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

Phillipsburg, Ohio

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45354. The Survey maps it on the Laura quadrangle. 498 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.

Phillipsburg within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Phillipsburg fell from 557 to 498 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	557
2020	498	-59 (-11%)

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Phillipsburg, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Phillipsburg, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

18,834 words on this township

The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Clay Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

There are here quite a number of villages, which follow in their chronological ler: Phillipsburg, situated in the northeastern part of the township, has a popi lion of 232. Ten lots were laid out by James Hanks, a surveyor, January :: 1836, for the proprietors, Philip Studybaker, John John, John Thomas and miah Thomas, and it derived the name of Phillipsbiug from Studybaker. j the year 1828, the Friends' meeting-house, before spoken of, was built here, ' n. Thomas was the first preacher. The denomination of Friends who here v rshiped are now of the events that "have been," the society having long s'ce disappeared. Peter Rhodebauch was a merchant in this vicinity in 1835. 1.8 post office was established in 1846, with Peter Smith as Postmaster. In )16, a schoolhouse was built, and in the same year the Rev. Elijah Willi ams i, as an expounder of the doctrines taught by the Christian denomination,

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.

The population of Brookville, the principal village of the township, is 5( being a gain of 165 in the last decade. Of Phillipsburg it is 232, being a g< of 45 in the last ten years ; of South Arlington it is 149, being a gain 25 since 1870 ; of Dodson it is 77, being a gain of 30 in the last decade ; Bachman it is 66, being a loss of one in the last ten years. At this rate decline, this village will be " wiped out" of existence in 660 years ; of Wen^j Lawn, it is 41, a clear gain in the last ten years.

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.

November 24, 1865; Henry, born September 2, 1865, and Rickey, May 9, 1867. j The following children have died, Frederick, Lucinda, and two who died in infancy. Mrs. Ortman and sis of her children are now living on the old homestead. They own 130 acres of land in Clay Township, well improved with a fine dwelling, substantial barn and other buildings. Mrs. Ortman and family are members of the Lutheran Church at jj Phillipsburg, Ohio.

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.

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 Clay Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 182 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 182 specimens collected within 10 miles of Phillipsburg between 1897 and 1972: 177 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, John, Arden R. Gaufin, BOYER AND DUELLMAN 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
Uredo	1897	Prof. W.A. Kellerman
Ferrissia rivularis (Say, 1817)	1904	Allen, John	Brookville
Canthon laevis Bates, 1887	1929	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence Emerson)	Brookville, Montgomery Co., OH, Brookville, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Copris Geoffroy, 1762	1929	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence Emerson)	Brookville, Montgomery Co., OH, Brookville, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Onthophagus hecate (Panzer, 1794)	1929	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence Emerson)	Brookville, Montgomery Co., OH, Brookville, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1930	MB Trautman	Wolf Creek, trib of the Miami River, center of Clay Twp.
Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1930	MB Trautman	Wolf Creek, trib of the Miami River, center of Clay Twp.
Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Wolf Creek, trib of the Miami River, center of Clay Twp.
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1930	MB Trautman	Wolf Creek, trib of the Miami River, center of Clay Twp.
Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Wolf Creek, trib of the Miami River, center of Clay Twp.
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	MB Trautman	Wolf Creek, trib of the Miami River, center of Clay Twp.
Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)	1930	MB Trautman	Wolf Creek, trib of the Miami River, center of Clay Twp.

All 182 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Phillipsburg: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Phillipsburg Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Phillipsburg-#421	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phillipsburg in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2014: 1 tornado, 1 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
February 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Phillipsburg	$150,000	The tornado touched down one tenth of a mile southeast of the intersection of Sweet Potato Ridge Road and Brookville Phillipsburg Road. The garage door of a residence there was blown in, leading to the removal of the roof and two walls of the garage. The roof was uplifted, flipped, and dropped in the yard immediately to the east. Several trees were also snapped in the yard immediately east of the garage. One of these trees was approximately 18 inches in diameter. The next damage location was approximately two tenths of a mile east of the intersection of Sweet Potato Ridge Road and Brookville Phillipsburg Road. A roof was partially removed from a residence on the south side of Sweet Potato Ridge Road, and blown slightly to the left of the direction of storm motion into a residence on the north side of the road. A combination of the debris and winds blew in two windows on a residence on the north side of Sweet Potato Ridge Road. Yard furniture was also lifted and carried over a tenth of a mile to the north-northeast. The tornado then removed a large portion of a barn roof on the west side of Pansing Road and carried it to the northwest, perpendicular to the direction of storm motion. Other roof debris was lifted and carried across to the east side of Pansing Road. The final damage that was observed before the tornado lifted was on Phillipsburg Union Road approximately one half mile east of the intersection with Pansing Road. This was another instance where debris from a barn was carried a short distance to the northwest of the storm motion. This debris included a portion of the roof and wood siding. Several pine trees about 8 inches in diameter were also snapped, uplifted, and dropped pointing into the direction of the storm motion. All of the damage along the path exhibited convergent motion, along with the noted distances of debris being deposited to the northwest of the original source structures. The maximum estimated wind speed based on the damage surveyed was 85 miles per hour.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Phillipsburg	$7,000	Several trees were downed, a barn door was destroyed, siding was damaged, and a mailbox was blown over due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Swanktown	2.6 miles	10
Arlington	2.9 miles	10
Clayton	3.6 miles	13
Brookville Lakes Estates	3.9 miles	13
Wengerlawn	4.0 miles	10
Bachman	4.1 miles	10
Dodson	4.3 miles	10
Brookville	4.7 miles	10

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.

Wikipedia article on Phillipsburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673173	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 1056916. 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.

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.

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.