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

Ross, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45013. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shandon quadrangle.

Ross within Butler County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ross, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Ross, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

25,952 words on this township

The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Ross Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The work given in Fig. 55, marked IS" on the map, is now almost wholly obliterated. It was situated on sections twenty-seven and thirty-four, on the farms of B. T. Bedinger, M. A. Carnaham andR. Wade. It was surveyed in 1847 by James McBride and John W. Erwin. They describe it to have been a perfect circle, enclosing an area of twenty-six acres. The embankment was two feet high, composed of earth taken up evenly from the surface, or else brought from a distance. There was an entrance to the west two hundred and seventyfive feet wide, and upon either hand the embankment terminated in a small mound, between four and five feet high. At the eastern part of the wall was a gatcAvay, the width of which is not given. The plain upon which the work occurs is about fifty feet above the adjacent bottoms. The area of the enclosure is level, and was covered with forest trees, although small, owing to the nature of the soil, which is thin and gravelly.

Passage source: The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879.

Between this work and the one last described, Mr. Erwin states, there is or was another, but the location has passed out of his memory. It was similar, in construction, to that near Jones^ Station. In the hopes of finding it I visited the locality on the eleventh of August. I made diligent inquiry of the people in the neighborhood, among whom was Judge Fergus Anderson, but he knew nothing of it. It is probable that the w^alls were low and long since plowed down, and as no particular interest is taken in that immediate vicinity in archseology, such a matter would easily pass out of recollection.

Mr. Brown visited and located forty-nine mounds in this township, and found them to vary in height from eighteen inches to twenty-six feet. These mounds are almost wholly located in the southern half of the township. Section thirty-two contains nine, the largest of which is seven feet high by forty-five feet base, being situated in a woods on the farm of John Evans. A shaft was sunk into tliis mound, which extended to the original soil, but only a thin layer of charcoal and ashes was met with, and that near the bottom. On an adjoining farm belonging to Mr. Evans, on the point of a hill, occurs a small stone mound. A similar mound likewise situated is on the farm of William Brown. Near by is a stone circle, thirty feet in diameter, with a base of eight feet and an elevation of seven or eight inches. On the farm is still another mound located in an old field, and but 17 .

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 Ross Township - it names this place 24 more 24 times.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Old Colerain Pennsylvania Through Truss Bridge, Spanning Great Miami River at County Route 463, Ross, Butler County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 196 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 196 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ross between 1835 and 1975: 146 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 10 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 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
Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Tringa flavipes (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
Tringa solitaria A.Wilson, 1813	1879	Porter collection, J.B.
Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)	1880	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones Station
Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825	1880	not recorded

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

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Ross: 7 past producers, 7 producers, 2 plants. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
F and C Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
F and C Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fairfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fairfield Plant No. 10 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Fairfield Plant Number 10 and Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hilltop Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Indian Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Indian Creek Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ross Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ross Plant Number 15 and Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ross in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ross	$20,000	no account filed
June 2010	Flash Flood	Ross	$3,000	Water was reported over numerous roads countywide.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ross	$3,000	Several trees were downed, some on roads.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ross	$1,000	Large branches were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.

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
Birdland	0.4 miles	14
Atomic View	1.3 miles	14
Fairplay	3.4 miles	16
Shandon	3.5 miles	14
Brandy Wine	4.0 miles	16
Layhigh	4.2 miles	14
Symmes Corner	4.6 miles	16
Augusta Hills	5.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061628. 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.