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

Shiloh, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Pike Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45106. The Survey maps it on the Hamersville quadrangle.

Shiloh within Brown County

Then and now

1928 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shiloh, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Shiloh, surveyed 1928

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

18,904 words on this township

The History of Brown County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County ... General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Brown County; Constitution of the United States .., published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Pike Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

'.v That the men of Jefferson Township bore an honorable part in the great struggle with secession, during the four long, eventful years from 1861 to 1865, and performed deeds of loyalty and heroism, the hotly contested fields of Cheat Mountain, Green Brier, Chickamauga, Stone River, Shiloh, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and many others bear ample evidence. Among those who slumber in unknown and unmarked graves beside the still waters of the South, lie a number of the sons of Jefferson Township, there to await the reveille of the heroic, when time shall be no more. But the memory of their heroic acts will be cherished in the hearts of a grateful people, who to the latest generation will call them blessed. We give herewith a list of those who entered the service of their country from Jefferson Township, and were honorably discharged by death or expiration of time of enlistment:

Passage source: The History of Brown County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County ... General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Brown County; Constitution of the United States .., published 1883.

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 Pike Township.

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shiloh between 2012 and 2012, burning about 0 acres 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
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 November 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 313 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 313 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shiloh between 1886 and 1974: 178 Animalia, 109 Fungi, 24 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. B. Seymour, A. Braun 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hirneola auricularis (Gray) DonkHirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk1903Blickle, A.H.Brown County, Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1916A. B. Seymour
Specimen of Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)1929A. Braun[Not Stated]
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Equisetum hyemale, not of this specimenEquisetum hyemale L.1897Kreke, Fr. M.Arnheim
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1905Stephens J.Mt. Orab
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1907Berry M. D.?Georgetown
A photograph of the species Perenniporia robiniophila, not of this specimenPerenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden1909J. P. Tracy
Secotium agaricoides (Czern.) Hollós1913Lyon C. D.Georgetown
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1915Fulford, MargaretBlowville Flats
A photograph of the species Anaptychia palmulata, not of this specimenAnaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak Creek
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak

All 313 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shiloh in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2020FloodShiloh-Water was reported on Gargonia Road.
April 2019FloodShiloh-High water was reported over Gargonia Road, which prompted its closing.
September 2012HailShiloh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Neals Corner1.9 miles10
Locust Ridge2.5 miles12
New Hope3.1 miles10
New Harmony3.2 miles18
Mount Orab3.5 miles13
Whiteoak Springs (historical)3.6 miles10
Andersonville3.9 miles13
Bodman3.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063014. 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.