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

Snow Hill, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45159. The Survey maps it on the New Vienna quadrangle.

Snow Hill within Clinton County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Snow Hill, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Snow Hill, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

3,412 words on this township

History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Green Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The white man evidently made his first appearance in this township about the year 1800. The exact time when he came here is not a matter of record, and tradition is not authentic in such matters. 'The first settlers to take out land with the intention of making this their permanent home wefe Joseph Anthony, who came here from Virginia ; Abner Van Meter and Samuel Clevenger; Morgan Van Meter, who was a native of Morgantown, Virginia, and who settled in the vicinity of Snow Hill in the year 1800. Van Meter purchased two hundred acres of land, on which he erected a double log house and this was the first log cabin erected in the township.

Passage source: History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915.

As one bit of living organism will attract others. so this small settlement in the far-off wilderness served as a nucleus around which many others gathered. Joshua and Stephen Hussey emigrated from North Carolina. their native state. in the year 1806-07 and bought land in this township, a portion of which is included in the present limits of the town of New Vienna. The first house built by these brothers was only a_ short distance from New Vienna. Charles Harris. who was the father of Elisha Harris. bought a tract of land in this township and began the work of improving it and getting it under cultivation. About the same time. Thomas Cox. who was the father of Vincent Cox. of New Vienna. settled here. Other early settlers who assisted in the upbuilding of the township. are Joseph Anthony, William Noble, Sr... Aaron Cox and Eliha Noble. Charles Harris built the "Snow Hill house." and opened a tavern there. probably the first opened in the county. Mr. Harris's brother-in-law. Samuel Wasson. built a house about the same time and near the Snow Hill house and commenced to entertain travelers.

Passage source: History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915.

Snow Hill is the only other hamlet in this township, and is one of the early towns laid out in the county. It was platted and laid out for Charles Harris, proprietor, November 11, 1817. on the William Talifairo survey No. 192.

Passage source: History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915.

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

Fires near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Snow Hill between 2002 and 2002, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

New Vienna

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 427 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 427 specimens collected within 10 miles of Snow Hill between 1892 and 1974: 238 Animalia, 163 Fungi, 13 Plantae, 12 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, A. (Avery) 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
Entyloma compositarum Farl.	1894	F. L. Stevens	Highland Falls.
Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899	1922	Cooke, William Bridge	Seven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Desmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.	1892	J. S. Vanderwort	New Antioch
Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)	1911	not recorded	Clinton, North America
Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Wilmington
Cladonia coniocraea (Flörke) Spreng.	1923	Braun, E. Lucy	Klock's Crossing
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1923	Taylor, C.J.	Wilmington
Parmelia Acharius, 1803	1924	Taylor, L.	Wilmington
Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf	1924	Taylor, C.L.	Wilmington
Mustela frenata Lichtenstein, 1831	1927	Hazard, F. O.	Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1929	Hazard, F. O.	near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio

All 427 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Wallopsburg	2.1 miles	11
New Vienna	2.4 miles	11
Farmers	3.0 miles	11
New Antioch	4.1 miles	11
Morrisville	4.4 miles	11
Martinsville	5.3 miles	11
Lees Creek	6.1 miles	11
Burtonville	6.2 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 Snow Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134281	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 1065490. 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.