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Plattsburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harmony Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45368. The Survey maps it on the South Vienna quadrangle.

Plattsburg within Clark County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plattsburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Plattsburg, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

50,366 words on this township

The History of Clark County Ohio,, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Harmony Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This excellent flouring-mill is on the line of the N. Y., P. & O. Railroad, three and a half miles west of Springfield, and on the right bank of Mad River. It was erected in 1831-32, by Peter Sintz, Sr., and was improved in 1880 by J. & S. Arthur, the present owners. Mr. Sintz managed the milling business here nearly twenty years, and then leased it to George Grisso for five years. The Atlantic & Great Western Railway Company (N. Y., P. & O.) then purchased it of Sintz about the year 1804. It was subsequently sold at Sheriff's sale, and was purchased by George Grisso for $6,500. Grisso ran the business till 1879, when Joseph Arthur became the owner, and in a short time was succeeded by his two sons, J. & S. Arthur. The building is six stories high, forty by sixty feet in size, uses two American turbine wheels, and is valued at $8,000. Does all kinds of custom work. J. & S. Arthur, proprietors, Springfield, Ohio.

Passage source: The History of Clark County Ohio,, published 1881.

This place of public interment was laid out by the Sinking Creek Baptist society in 1817, and is located on Section 5, near the right bank of Sinking Creek, one-half mile north of Junction Mills, is twelve rods wide and twenty rods long, and is inclosed by a substantial board fence. The marble slabs erected to perpetuate the memory of the dead tell of the names, ages and date of death of a number who were pioneers of the neighborhood as follows:

Passage source: The History of Clark County Ohio,, published 1881.

Other cemeteries in this township is the Newcomer Cemetery, in Section 24, north of Lagonda, where there is quite a large burial ground, and on which lot the United Brethren Society built their chapel in 1845; and the Huffman Cemetery, in Section 21, on the Valley Pike, close to the line of Bethel Township, on the hill overlooking the Mad River Valley. This is a small lot, thirty by fifty feet, and has been used mostly by Jacob Huffman and his descendants.

Passage source: The History of Clark County Ohio,, published 1881.

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 Harmony Township - it names this place 30 more 30 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 355 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 355 specimens collected within 10 miles of Plattsburg between 1870 and 1974: 297 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Leeds, A. R. Boone, B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Mannia triandra (Scop.) GrolleMannia triandra (Scop.) Grolle1877J. E. Biddlecome
Specimen of Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) RaddiReboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi1877J. E. Biddlecome
Specimen of Ustilago heufleri FuckelUstilago heufleri Fuckel1917E.R. Leonard
A photograph of the species Bryum pseudotriquetrum, not of this specimenBryum pseudotriquetrum var. bimum (Schreb.) Lilj.1870J. W. EckfeldtSpringfield
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax subsp. orthocladon (P.Beauv.) Wijk & Margad.1870J. W. EckfeldtSpringfield
A photograph of the species Schwetschkeopsis denticulata, not of this specimenSchwetschkeopsis denticulata (Sull.) Broth.1870J. W. EckfeldtSpringfield
A photograph of the species Asterella tenella, not of this specimenAsterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.1871Hannah J. BiddlecomeSpringfield
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1871Hannah J. BiddlecomeSpringfield
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1875Hannah J. BiddlecomeSpringfield
A photograph of the species Aulacomnium heterostichum, not of this specimenAulacomnium heterostichum (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.1876Hannah J. BiddlecomeSpringfield
A photograph of the species Cratoneuron filicinum, not of this specimenCratoneuron filicinum (Hedw.) Spruce1876Hannah J. BiddlecomeSpringfield
A photograph of the species Drepanocladus aduncus, not of this specimenDrepanocladus aduncus (Hedw.) Warnst.1876Hannah J. BiddlecomeSpringfield

All 355 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plattsburg in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPlattsburg$4,000Trees were downed along Plattsburg and Buena Vista Roads.
April 2019Tornado (EFU)Plattsburg-A tornado was observed by eyewitnesses and caught on video. It stayed over open fields and caused no damage.
April 2003HailPlattsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
South Vienna2.1 miles12
Hollandia View2.5 miles14
Lisbon2.7 miles12
Sylvan Shores3.2 miles12
Brighton3.5 miles12
Oxtoby (historical)4.5 miles14
Lakeview Acres4.5 miles14
Harmony4.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1085482. 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.