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

Pisgah, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45069. The Survey maps it on the Mason quadrangle.

Pisgah within Butler County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Pisgah, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Pisgah, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

16,981 words on this township

A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on West Chester Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Gano is a small place on the southern portion of the township, on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad, and is a station built since that road was put through, by Charles Gano, of Cincinnati. This was in 1874. In 1879 Mr. Charles Gano, Jr., built a large flouring-mill and did a fine business, but unfortunately the mill took fire soon after it was erected and burned down. The ambition of the village tempered down after the loss of the grain trade incident to this event, and Maudville was left thenceforth as cock of the walk. A- well one hundred and twelve feet deep was dug near this mill for water, but gas was discovered and from that time to this it oozes up in great quantity. This gas was conducted by a pipe into the mill and was used for drying the wheat; it probably comes from the decomposed matter of the drift below, and is odorless. Mr. C. L. Gano owns a beautiful residence in this place.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

Rialto is owned by the Friend & Fox Paper Company, and consists of three mills, about seven miles from Hamilton, on the edge of the canal. It manufactures book and news paper. Capacity, five thousand and five hundred pounds per day. The new Crescent mill, built in 1881, is a mile below the others, and is illuminated by electric lights, and filled with the finest machinery made in the East. It manufactures roofing and wrapping papers. The original manufactory was a grist-mill, begun by Taylor Webster, who did a good business for many years. He sold to Beatty & Cooper, who sold to Friend & Fox.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

William Belch came here as early as 1812 or 1815. He was a Pennsylvania German, and very energetic. He kept the first hotel of the place many years before he died, after which his son William kept it fifteen or twenty years longer. William and James Van Hise started a hotel about 1838, and also a store and postoffice. This was the first post-office in Pisgah. It was subsequently kept by David Conover and James Middleton, and now by 8. M. Sprinkle. The two Van Hises also kept the first store. They carried on the business a number of years, and were the last to keep hotel.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, 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 West Chester Township - it names this place 12 more 12 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 265 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 265 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pisgah between 1879 and 1975: 254 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, Bartley, F., Belk, E. 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
Leptostromataceae	1883	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)	1879	W. Douglass	Jones Station
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Diadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 1859	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Storeria occipitomaculata Storer, 1839	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Tringa flavipes (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
Tropidoclonion lineatum (Hallowell, 1856)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones Station
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)	1880	not recorded	Monroe

All 265 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pisgah in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pisgah	$40,000	Several trees and powerlines were downed along Cleves Road.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Pisgah	$10,000	Several large trees were reported down along with several power poles due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Pisgah	$3,000	Power poles and lines were blown down at State Route 27 and Herman Road in Ross Township due to thunderstorm winds. The road was shut down as a result.
July 2013	Hail	Pisgah	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Brookside Estates	0.3 miles	15
Orchard Acres	0.4 miles	15
Country Acres	0.6 miles	15
Circle View Acres	0.8 miles	15
The Woods	0.8 miles	15
Clearview	0.9 miles	15
Tall Timber Estates	1.0 miles	15
Concord Hills	1.0 miles	15

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 Pisgah	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24885974	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 1061545. 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.

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.