Phoneton, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1986

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.

• 1904 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Tipp City quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Tipp City quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Tipp City quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Tipp City quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Tipp City quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Bethel township, in the words of 1880.

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 159 specimens collected within 10 miles of Phoneton between 1835 and 1975: 148 Animalia, 7 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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
	Uredo	1897	Prof. W.A. Kellerman
	Botryodiplodia (Sacc.) Sacc.	1921	L.M. Fenner	Mill Creek Farm
	Poria ambigua Bres.	1928	F.O. Grover; G.T. Jones	Brown, Chance Creek
	Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, Miami [County]
	Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. arbuscula (Berk. & Broome) Nann.-Bremek., 1975	1897	Thaxter, R.	USA, Florida, Cocoanut Grove
	Mermis Dujardin, 1842	1897	F. Johnston	New Carlisle
	Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1903	not recorded	New Carlisle
	Campeloma decisum (Say, 1817)	1926	Wright, Herman P
	Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)	1926	Wright, Herman P
	Physidae	1926	Wright, Herman P
	Sphaeriidae	1926	Wright, Herman P
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1927	Thomas, E. S. (Edward S.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Near Vandalia, Montgomery Co., Ohio

All 159 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Phoneton: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. 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.

Every working recorded in Miami County

The National Weather Service names Phoneton in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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.

Every storm recorded in Miami County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065233. 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.