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

Pfeiffer, Ohio

10 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. It stands on Jims Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Rue quadrangle.

Pfeiffer 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 Pfeiffer, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Pfeiffer, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Baker and John Kelly; 1844-45, Edward McGuigin, John Miller and Jacob Yauger; 1846, Jacob Yauger, Henry Shriver and Thomas Baker; 1847, Jacob Yauger, John Roberts and James Hastings; 1848, Henry Shriver, John Roberts and Edward McGuigin; 1849, Thomas Baker, Jacob Yauger and Edward McGuigin; 1850, Robert Dickson, Jacob Yauger and Henry Shriver; 1852, Isaac A. Robinson, George Butcher and Jacob Yauger; 1853, Jacob Yauger, James Hastings and W. H. Borland; 1854, Jacob Yauger, George Butcher and Edward McGuigin; 1855, Jacob Yauger, Jeremiah Sims and Elisha White; 1856, Jacob Yauger, W. H. Borland and Edward P. Bull; 1857, Jacob Yauger, W. H. Borland and John Roberts; 1858, Benjamin Boyce, James Hastings and Sheldon Latham;^ 1859, James Hastings, R. S. Latham and Adam Millar; I860, W. H. Bor-^ land, Edward McGuigin and Redman Coates; 1861, J. S. Bull, H. T. Roby and James Baker; 1862, Edward McGuigin, H. T. Roby and S. S. Bolenberg; 1863, wanting; 1864, George Pfeiffer, John Yauger and William Pugh; 1865, J. R. Millar, John Baker and Peter Pfeiffer; 1866, William J. Emmons, W. H. Borland and George Pfeiffer; 1867, William J. Emmons, W. S. Pugh and J. IT. Heilman; 1868, AVilliam J. Emmons, James M. Baker and Adam Millar; 1869, William J. Emmons. W. S. Pugh and Peter Pfeiffer; 1870, William S. Pugh, Peter Pfeiffer and J. M. Baker; 1871, W. A Kelly, G. W. Armstrong and James Hastings; 1872, James Hastings, C. Althouser and David Thompson; 1873, W. C. Ingman, W. J. Emmons and H. B. Latham; 1874, James Hastings, H. B. Latham and

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

Constables - 1839, Nicholas Allison; 1840, George H. Cummins; 1841, wanting; 1842-44, Henry Cole and Charles Polly; 1845, George M. Cummins and Henry Cole; 1846-47, George M. Cummins and Henry Cole; 1848, George M. Cummins and Spear Hastings; 1849-50, George M. Cummins and Elisha White; 18d1, AValker McFadden and George M. Cummins; 1852, Thomas Comstock and Adam Pfeiffer; 1853, George M. Cummins and Peter A. Robinson; 1854, George M. Cummins and William A. Kelly; 1855, George M. Cummins and Justus Rockwell; 1856, Peter A. Robinson and Justus Rockwell; 1857, Patrick Laughlin and William A. Kelly; 1858, E. L. Sanford and A. W. Buell; 1859, E. L. Sanford and R. Yauger; 1860, Peter A, Robinson and Joseph Cross; 1861, Joseph Cross

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

James R. Millar. Thomas B. Millar, George W. Ramge, Thomas Ramge, W. A. Kelly, John Haley, John Heilman, Jacob Pfeister, Peter Pfeiffer, Samuel Pfeiffer, Lewis Pfeiffer, John Stoll, David Swartz, Joel Russell, William Dickerson, Casper Stoll, Andrew Stoll, George Pfeiffer, D. K. Boyd, Joseph Cowen, John Cowen, Philip Daniels, Martha Millar, Ida Millar, Permelia Millar, Mrs. S. A. Boyd, Mrs. Martha Dikerson, Mrs. S. A. Haley, Margaret Kelly, Mrs. E. J. Kelly, Margaret Heilman and Rebecca Swartz. Officers: R. D. Millar, M. ; Joel Russell,. O. ; John Stoll, S. ; John Cowen, A. S. ; George Ramge, G. K. ; William A. Kelly, L. ; Thomas Ramge, Treas. ; John Haley, Sec,; Thomas B. Millar, Chap. ; Martha Millar, Po. ; Ida Millar, L. A. S. ; Permelia Millar, Flo.; Mrs. E. J, Kelly, Ceres. They held their meetings in the Millar Schoolhouse until the spring of IS77, when their present Grange Hall was erected - a frame building, 22x34 feet, containing three rooms. The society meets regularly every Tuesday evening. This has been a very pros perous society, increasing in membership and strength till it has become one of the largest and strongest Granges in the county. At one time it reached a membership of 100. Present membership, eighty-one. Present officers: Alonzo Dickson, M.; John Heilman, O. ; Lewis Dickson, S. ;

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 - it names this place 11 more 11 times.

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 Pfeiffer 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
15 July 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 Pfeiffer between 1882 and 1968: 105 Animalia, 19 Fungi. 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.

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pfeiffer in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Pfeiffer	$20,000	Two trees were blown down and structural damage occurred to an abandoned farmhouse, barn, and storage shed due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pfeiffer	$1,000	A tree was downed near the intersection of County Road 144 and Township Road 199.

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Hepburn	1.5 miles	10
Browns Crossroads	1.9 miles	11
Otterbein	2.7 miles	11
Mentzer	4.8 miles	11
Marshs (historical)	5.3 miles	10
Kenton	6.2 miles	12
Mount Victory	6.2 miles	11
Grassy Point	6.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065486. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.