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Tradersville, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Somerford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43140. The Survey maps it on the London quadrangle. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.
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 London quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS London quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS London quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,370 words on this townshipHistory of Madison County Ohio, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Somerford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Ansel Bates came to this township and settled just north of Tradersville, about 1818. His children were Asa, Ansel, Elijah, William, Sylvanus and Zenas. The last two were twins. The sons were quite prominent and well known in the affairs of the county, but the latter emigrated west. William Scott settled in this township about the year 1820.' He married Betsy Rigdon and subsequently moved to Pekin, Illinois; where he died. Charles Rigdon came here from Champaign county and settled about the same time - 1820-21. Richard Baldwin came here, presumably from Chillicothe, and' settled on surveys No. 9,285 and No. 10,626, about the year 1820, where he resided until about 1837. He then removed to Mechanicsburg. Samuet Houston, a native of Pennsylvania, settled here about 1820. He married Elizabeth' Arbuckle. He was an intelligent and well-educated man and one of the township's best citizens. He taught school and was later township clerk. Michaél Statler was a native of Virginia and settled in this township on the Urbana road, about 1824. He was accidentally killed in 1842 while onving down a tree, which fell on him and crushed him.
Passage source: History of Madison County Ohio, published 1915.
The map shows. a hamlet in the northern part of the township by the name of Tradersville, but there are now only two or three houses in the place. At one time it Was an important trading center, but it long ago gave up hopes of becoming an urban eenter. The only industry represented in the place now is a general store owned by H. A. Lewis. Several years ago there was a flourishing Methodist Episcopal church in the hamlet, but it has been discontinued for many years.
Passage source: History of Madison County Ohio, published 1915.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 316 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 316 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tradersville between 1889 and 1973: 296 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. Fink, B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward, Beattie R. K. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Chrysops cincticornis Walker, 1848 | 1902 | not recorded | |
 | Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838 | 1902 | not recorded | |
 | Enallagma civile (Hagen, 1861) | 1969 | B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward | along U.S. 40, 11 miles east of Springfield |
 | Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1889 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1893 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Spizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1893 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Buteo Lacepede, 1799 | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Otus asio (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812) | 1896 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) | 1901 | not recorded | State Fish Hatchery, London in Madison Co, 4.3 mi W of London, Union township |
All 316 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 Tradersville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tradersville in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | Flash Flood | Tradersville | $10,000 | High water near Choctaw Lake caused a portion of a road to wash out. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tradersville | $1,000 | Large branches were broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Creek Village (historical) | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Choctaw Lake | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Plumwood | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Summerford | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Markley (historical) | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Rosedale | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Lafayette | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Resaca | 6.8 miles | 10 |
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 Tradersville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7832177 | 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 1047126. 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.