Southworth, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spencer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45887. It stands on Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Delphos quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Delphos quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Delphos quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Delphos quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Delphos quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Delphos quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
23,566 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Spencer Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Spencer Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 252 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 252 specimens collected within 10 miles of Southworth between 1865 and 1975: 250 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by *ood, Almen N., Buhlman, M. & Buhlman, M., Bureau of Fisheries 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818 | 1908 | not recorded | Auglaize River, Defiance |
![]() | Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819) | 1908 | Bureau of Fisheries | Auglaize River, Defiance |
![]() | Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1908 | not recorded | Auglaize River, Defiance |
![]() | Lophanthus nepetoides (L.) Benth. | 1865 | Holzer, L. | Delphos |
![]() | Hybopsis biguttatus (Kirtland, 1840) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township |
![]() | Notropis boops Gilbert, 1884 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township |
![]() | Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township |
![]() | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township |
![]() | Notropis volucellus volucellus | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township |
![]() | Opsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 1881 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township |
![]() | Lepomis humilis (Girard, 1858) | 1939 | Roszman, F. D. | Jennings Creek, within Van Wert Co, Van Wert County, township n/a |
All 252 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Southworth: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suever Stone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Suever Stone Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant |
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southworth in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southworth | - | A trained weather spotter measured a wind gust of 65 mph. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southworth | - | Local media reported a two year old roof was blown off a hog barn near the intersection of Southworth Road and Zion Church road, near Spencerville. The barn was roughly 100 yards long. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Needmore (historical) | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Hartford (historical) | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Village Courts I | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Landeck | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Spencerville | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Village Courts II | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Conant | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Holland Court | 4.9 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049197. 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.
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.

























