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

Otterbein, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dudley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43326. The Survey maps it on the Mount Victory quadrangle.

Otterbein within Hardin 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 Otterbein, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Otterbein, surveyed 1915

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

35,913 words on this township

The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Dudley Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Otterbein United Brethren in Christ. - This church was organized in ! March, 1850, by Rev. Robert Weeks, at the house of Benjamin Kelly. The class consisted of the following persons: James H. Lingo, Emeline Lingo, Benjamin Kelly, Martha Kelly, Benjamin Kelly, Jr., William Kelly, Isabel Kelly, Henry Burris, Hettie Burris, Margaret Burris, John Latimore, Sarah Latimore, Francis Latimore, Frederick Kemper, Jane Kemper, Sarah Kemper, Sanford Kemper, Henry Shanks, Elizabeth Shanks, and others, to the number of about thircy. Services were held in the Kelly Schoolhouse until the summer of 1875, when the present frame church edifice was erected at a cost of about 11,400, and the house was dedicated in Angust of. the same year. Bishop Weaver preaching the dedicatory sermon. The following have served as pastors: Revs. Robert Weeks, Mr. Powell, P. P.

Passage source: The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883.

There are three established places of interment in Dudley Township, j The first was the one now known as the Lee Cemetery, which is located on i the Kenton & Marion pike, in Section 9. The ground was donated by John I Henry, and contains about one acre of ground, pleasantly located on a high, elevated position, and is now and has been, for several years, in the I care of the Trustees of the township. This was dedicated to use by the j reception of the body of Samuel Codner, who died March 30, 1833, since which, it has received the mortal remains of many of the early settlers and others of this neighborhood and vicinity. The next established, was the one located about one mile and a half west of the Lee Cemetery, also on the Kenton pike on Section 8. This is smaller in size, but is also in care of the Trustees. The third is the Otterbein Cemetery, situated on the west | and adjoining the Otterbein United Brethren Church. This consists of one acre of ground, which was donated to the church by John Latimore in 1850. It remained in care of the Trustees of the church till about 1866-67, [ when they deeded it to the Trustees of the township, who have surrounded I it with a good substantial board fence, and, under whose supervision, it is | now expected it will receive due care. The first to be interred here was a | child of a Mr. Hockingberry. '

Passage source: The History of Hardin County, Ohio, published 1883.

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 Dudley Township.

Fires near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Otterbein between 2002 and 2002, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 124 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 124 specimens collected within 10 miles of Otterbein between 1882 and 1970: 104 Animalia, 19 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W SHARER, Angle, E. (Eric), Anson A. Hinkley 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
Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke	1906	Penfield, O.; C. B. Wilson	Ridgeway
Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.	1923	W.G. Stover	Kenton
Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)	1939	J. Pelton	Pond near Kenton
Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 1817	1882	W.C. Hampton	Mt. Victory
Puccinia graminis var. phlei-pratensis (Erikss. & Henn.) Stakman & Piem.	1908	Clinton; Bird	Mt. Victory
Guignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1910	Heckathorne H. E.	Kenton
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1910	Heckathorne H. E.	Kenton
Puccinia asterum (Schwein.) F.Kern	1913	Bartholomew E.	Kenton
Puccinia caricis-solidaginis Arthur	1913	E. Bartholomew	Kenton
Puccinia dioicae Magnus	1913	Bartholomew, Elam T	Kenton
Puccinia extensicola Plowr.	1913	E. Bartholomew	Kenton.
Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)	1914	Anson A. Hinkley	Scioto River, Kenton, near headwaters, North America

All 124 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Browns Crossroads	1.6 miles	11
Pfeiffer	2.7 miles	10
Hepburn	3.2 miles	10
Mount Victory	3.5 miles	11
Marshs (historical)	3.8 miles	10
Mentzer	4.1 miles	11
Grassy Point	4.6 miles	11
Ridgeway	6.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055456. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.