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

Oklahoma, Ohio

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45320. It stands on Lowry Run. The Survey maps it on the Eaton North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Oklahoma (historical), 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 Washington township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From A Biographical History of Preble County, Ohio : Compendium of National Biography, published 1900 - Washington Township

Dread Visitation Of Cholera

The most fearful calamity that ever befell the town was in July and August, 1849, still styled in local annals the cholera year. The disease seemed to come into this county as an epidemic from Boston, Indiana, which was on the stage route from Cincinnati to Richmond. _ Eaton at that time had a population of about twelve hundred.

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In the county-history sources

322,187 words on this township

A Biographical History of Preble County, Ohio : Compendium of National Biography, published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1845 he conducted the great expedition which resulted in the acquisition of California, which it was believed the Mexican government was about to dispose of to England. Learning that the Mexican governor was preparing to attack the American settlements in his dominion, Fremont determined to forestall him. The settlers rallied to his camp, 'and in June, 1846, he defeated the Mexican forces at Sonoma Pass, and a month later completely routed the governor and his entire army. The Americans at once declared their independence of Mexico, and Fremont was elected governor of California. By this time Commodore Stockton had reached the coast with instructions from Washington to conquer California. Fremont at once joined him in that effort, which resulted in the annexation of California with its untold mineral wealth. Later Fremont became involved in a difficulty with fellow officers which resulted in a court martial, and the surrender of his commission. He declined to accept reinstatement. He afterward laid out a great road from the Mississippi river to San Francisco, and became the first United States senator from Califor- mia, in 1849. In 1856 he was nominated by the new Republican part}' as its first candidate for president against Buchanan, and received 114 electoral votes, out of 296.

Passage source: A Biographical History of Preble County, Ohio : Compendium of National Biography, published 1900.

Gordon S. Cloyd, the Doctor's father, received a common school education, and became a very prominent and successful farmer and stock raiser both of Preble and Darke counties. He owned a beautiful home in Darke county, which was built at a cost of five thousand dollars. He is now living in Oklahoma and is extensively engaged in stock raising. In his religious views he is a Dunkard or German Baptist, and being elected a preacher of that sect he now has pastoral charge of a church in Oklahoma. To him and his wife were born seven cliil- dren, namely: Stephen H., our subject; Mary Ann; William, a stock farmer of Oklahoma; Ida, the wife of Henry Fellers, of Oklahoma; Perry, a resident of the same territory; Laura, the wife of Albert Carr, of Oklahoma; and Emma, wife of Edgar Hart, of Missouri.

Passage source: A Biographical History of Preble County, Ohio : Compendium of National Biography, published 1900.

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 838 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 838 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oklahoma (historical) between 1876 and 1974: 792 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 18 Plantae. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Uromyces ari-triphylli (Schwein.) SeelerUromyces ari-triphylli (Schwein.) Seeler1901W. A. KellermanWest Alexandria
A photograph of the species Hedwigia ciliata, not of this specimenHedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1876not recordedNew Paris
A photograph of the species Uria lomvia, not of this specimenUria lomvia lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758)1896Stewart, R. T. (Robert T.)Israel Twp, Fairhaven, Preble, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181901W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Puccinia circaeae, not of this specimenPuccinia circaeae Pers.1901W. A. KellermanWest Alexandria
A photograph of the species Septoria oenotherae, not of this specimenSeptoria oenotherae Westend.1901W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Uromyces caladii, not of this specimenUromyces caladii (Schwein.) Farl.1901W. A. KellermanWest Alexandria
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1910Braun, Lucy E.
A photograph of the species Physcia subtilis, not of this specimenPhyscia subtilis Degelius1914B. FinkEaton
A photograph of the species Scoliciosporum umbrinum, not of this specimenScoliciosporum umbrinum (Ach.) Arnold1914Fink, B.Eaton
A photograph of the species Steccherinum pulcherrimum, not of this specimenSteccherinum pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker1925M.L. LohmanEaton
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1928Mendenhall E. W.New Paris

All 838 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
Eaton2.9 miles11
Brennersville3.2 miles8
Ransom4.0 miles10
New Hope4.2 miles8
Sampleville4.3 miles10
Ebenezer5.1 miles8
New Lexington5.6 miles8
Gettysburg5.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049037. 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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