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

Sharpsburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gibson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45846. The Survey maps it on the Rossburg quadrangle.

Sharpsburg within Mercer County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sharpsburg, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Sharpsburg, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

8,829 words on this township

History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907 names this settlement in its chapter on Gibson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The southern and western part of Gibson township was largely settled by people from Southern Ohio and Pennsylvania, who originally came from Virginia and North and South Carollina, although a few came from Delaware. Among the early settlers in this section were the families of James -Cummins, Henry Denney, Benjamin Clark and William F. Denney, who came from Gallia County, Ohio ; the Clarks, who came from England ; Wateman Hastings and Solomon Collins, who came from the State of Delaware ; and Robert Hunter, James Alexander and David Hays who came from Fairfield County, Ohio - all of these settled in Gibson township about the same time. Nathan S. Scranton settled on a farm in Gibson township in 1849; the Scranton family, who were originally from the State of Connecticut, came to Mercer County from Medina County, Ohio. Near the town of Fort Recovery and north of the first neighborhood, Robert Travis, Edward Jones, Sylvester Schutt, Jacob Schaffer, Jacob Stuber and Joseph Clark and their families settled. In the eastern part of the township, around Sharpsburg, Aaron Rood and wife and' his sons, L. B. Rood and Alpha Rood, who were Yankees in every sense of the word; the Jones and Hall families and the families of Thomas Rockwell, Jacob and George Meyers and William Snyder - all of whom came from Butler County, Ohio - settled at an early date. In the same section of the township also settled John L. Fox, David Johnson, John Hedrick and Abraham Mott, Sr. - Abraham and James Z. Mott, sons of the lastnamed pioneer, still live in the township. The Lowry family came in at a later date and its representatives are still living in the township. Samuel Briner, Samuel Keller, David F. Blake (who went to Missouri in 1857), George Sigler, M. W. Diggs and George Painter were early settlers in the southern part of the township. Other early settlers were James Watkins, Daniel Broclc and John McDaniel.

Passage source: History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907.

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 Gibson Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 85 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 85 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sharpsburg between 1888 and 1959: 60 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Clark, C. (Clarence), Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.) 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
unnamed	1934	P. P. Pirone	Coldwater
Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Fort Recovery
Podosphaera leucotricha (Ellis & Everh.) E.S.Salmon	1906	Selby A. D.	Sharpsburg
Colletotrichum cereale Manns	1908	Selby A. D.	Sharpsburg
Colletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson	1908	Selby A. D.	Sharpsburg
Glomerella graminicola D.J.Politis	1908	A. D. Selby	Sharpsburg.
Didelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr, 1792	1911	L. L. Walters	Ft Recovery, 4 mi SE
Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1913	Goodrich, Calvin	Monterey
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1913	Goodrich, Calvin	Fort Recovery(3 mi E)
Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1913	Goodrich, Calvin	St Henry
Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Wabash River, within Mercer Co, Mercer County, township n/a
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Wabash River, within Ex southeast Granville township, near Burkettsville, Granville township

All 85 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharpsburg in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 3 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
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sharpsburg	$5,000	Large limbs were knocked down due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sharpsburg	$2,000	Trees were reported knocked down across the road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Sharpsburg	$1,000	Large tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Wendelin	2.4 miles	12
Burkettsville	3.7 miles	12
Saint Joseph	4.3 miles	12
Fort Recovery	4.7 miles	14
Saint Henry	5.1 miles	12
Saint Peter	6.0 miles	12
Philothea	6.4 miles	12
Monterey	6.9 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 Sharpsburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134264	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 1061199. 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.