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Newtown, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Newtown Village. It lies in ZIP code area 45244. It stands on Bass Island. The Survey maps it on the Withamsville quadrangle. 2,702 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Newtown within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Newtown grew from 2,672 to 2,702 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,672
20202,702+30 (+1%)

Then and now

1898 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Newtown, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Newtown, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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 Newtown village, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From 1789 History of Hamilton County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 - Newtown Village

Jared Cloud

of Colerain township, was born on St. Patrick's day, the seventeenth of March, 1808; is of Welsh and English descent on his father's side and of French descent on that of his mother. Mason Jones Cloud, his grandfather, came from Virginia about the year 1778, and settled in Boone county, Kentucky. Unfortunately for the fate of Mason, he was required to return to Virginia for a sum of money there due him, and after only a three days' stay in his new home, in company with two others, set out on his perilous trip, and, with his companions, was massacred on Licking river by the hostile Indians.

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In the county-history sources

26,474 words on this township

History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Newtown Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

General Massie's survey, No. 2,276, in the north part of the township, and on the border of the Little Miami bottoms at the foot of the hills, in 1801, by General James Taylor, and was by him at first called Mercersburgh, in honor of General Mercer, of Revolutionary fame. The most easterly part of the present site was first built up, and bore the name of Mercersburgh ; but afterwards the whole of the site was occupied under the designation of Newtown.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

A stone building was erected at Newtown in 18 13 for the use of the Methodist Episcopal church. When a new meeting-house was put up on the same site in 1861, the stones used for this basement were taken from the old building. Rev. John Strange was the first circuitrider to serve the Methodist charge here. The Revs. Philip and James Gatch, and other pioneers of Methodism in the Miami valley, also often preached here. "Mother Jones" is remembered as the first Methodist woman in or near the place.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

The first school-house in the place stood at no great distance from this one. One of the earliest teachers here was EU Davis, a native of Salem, New Jersey, who removed to Hamilton county from Lexington, Kentucky, and taught school for several years with marked success, as he was thorough in discipline and scholarship. He won equal popularity as a justice of the peace, in which capacity he served for several years. In 1808 he married Ruth Long, and after a further residence of four years at Newtown, he removed to Union township, Clermont county, where his remaining years were spent.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, 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 Newtown Village - it names this place 22 more 22 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 6,379 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 6,379 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newtown between 1819 and 1975: 3,631 Fungi, 1,480 Animalia, 858 Plantae, 370 Protozoa, 27 Unrecorded, 13 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A. Braun, A. F. Braun 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 Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.CurtisCorticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1899C.G. LloydCincinnati
Specimen of Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & PeckMicrosphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck1899Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
Specimen of Puccinia extensicola Plowr.Puccinia extensicola Plowr.1900Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Quercus leana, not of this specimenQuercus × leana Nutt.1819Thomas Nuttall3 miles North of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Sebacina calcea, not of this specimenSebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.1827Lloyd C. G.Linwood
A photograph of the species Rhus venenata, not of this specimenRhus venenata DC.1830Clark, JosephNorth of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1834Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1835Collector unspecifiedIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1835Joseph C. FrankCincinnati.
Asterostroma cervicolor (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Massee1897Lloyd C. G.Eden Park

All 6,379 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Newtown: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Continental Mineral/ Sharonville OhZirconium, TitaniumUnknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, OhioZirconiumUnknown
Mariemont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mariemont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newtown PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 3 Newtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newtown in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNewtown$10,000Numerous trees were downed, some of which fell on cars.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNewtown$5,000A large one-hundred year old tree was knocked down onto a house. Other pine trees in the area were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNewtown$5,000Trees were downed.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNewtown$3,000Trees and large limbs were downed across the southeast part of the county.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNewtown$3,000Trees were uprooted, and large limbs were downed.
May 2009HailNewtown$3,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNewtown$2,000no account filed
August 2019FloodNewtown-Ponding of water was reported in Newtown.
April 2017HailNewtown-The public reported 0.9 inch hail.
August 2003Flash FloodNewtown-Numerous roads were flooded across the eastern part of the county.
August 2015HailNewtown-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNewtown-no account filed
April 2006HailNewtown-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNewtown-no account filed
June 1998HailNewtown-no account filed
July 1998HailNewtown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Shademoore1.0 miles19
Plainville1.2 miles19
Clare1.3 miles19
Turpin Hills1.4 miles19
Lawyerdale Estates1.5 miles21
Avoca Park1.5 miles19
Mariemont1.6 miles19
Beech-Mar2.0 miles19

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 NewtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959486The 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 1065151. 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.