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

Painter Creek, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45304. The Survey maps it on the Gettysburg quadrangle.

Painter Creek within Darke County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Painter Creek, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Painter Creek, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

9,314 words on this township

The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Franklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The soil is extremely fertile, and is composed of a rich alluvial formation of well-nigh inexhaustive durability. Formerly, it was very wet. but has now been nearly all reclaimed by general and thorough drainage. The principal stream is Painter Creek, which flows diagonally across the township. Entering in the southwest corner, it trends to the northeast till it reaches the northeast corner of Section 18, whence it takes an almost due east course, passing out of the township in the southeast corner of Section it. This, with its tributaries, constitutes the central drainage system of the town. The northern part is drained by tributaries of Greenville Creek, and the southeastern by tributaries to the Stillwater.

Passage source: The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;, published 1880.

JOSEPH GBOFF, minister and fanner; P. O. Painter Creek, Ohio. The subject of this memoir was born in Pennsylvania in October, 183(5. and is a son of Abraham and Nancy Grofi* who are natives of Pennsylvania, and removed to Ohio in 1849 ; his lather died in 1870, aged 67 years ; his mother is living and resides in Miami Co. Our subject was raised on the farm, and assisted his father in agricultural pursuits, and in the mean time learned the carpenter trade ; he came to Darke Co. in 1873 ; he owns 80 acres of land in Wabash Township, where he contemplates making his future home. His marriage with Miss Catherine Reran was consummated June 27, 1858 ; she departed this life September 10 of the same year: he celebrated his second marriage, with Mary Shoo in November, 1850 . they are the parents of six children, of whom all are living, viz.: Allie C. William II.. Charles. Burton, Katie . I. and Anna B.; he has been connected with the German Baptist Church for twenty-one years, and he has labored in the ministry for six years.

Passage source: The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;, published 1880.

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 Franklin Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 114 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 114 specimens collected within 10 miles of Painter Creek between 1838 and 1964: 92 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. C.; Stover, W. G., Andrew R. Moldenke, BROWN CROFT DUELLMAN AND MCCLELLAND 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
A photograph of the species Callitriche palustris, not of this specimenCallitriche palustris L.1838Short, C.W.Lexington, Kentucky.
A photograph of the species Peronospora destructor, not of this specimenPeronospora destructor (Berk.) Casp. ex Berk.1883Collector unspecifiedIthaca
A photograph of the species Dispira americana, not of this specimenDispira americana Thaxt.1895Rush W. H.Greenville
A photograph of the species Clitocybe multiceps, not of this specimenClitocybe multiceps Peck1906H.J. BrememanGreenville
A photograph of the species Peziza vesiculosa, not of this specimenPeziza vesiculosa Bull.1907Lucas, CGreenville
A photograph of the species Amanita phalloides, not of this specimenAmanita phalloides (Vaill. ex Fr.) Secr.1909A. F. C.; Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Clitocybe odora, not of this specimenClitocybe odora (Bull.) P.Kumm.1909Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Panaeolus solidipes, not of this specimenPanaeolus solidipes (Peck) Sacc.1909Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Fomes lobatus, not of this specimenFomes lobatus Cooke1911Overholts L. O.Gettysburg
A photograph of the species Macrolepiota procera, not of this specimenMacrolepiota procera (Scop.) Singer1911OverholtsGettysburg
A photograph of the species Polyporus zonalis, not of this specimenPolyporus zonalis Berk.1911Overholts L. O.Gettysburg
A photograph of the species Poria undata, not of this specimenPoria undata (Pers.) Quél.1911Overholts L. O.Gettysburg

All 114 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
Miller Grove2.0 miles13
Landis2.2 miles12
Fourmans Corners2.8 miles12
Union Corners3.2 miles13
Red River3.3 miles13
Pitsburg3.5 miles9
Nineveh4.1 miles12
Steel Point4.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1066130. 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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