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

Oxtoby, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harmony Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45502. The Survey maps it on the New Moorefield quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Oxtoby within Clark County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oxtoby (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Oxtoby (historical), surveyed 1907

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.

1907 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS New Moorefield quadrangle1:24000
1961 USGS New Moorefield quadrangle1:24000
1961 USGS New Moorefield quadrangle1:24000
1961 USGS New Moorefield quadrangle1:24000
1961 USGS New Moorefield quadrangle1:24000
1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

50,366 words on this township

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

John Judy, Sr, was born in Basle, Switzerland, about 1760. He came to America at the age of ten, with his father's family, who settled on the south branch of the Potomac. He came to Kentucky at the age of twenty-two, and married Phoebe Lamaster. About 1794, he came to what is now Greene County, Ohio, and about the year 1800 he came into the territory of what is now Harmony Township, and settled two miles east of the present site of Plattsburg, now the farm of Matthew Bonner. Here he reared a family of children. About 1831, he removed to Union County, Ohio, where he died at an advanced age. j The Turner brothers, Thomas, James, Robert, William, David and Samuel, were settlers near the Madison County line. coming into the township in about the year 1808. They were natives of Maryland. They took an active interest in the organization of the township. Robert served as a Justice of the Peace and as County Commissioner. Their descendants are among the prominent cit. izens of Union County. 'There was not a black sheep in the flock."

Passage source: The History of Clark County Ohio,, published 1881.

Fletcher Chapel is one of the oldest burial-places of the township, and the dead here perhaps number two hundred, among whom are the names of many whose descendants have figured prominently in publie life throughout the land. -Laybourn's is a small and somewhat private lot on Section 29, and on the road leading from Harmony to Plattsburg.

Passage source: The History of Clark County Ohio,, published 1881.

The Odd Fellows' buildiug, on the north side of West Main street, was erected about 1550, and remodeled by that order about the year 1870, and the upper story has been occupied by them for many years. The brick storeroom on Lot No. 7 was built by W. S. Funston in 1849. It was demolished by an accidental explosion of powder on the 8th day of August, 1871, it being then occupied by James Bennett. It was rebuilt the same year. In this accident, George Hinkle, David Johnson, Henry Campbell, A. H. Clark, Armsted Tavenner, Henry Baldwin, Nancy Ann Smith, Valentine Nicely and Absalom Gordon were seriously injured.

Passage source: The History of Clark 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 Harmony Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Fires near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oxtoby (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
21 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 754 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 754 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oxtoby (historical) between 1840 and 1974: 480 Animalia, 218 Plantae, 56 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 73.7; J.H., A. Barron, A. N. Leeds 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
Cystopteris protrusa (Weath.) Blasdell	1878	Beardslee, H.C.	near Springfield
Urocystis colchici (Schltdl.) Rabenh.	1916	W.G. Stover; E.C. Leonard	near Springfield
Ustilago heufleri Fuckel	1917	E.R. Leonard
Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx.	1840	Williams, M.G.	Springfield
Staphylea trifolia L.	1840	Williams, M.G.	Springfield
Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.	1846	not recorded	Springfield
Bryhnia graminicolor (Brid.) Grout	1870	J. W. Eckfeldt	near Springfield
Bryum pseudotriquetrum var. bimum (Schreb.) Lilj.	1870	J. W. Eckfeldt	Springfield
Hygroamblystegium tenax subsp. orthocladon (P.Beauv.) Wijk & Margad.	1870	J. W. Eckfeldt	Springfield
Schwetschkeopsis denticulata (Sull.) Broth.	1870	J. W. Eckfeldt	Springfield
Amblystegium serpens var. angustifolium H.Lindb. ex Limpr.	1871	H. J. Biddlecome	Springfield
Asterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.	1871	Hannah J. Biddlecome	Springfield

All 754 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Oxtoby (historical): 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Springfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Springfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Springfield Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Springfield Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Harmony	1.5 miles	14
Thorps	1.6 miles	14
Garden Acres	3.0 miles	14
Hollandia View	3.2 miles	14
Locustgrove	3.3 miles	15
Meadow Lane	3.3 miles	15
Holiday Hills	3.4 miles	14
Sherwood Park	3.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067499. 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.

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.