also observed northeast of this location along Miller Williams Road.\|\|Extensive tree damage was noted at a property on Washington Jackson Road, about a half mile west of U.S. 35. The most significant structural damage at this location was the complete removal of the west-facing portion of the roof over the smaller section of the house. There was also significant damage to siding on the east-facing side of the same house, with mud and dirt splatter noted against the south and east facing walls. Significant shingle loss was also noted on the roof of the larger section of the house. Further to the northeast, one power pole was downed on U.S. 35.\|\|Damage at a property on Eaton New Hope Road was among the more significant observed from this tornado. A barn was heavily damaged, with the collapse of the western side of the structure, including a masonry wall. Much of the material from this section of the barn was carried northeast, with a large amount of sheet metal carried over 600 feet in distance, and a few pieces of sheet metal carried as far as 2000 feet away. Tree damage was extensive at this property as well. At the next property to the northeast, a house suffered siding loss on multiple sides, with a few trees and large limbs also snapped.\|\|A few trees were downed along both sides of Eaton Gettysburg Road, about a half mile north of the intersection with Eaton New Hope Road. The end of the observed damage was to several trees to the east of the intersection of U.S. 127 and State Route 726.\|\|Based on the damage to the home on Washington Jackson Road and to the barn on Eaton New Hope Road, an EF1 rating was assigned, with an estimated maximum wind speed of 90 mph.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	New Hope	$3,000	Several trees were blown down.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	New Hope	$1,000	A tree was downed across Crawfordsville Campbellstown Road near New Hope.
June 1999	Hail	New Hope	-	Dime size hail was reported with a thunderstorm.

Every storm 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
Campbellstown	2.5 miles	12
Gettysburg	3.4 miles	8
Ebenezer	3.6 miles	8
Orangeburg (historical)	3.7 miles	8
West Florence	4.1 miles	13
Oklahoma (historical)	4.2 miles	8
Belfast (historical)	4.6 miles	12
New Westville	4.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065120. 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.