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

Shenandoah, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bloominggrove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44878. The Survey maps it on the Olivesburg quadrangle.

Shenandoah within Richland County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shenandoah, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Shenandoah, surveyed 1908

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

8,572 words on this township

History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Bloominggrove Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Union Church, near Shenandoah, was erected about 1849, principally b}- the Presbj'terians. the German Reformed, Methodists, and Church of God. Jacob Cline gave one acre of ground for the church and graveyard. The principal movers in the erection of the church were Christian LTrick, David Miller, Tobias Fox, George Burgoyne, Charles Saviers, Peter Secrist, William Foulks, Daniel Quinn, and Henry Young. IMinisters of every denomination are allowed to occup}' the pulpit. It is a large, active church, more than one hundred members of the different denominations worshiping here. The Sunday school is also large and active, with a membership of an average of eighty or more pupils.

Passage source: History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., published 1880.

Near it stands the Disciples' Church of Shenandoah, organized in March, 1876. This society, for years, worshiped in the Union Church, but finally gi'ew strong enough to erect a building of its own, in 1879. The principal members are Doctor Starr, Frank ^lorris, David Miller, John Mercer, Henry Cline, Milo Starr, Alanson Martin and I. P. Morris. This is a neat frame building, and cost about $3,000. Rev. John Lowe was their first and also the

The next attempt to build a city in the township was on the northwest quarter of Section 8. Here Alfred Foulks laid out a town which he called Rome. It is situated on " Beall's Trail." It was platted on both sides of the road and became the largest of the three villages. Its growth was, at first, more healthy than that of

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 Bloominggrove Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 139 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 139 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shenandoah between 1869 and 1975: 87 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 23 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Percival, Berra, T. (Tim), Chase, H. (Hazel) 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
Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum	1895	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield. In low woods.
Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton	1897	W. A. Kellerman
Ustilago reiliana J.G.Kühn	1897	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb.	1869	N. L. Britton	northern Ohio
Linum usitatissimum L.	1885	Wilkinson, E.	along RR banks, Mansfield
Equisetum arvense L.	1888	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Anemonella thalictroides (L.) Spach	1892	E. Wilkinson	Richland County
Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen	1892	Wilkinson, E.	Richland County
Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs	1892	E. Wilkinson
Carex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.	1892	E. Wilkinson
Juglans nigra L.	1892	E. Wilkinson
Lysimachia nummularia L.	1892	E. Wilkinson	Richland

All 139 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shenandoah: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Ohio Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Ohio Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Richland Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Richland 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
Rome	1.9 miles	14
Adario	3.0 miles	15
Ganges	3.3 miles	14
Olivesburg	4.1 miles	15
Epworth	4.7 miles	14
Planktown	5.6 miles	14
Amoy	6.4 miles	14
Shiloh	6.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049174. 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.