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

Ogleton, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Reily Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45056. The Survey maps it on the Millville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ogleton within Butler County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ogleton (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ogleton (historical), surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

14,974 words on this township

A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Reily Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The justices of the peace have been Ithamar White and William Mitchell in 1808; Ithamar White and John Burke in 1811; the same in 1813 and 1814; Daniel Trimbly in 1816; John Burke in 1817; Daniel Trimbly in 1819; John Burke from 1820-23; Daniel Trimbly again in 1824-25; John Burke in 1826; Daniel Allhands in 1828; John Burke in 1829; in 1831, Daniel Allhands; John Clark and John Johnson in 1832; in 1833, Samuel Port; in 1834, Amos Larison, and in 1835, Jacob Miller and David Lindley; in 1836, Isaac Clark; in 1888, Amos Larison and Jacob Miller; in 1839, Isaac Clark; Amos Larison in 1841, also Samuel Trimbly; 1842, Elias H. Gaston; in 1844, Alexander Ogle and W. P. Deneen; and in succeeding years, James B. Trimbly, Silas C. Stewart, Thomas W. Lawrence, P. J. B. Welliver, Thomas Smith, Joseph W. Frazee, William L. Lane, John W. Owens, G. W. Welliver, L. D. Hancock, L. C. Addison, and Alonzo Urmston. ~~. In 1844 there were nine school districts in the township and $1,206 annually collected for school purposes. The population in 1820 was fourteen hundred and fiftyone; in 1830, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; in 1840, seventeen hundred and fifty-eight. Reily post-office was the only one in the township in 1844.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, 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 Reily Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,896 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,896 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ogleton (historical) between 1879 and 1975: 841 Animalia, 775 Fungi, 206 Plantae, 60 Protozoa, 13 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. V. J.; W. G. S., A.L.; Bucholtz, I. 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 Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh.Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh.1888J. L. James
Specimen of unnamed1893B. FinkOxford.
Specimen of Hordeum sativum Pers.Hordeum sativum Pers.1895Kellerman, W.A.Oxford, Butler Co. Ohio.
A photograph of the species Spiza americana, not of this specimenSpiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Tringa solitaria, not of this specimenTringa solitaria A.Wilson, 18131879Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Charadrius semipalmatus, not of this specimenCharadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 18251880not recorded
A photograph of the species Chlidonias niger, not of this specimenChlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Tringa melanoleuca, not of this specimenTringa melanoleuca (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Gavia immer, not of this specimenGavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)1881Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)1881Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Taphrina pruni, not of this specimenTaphrina pruni (Fuckel) Tul.1888J. L. JamesOxford.
A photograph of the species Xylaria polymorpha, not of this specimenXylaria polymorpha (Pers.) Grev.1888James J. F.Oxford

All 1,896 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Oxford2.5 miles11
Reily2.9 miles12
McGonigle3.4 miles14
Bunker Hill3.8 miles14
Darrtown4.4 miles14
McDonald (historical)4.6 miles16
Newkirk5.2 miles12
Contreras5.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1066291. 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.

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