Starbucktown, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45177. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Wilmington quadrangle.
Then and now
1907 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 79 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.
- 1907 USGS Blanchester quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Blanchester quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Blanchester quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
In the 1915 county history
7,216 words on this townshipThe county history of 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Union Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Union Township - 7,216 words.
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 358 shownMuseums hold 358 specimens collected within 10 miles of Starbucktown between 1892 and 1974: 301 Animalia, 47 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr. | 1923 | Taylor, C.L. | Wilmington |
![]() | Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Snell | 1935 | Cooke, William Bridge | Cowan's Creek |
![]() | Boletus bicolor Raddi | 1935 | Cooke, William Bridge | Cowan's Creek |
![]() | Desmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC. | 1892 | J. S. Vanderwort | New Antioch |
![]() | Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl. | 1901 | Hartley C. P. | Sabina |
![]() | Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817) | 1911 | not recorded | Clinton, North America |
![]() | Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Wilmington |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1926 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map |
![]() | Mustela frenata Lichtenstein, 1831 | 1927 | Hazard, F. O. | Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA |
All 358 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Starbucktown: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melvin Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Melvin Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Wilmington | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Melvin | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Powderlick | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Town And Country Estates | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Little Center | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Ogles (historical) | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Burtonville | 5.1 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 Starbucktown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22134301 | 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 1046638. 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.

























