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

Plattsville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45365. The Survey maps it on the Fletcher quadrangle.

Plattsville within Shelby County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plattsville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Plattsville, surveyed 1914

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

20,708 words on this township

History of Shelby County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Green Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

John Ellsworth came from Clarke County, Ohio, in February, 1817, with wife and family, and settled on the N. VV. quarter of section 18. Tliaddeus Tuttle settled on a part of section 13 in 1818. Peter Princehouse came to the township about 1817 or '18. William Richardson was an early settler in the township.

Passage source: History of Shelby County, Ohio, published 1883.

In about 1820 or 1821 Dr. Pratt came into Green Township, and remained about one year. The next was Dr. Little, who remained several years. Dr. Leedom has been a practising physician in the vicinity of New Palestine since 1842, and at this time has a large and extensive practice. Dr. Hunt, a homoeopathic, is located a short distance south of New Palestine, and has a good practice. Drs. Shaw and Beamer are located iu Plattsville, Green Township, and both are good men in the profession.

Passage source: History of Shelby County, Ohio, published 1883.

The first mill was erected by John Medaris. It was a corn cracker, located near where Plattsville now stands, on which he ground corn for the early settlers of the township, or any others that would come to his mill. In 1826 or 1827 William Ellsworth erected a water power saw mill on Leatherwood Creek near Plattsville, which was the first saw-mill in Green Township. Abraham Medaris also erected a saw-mill, a few years later, a short distance below where Ellsworth mill stood on Leatherwood Creek. Samuel Robinson built a saw-mill on the same stream, near where Henry Robinson now lives, several years after the Medaris mill was erected. In 1854 the Hageman Brothers erected a steam saw-mill one mile south of Plattsville, which is now owned and operated b} - J. I*. Hageman. In 1865 John Sargeant and John Neal built a steam saw-mill on the John Sturm farm near New Palestine. In 1879 Gabriel Harbaugh ! came into the township with a portable steam saw-mill, which he located at the four corners, on the southwest corner of section 11, where it is now standing, and is operated by Harbaugh and McClain, who are doing an extensive business in the manufacture and sale of all kinds of hard wood lumber, also poplar and linn lumber. In the fall of 1881 they supplied their mill with new machinery, and a new forty-horse power engine, which gives them the power or capacity to cut from 8"00 to 10,000 feet of lumber in ten hours.

Passage source: History of Shelby 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 Green Township - it names this place 18 more 18 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 203 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 203 specimens collected within 10 miles of Plattsville between 1897 and 1967: 164 Animalia, 20 Fungi, 18 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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
Sorghum Moench	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	Shelby Co., Ohio.
Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub	1902	Grover, F.O.	Opens woods, N. Amherst, near F & D Quarry
Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1939	not recorded	Miami River
unnamed	1897	WA Kellerman	Shelby County
Carex shortiana Dewey & Torr.	1897	Wetzstein, A.
Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1897	Selby A. D.	Kirkwood
Sorosporium reilianum (J.G.Kühn) McAlpine	1897	W. A. Kellerman
Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton	1897	Kellerman W. A.	Shelby Co.
Ustilago reiliana J.G.Kühn	1897	W. A. Kellerman
Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1904	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	New Bremen, Shelby, Ohio, USA
Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.	1909	Fisher G. Clyde	Sidney
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1914	Russell A. B.	Sidney

All 203 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plattsville in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 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
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Plattsville	$1,000	A large tree was downed.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Valentine (historical)	1.2 miles	15
Hageman (historical)	1.6 miles	15
Depew	2.0 miles	15
Ballou	2.4 miles	15
Tawawa	2.6 miles	15
Pasco	3.7 miles	15
Hickory Dell Estates	4.6 miles	16
Pemberton	4.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049088. 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.