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

Reesville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45166. The Survey maps it on the Sabina quadrangle. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Reesville within Clinton County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Reesville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Reesville, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Richland township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Clinton County, Ohio, published 1882 - Richland Township

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The township has good drainage through the waters of Lee's creek in the sonth and Rattlesnake creek in the northeast corner. As tributaries to this latter creek and serving as an excellent drain for the eastern part, are Palmer's branch. Wilson's branch and Grassy branch, and the western part is drained by Anderson's and Todd's fork.

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In the county-history sources

77,341 words on this township

The History of Clinton County, Ohio, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Richland Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Lucinda (Ruble) Morton. He (Richard) was born in the same township and was a son of Joab Morton, of Kentucky, who settled in this county about 1813. Richard Morton was married to Lucinda, the daughter of William Ruble, an old settler in the county. To Richard Morton and wife ten children were boin, eight of whom are living, viz., W. R., Sarah J., Cynthia A., John H., James M., Richard, Elizabeth and Mary B.; Lucretia and Isaiah deceased. Mrs. Morton died in 1861. The boyhood of our subject was passed on the farm, and in the district schools received his literary education. At the age of twenty-eight years, he began the study of medicine under a learned physician, who was his preceptor until he entered the Cincinnati School of Medicine and Surgery during the term of '69 and '70, from which institution he graduated and immediately entered upon his profession at Centerville, Ohio, for four years, when he removed to Reesville, where he has since attended to the demands of his practice.. The Doctor is a member of the Clinton County Medical Association, to which he has belonged almost from its organization. He is a worthy member of the Centerville subordinate Lodge of I. O. 0. F., No. 531, and also of the Sabina Encampment, No. 182. In 1862, while in Henry County, Iowa, the Doctor volunteered in Company B, of the Twenty-fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, for three years. He saw active service the whole time, and passed through about thirty engagements. He was honorably discharged in 1865. January 9, 1867, he was married to Miss Ellen, daughter of Isaac Johnson, of Clinton County, Ohio, who has borne him five children - four living, viz., Catherine L., Oliver P., Angie and Leslie ; Richard, deceased. The Doctor and his estimable wife are worthy members of the Christian Church of Reesville.

Passage source: The History of Clinton County, Ohio, 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 Richland Township - it names this place 22 more 22 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 196 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 196 specimens collected within 10 miles of Reesville between 1892 and 1974: 183 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, A. (Avery) 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
Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Cambarus ortmanni Williamson, 1907	1938	R. Rhoades	Woods along Anderson Fork, Wilson Township
Desmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.	1892	J. S. Vanderwort	New Antioch
Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1901	Hartley C. P.	Sabina
Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)	1911	not recorded	Clinton, North America
Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Wilmington
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.J.	Wilmington
Parmelia Acharius, 1803	1924	Taylor, L.	Wilmington
Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf	1924	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map
Mustela frenata Lichtenstein, 1831	1927	Hazard, F. O.	Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1929	Hazard, F. O.	near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio

All 196 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Reesville: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Melvin Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Melvin Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reesville in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Reesville	$5,000	Numerous trees were snapped and some power poles were downed.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Reesville	$1,000	A semi-trailer was blown over on U.S. 22 near Reed Road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Reesville	$1,000	A pole was knocked down on OH-72 and Black Road.
July 2025	Flood	Reesville	-	High water was reported on Polk Road near Weaver Road.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Sabina	2.2 miles	11
Melvin	2.2 miles	11
Sabina Manor Estates	2.4 miles	11
Powderlick	2.5 miles	11
Bloomington	4.1 miles	11
Clinton	4.1 miles	14
Lees Creek	4.5 miles	11
Starbucktown	5.8 miles	14

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 Reesville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7307022	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 1061594. 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.