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

Waynesville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45068. It stands on Satterthwaites Run. The Survey maps it on the Waynesville quadrangle.

Waynesville within Warren County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Waynesville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Waynesville, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

18,319 words on this township

The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Before 1819, the channel of the river on the road to Corwin was not as now, but where the bridge now is was in the bend of a horseshoe, the channel above and below the bridge having been made since. The crossing of the river was between High and Main streets, in Waynesville. When the water was high, there was a ferry used, and when low, a ford. About 1812, an effort was made to build a bridge at the ford. The abutments were raised and a superstructure was placed on trestles. A freshet in the river swept out the work and no further effort was made to build a bridge at that place. In 1817, a bridge was built on a contract, where the bridge now is, by John Satterthwaite, for $700, including the abutments. It was built of oak timber, principally hewed, never covered or weather-boarded, and only lasted about ten years. At that time, the road crossed the West Branch of the Miami, known as the race at the mouth and followed the north bank of the Miami to the bridge. The race wsa then a small stream, no bridge over it; the ford was a very bad crossing.

Passage source: The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882.

In 1803 a store was kept at the east angle of the crossing of High and Third streets by David Holloway. A few years after, Jacob Pierson kept a store there for some time. Shortly after, a store was kept at the north angle of the same crossing, and in 1810 by Seth Silvers. In 1808, David Brown built a house on Outlot No. 4, Waynesville, and kept a small store there; in 1806, David Pugh had a store on Main street; in 1810, on the same street, by

Passage source: The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882.

I deem it not improper here to give some of the early prices of lots and land. I find that after Faulkner got a patent for 208 acres (Waynesville), deeds were given, and the considerations therein mentioned, by David Faulkner, in 1807, as follows: Lots 8 in Miami square, 5 and 7 in Washington square, to Jonathan Newman for $32; Outlot No. 14, to Joel Wright for $8.16; Lots No. 5, 6 and 7, Miami Bqu#re, to Samuel Test, $87; Lots No. 6 and 8, Washington square, and 3, 4, 7, 8, Adams square, Outlot 7 and part of 8, to Seth Silver, for $122.04; to Zadock Street, Lots No. 1 and 3, in Washington square, $2.04; to Merrick Starr, Lots No. 2, 3, 4 and 6, President square, $2; to Rowland Richards, Outlot No. 13, $8; to David Linton, Out lots No. 5 and 6, $10; to David Holloway, Lot 5, Wabash square, Lot 1, Jefferson square, Outlots 12 and 17, $400.

Passage source: The History of Warren County, Ohio, 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 Wayne Township - it names this place 12 more 12 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 3,065 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,065 specimens collected within 10 miles of Waynesville between 1844 and 1974: 2,956 Animalia, 51 Plantae, 45 Fungi, 11 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, ANSEL JOHN 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
Polyporus dryophilus Berk.	1844	Lea T. G.	Waynesville
Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1862	Whiteaves, Joseph F.	Little Miami Riv., Warren Co.
Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820)	1862	Whiteaves, Joseph F.	Little Miami Riv., Warren Co.
Actinonaias ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)	1879	Whiteaves, Joseph F.	Little Miami Riv., Warren Co.
Megalonaias gigantea (Barnes, 1823)	1879	Whiteaves, Joseph F.	Great Miami Riv.
Saponaria officinalis L.	1881	not recorded	Lebanon
Achillea millefolium subsp. millefolium	1884	Bennett, F.G.	Lebanon
Agrostemma githago L.	1884	Bennerht, F.G.	Lebanon
Anthemis cotula L.	1884	Bennett, F.G.	[Lebanon]
Asclepias syriaca L.	1884	Berrerlt, F.G.	near Lebanon
Calystegia sepium (L.) R.Br.	1884	not recorded	Lebanon
Campsis radicans (L.) Bureau	1884	Bennett, F.G.	Near Lebanon

All 3,065 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Waynesville: 2 plants, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lytle Pit & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Spring Valley Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Spring Valley Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Waynesville Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wilson Site Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waynesville in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$50,000	Trees were downed and a barn was destroyed.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$15,000	Roof blown off a building and numerous trees downed.
May 2009	Hail	Waynesville	$10,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$6,000	Power lines were downed, and a tree fell on a car in Hamilton Township.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$5,000	Trees knocked down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$5,000	Trees and power lines downed.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$5,000	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$3,000	Trees were downed.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$3,000	Trees were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$3,000	Two trees were downed on the west side of Caesar Creek State Park. Penny size hail also fell for a short period.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$3,000	Large limbs were downed along a park trail at Caesar Creek State Park.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$3,000	Trees and large limbs were knocked down.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$3,000	Numerous trees were blown down in the village.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Waynesville	$3,000	Roads closed and street flooding on West Clarksville Road
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$2,000	A power pole was snapped in half along Lytle Road.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	$2,000	Numerous trees were downed or uprooted.
June 2000	Hail	Waynesville	-	Both quarter and dime size hail was reported.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Waynesville	-	Estimated wind gusts.
April 1998	Hail	Waynesville	-	A thunderstorm left a path of large hail across the northern part of the county. The hail accumulated several inches deep in spots.
June 2011	Hail	Waynesville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Waynesville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Waynesville	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Waynesville	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Waynesville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Corwin	0.5 miles	13
Crosswick	1.1 miles	13
Edgewood (historical)	2.9 miles	13
Venable (historical)	3.2 miles	13
Lytle	3.3 miles	13
Mount Holly	4.1 miles	13
Kitchener (historical)	4.2 miles	13
Dodds	4.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1047634. 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.