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

Port Union, 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 45011. The Survey maps it on the Glendale quadrangle.

Port Union 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 Port Union, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Port Union, 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.

He lived one year in Fairfield Township after being married, and in the Spring of 1868 came to Union Township, conducting the farm now owned by Christian Moerlein first, and then a place near Port Union for four years. He then bought the place now owned by William W. Graham, and resided there seven years. In the Fall of 1879 he sold out, and the following Spring purchased the farm where he now lives, formerly the Captain Moore farm. It comprises two hundred and twenty-five acres, and has a handsome residénce upon it, with pleasant surroundings. Mr. and Mrs. Steinman are members of the Lutheran Church at Hamilton. He is a Democrat in polities.

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

Port Union. He afterwards removed to his present home, a short distance south of Port Union, where he owns eighty-three acres, having on the old place one hundred and fifty acres. He was a director in the infirmary board some nine years. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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

After marriage he came to Butler County, in 1860, locating in Union Township.. After four years in Union Township he went to Fairfield Township, where he conducted the Windisch farm for twelve years. It was the farm formerly owned by R. M. Shoemaker. In the Spring of 1877 Mr. Townsend purchased the farm formerly owned by E. Beckley, consisting of one hundred and sixty-five acres of. fine land, with residence and ample buildings. He had no start in life, and has wrought his destiny himself. He and his wife are worthy members of the Methodist Church at Port Union.

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 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 432 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 432 specimens collected within 10 miles of Port Union between 1835 and 1975: 379 Animalia, 39 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Leptostromataceae	1883	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Lancaster.
Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey	1835	Collector unknown	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.	1835	Collector unspecified	"Miami"
Carex gracillima Schwein.	1835	B. Frank	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
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
Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1879	not recorded	Hughes

All 432 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Union in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
May 2022	Flash Flood	Port Union	$10,000	Four people had to be rescued from a vehicle stranded in high water near the intersection of Beckett Ridge Boulevard and Crossbridge Drive.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Union	$10,000	Siding was bulged out at a home along West Chester Road. A maple tree was demolished on the property. Additional trees were knocked down through Liberty Township.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Port Union	-	Significant flooding was reported along Rupp Farm Drive in West Chester.
July 2023	Hail	Port Union	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Port Union	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Port Union	-	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
Rialto	0.8 miles	15
Beckett Ridge	1.8 miles	15
Flockton	2.0 miles	15
Jones (historical)	2.1 miles	16
Stockton	2.3 miles	16
Tylersville	2.8 miles	15
Millikin (historical)	2.9 miles	15
Westchester	2.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049101. 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.