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

South Hamilton, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hamilton City. It lies in ZIP code area 45011. It stands on Crawford Run. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton quadrangle.

South Hamilton 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 South Hamilton, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of South Hamilton, surveyed 1915

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

179,514 words on this township

A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Hamilton City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Rev. Arthur W. Elliott was the most famous of the early Methodist preachers in this county. Although _ others preceded him, he was the contemporary of those who made the beginnings and first uttered the Word of God to the hardy pioneers of this county. He was born in the county of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, on the 22d of February, 1784. At the age of eighteen, moved by the spirit of adventure, he fell in with the tide of emigration, just then beginning to set powerfully toward the great Northwest Territory. On horseback he crossed the Alleghanies, and continued his course westward until he reached the Miami Valley, where he determined to make his future home. He went back to Maryland soon after, where he was married in 1804, and in the year 1805 returned, settling in Liberty Township. Here he remained for many years.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

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 Hamilton City.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 465 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 465 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Hamilton between 1835 and 1975: 404 Animalia, 47 Plantae, 11 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 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
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Diadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 1859	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1879	not recorded	Hughes

All 465 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 South Hamilton: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 2 plants, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Armco Inc/ Hamilton, Ohio	Iron	Unknown
Aggregate Services Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
American Materials/ Hamilton, Ohio	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Fairfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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 Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
New Miami Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
New Miami Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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
Lindenwald	0.7 miles	16
Sharon Park	0.8 miles	15
East Hamilton	0.9 miles	15
Griesmer Addition	1.1 miles	16
Dixiedale	1.2 miles	16
Hamilton	1.2 miles	15
Columbia Heights	1.3 miles	15
Ixworth (historical)	1.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1069280. 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.