Pattersons Corner, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Silvercreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45335. The Survey maps it on the Cedarville quadrangle.
Then and now
1917 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1917 USGS Xenia quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Xenia quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Cedarville quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Cedarville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Cedarville quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Cedarville quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Cedarville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
In the 1902 county history
222 words on this townshipThe county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Silvercreek Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Silvercreek Township - 222 words.
Fires nearby
1 since 2009The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pattersons Corner between 2009 and 2009, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 149 shownMuseums hold 149 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pattersons Corner between 1878 and 1975: 115 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 10 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Bauer, B. G. Berger, Bauer Allen H. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg. | 1923 | Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor | Clifton Gorge |
![]() | Mayetiola destructor (Say, 1817) | 1878 | not recorded | |
![]() | Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766 | 1896 | Wright, Frank S. | LOCNM: Zenia (near) |
![]() | Asplenium rhizophyllum L. | 1899 | Young, W.U. | "On limestone banks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton] |
![]() | Asplenium trichomanes L. | 1899 | Young, W.U. | "On limestone rocks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton] |
![]() | Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh. | 1899 | Young, W.U. | "[Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton] |
![]() | Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray | 1899 | Young, W.U. | |
| Calopompilus Ashmead, 1900 | 1902 | D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull | ||
![]() | Woodsia obtusa (Spreng.) Torr. | 1908 | L. S. Hopkins | |
![]() | Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1910 | Carter, J. B. (James B.) | Smith's Creek, Greene, Ohio, USA |
| Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm. | 1912 | Henry S. Jewett | Neff [House] Park | |
![]() | Polistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793) | 1918 | W. T. Mabow | Xenia |
All 149 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee Hills | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Mechanicsville (historical) | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Jamestown | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| New Jasper | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Gunnerville | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Paintersville | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Bowersville | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Stringtown | 5.3 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122570715 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067586. 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.























