BlockRobtown, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scioto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43113. The Survey maps it on the Darbyville quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Era quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Era quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Era quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Darbyville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
6,693 words on this townshipHistory of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Scioto Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
James Johnson, Francis Rush and Moses Rawlins came about 1808; John, Hugh and Andrew Shaw and James Miller, about 1809; Joseph Reed and John Nevins. about 1810; while Andrew Jordan and Charles Williams settled here in 1811. Charles Williams always bore the reputation of a Tory and it is said that for many years he would buy no land, claiming that the King of England would yet own the country. John ("Jack") Stinson and Joshua Williams came here in 1812: Michael Robinson and son Isaac, in 1822. The Robinsons settled in the south part of the township at what is now known as Robtown. Isaac Smith, Joseph Gochenouer and his son George -came here about 1827. Joseph Gochenouer exchanged property in Virginia for 1,000 acres of wild land in the General Porterfield survey, west of Commercial Point. William Harlor. John Fretwell, Robert Gibson and Wilev H. Beckett, who was the founder of the village now known as Commercial Point, came here about 1829. In the early '30's. John W. Lane. Robert Wilson, Mason Cleveland, James H. Burnley and John Mundell came here. James H. Burnley laid out the town of Rome, which with the town of Genoa became the village of Commercial Point. Other early settlers of the township were: William Mires. Andrew Galbreath, John Martin, William and Robert Seeds, Samuel Sayres, James Sample. Daniel Harper. John R. Davis, James Redman. Enoch Henry. Martin Boots, Alexander Rafferty, Peter Dechert, Anthony Coontz, James Ward. Griffith Justice, Rufus Dennis, Thomas Strain, John and James Walker. Daniel Pursell, George Hott, J. W. Durrett, Luke Wilkins, William Boyd, Absolom Van Vickie, Jacob W. Stiverson, Joshua Hil, Jacob Grabill, James M. Johnson, Jonathan E. Trimmer, James Meeker and the Choates.
Passage source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906.
A regular Baptist society, commonly known j as Primitive Baptists, was organized about i 1829 at Darbyville. The organization was re- i moved, in 1874. to Scioto township to the lo-- , cal i tv now known as Matville, two miles west 'j of Commercial Point, where a church building 1 was erected at a cost of S600. Regular services, held once a month by Elder Hanover, have an average attendance of about 40. Annually, j on the third Saturday and Sunday in June, the j Baptist Association holds services in Beaver Grove near Matville, which are attended by from 3,000 to 4,000 people.
Passage source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906.
"Thompson, named above, settled at Chilllcothe some time before 1800, in which year he came to Scioto township and located on the McMahon survey. John Thompson came about the same time as his brother Thomas ; both were soldiers -of the Revolutionary War. William Ballard settled on Darby Creek in 1800 and the following year located in Scioto township. George West, who was a Virginian, bought about 900 acres of the Butler survey on the Scioto River in the southeastern part of the township. Capt. Eleazar Williamson was a member of General Braddock's army in the French and Indian War, and took part in the battle where Braddock was defeated and killed. In the War of the Revolution he took an active part ; afterwards he was captain of a company under Colonel Crawford in the latter's campaign against the Indians, in 1782. He settled near Chillicothe in 1800, and eight years later moved to Scioto township, where he bought a farm which was part of the Taggart & McLaughlin survey.
Passage source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906.
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 Scioto Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Robtown in 2009, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,859 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,859 specimens collected within 10 miles of Robtown between 1829 and 1975: 2,807 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender, Abbott, R; and others 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Rallus elegans elegans Audubon, 1834 | 1829 | Florence, A. (Arledge) | Col Anderson farm 6 1/2 mi west of Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
 | Caprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 1812 | 1876 | Jones, H. (Howard) | Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
 | Lanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 1898 | 1877 | Jones, H. (Howard) | Goose Pond, near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
 | Hirundo rustica erythrogaster Boddaert, 1783 | 1879 | Jones, H. (Howard) | near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
 | Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812) | 1880 | Jones, H. (Howard) | near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
 | Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | Mearns, E.A. | Circleville near Scioto River. |
 | Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | Jones, H. (Howard) | near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
 | Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 1808 | 1881 | Jones, H. (Howard) | Scioto River bottoms near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
 | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota (Vieillot, 1817) | 1881 | Jones, H. (Howard) | near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
 | Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1881 | Jones, H. (Howard) | near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
| Vermivora pinus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1881 | Jones, H. (Howard) | near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA | |
 | Bubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788) | 1882 | Jones, H. (Howard) | Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
All 2,859 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robtown in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 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 2019 | Flash Flood | Robtown | - | High water resulted in the closure of a road near State Route 316 and Commercial Point Road. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Robtown | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darbyville | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Scioto Estates | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Commercial Point | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| South Bloomfield | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Matville | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Millport | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Little Walnut | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Pherson | 5.3 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061617. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.