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

Westboro, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45148. The Survey maps it on the Blanchester quadrangle.

Westboro within Clinton County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Westboro, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Westboro, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Jefferson township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915 - Jefferson Township

Early Settlers

Samuel Jackson bears the distinction of building the first house in this township about the year 1812. Mr. Jackson had emigrated from Tennessee in the year 1800, and had settled in the eastern part of what is now Highland county, on Rocky fork. Hunting was his chief occupation and during the year 1801 he killed two panthers and quite a number of deer and bears.

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In the county-history sources

2,916 words on this township

History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The surface of Jefferson township is generally level, but is susceptible of drainage at a reasonable cost. The only broken land in the township lies along the West fork of the Miami river and near the Brown county line, but this portion of land may be cultivated without difficulty and is now under a good state of cultivation. Jefferson township is drained by the West fork of the Miami river, which is the only stream flowing through this township, although it has as its branches and tributaries Plum run, Dry run, Moon's branch, Hale's branch, Lick branch, Sugartree branch and Bee branch. The West fork, as it is known to the natives, enters the township in the northeastern parti and runs in a southwesterly direction to a point near the village of Westboro, where it bears south, crossing the Brown county line, and continues about one and one-half miles in the same direction and empties into the East fork of the Little Miami river.

Passage source: History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915.

Clinton county was visited by a great tornado, May 22, 1860, which was especially destructive to Jefferson township. It made havoc with the timber, much of which was broken down and torn up by the roots, or bent and damaged. This storm also did much damage to buildings and orchards, many houses and barns being unroofed. A portion of the brick school house at Westboro was blown down while school was in session, but, thanks to Him who "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," no one was injured; also a portion of the Methodist Episcopal church at Westboro was blown down. This storm was probably the most remarkable meteorological occurrence that has been witnessed since the settlement of the township. . SOIL.

Passage source: History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915.

Peter Shick made the first settlement north of where the Baltimore & Ohio railroad now runs. Mr. Shick was a Baptist minister and settled here in 1830. Among the other early settlers of the township wha came here and became permanent and prominent settlers were, William Garner, Joseph Hinshaw and Granville Haines, who settled in the Westboro neighborhood; Thomas Moon, Nathan Hoggatt, Jesse Hockett and others, in the Hale's branch neighborhood; Joseph D. Moon, Daniel H. Moon, John Holaday, Thomas B. Johnson and John W. Johnson, who settled on or near the old road leading from Martinsville to Woodville.

Passage source: History of Clinton County Ohio, published 1915.

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 Jefferson Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 275 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 275 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westboro between 1906 and 1973: 208 Animalia, 48 Fungi, 16 Plantae, 3 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
Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Snell	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Boletus bicolor Raddi	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Clavaria cristatula Henn. & E.Nyman	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek.
Cicada sayi Smith & Grossbeck, 1907	1906	W. Templin	Blanchester
Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1913	Braun, E. Lucy
Cladonia coniocraea (Flörke) Spreng.	1923	Braun, E. Lucy	Klock's Crossing
Catharinea undulata (Hedw.) F.Weber & D.Mohr	1930	Fulford, Margaret H.	North of Westboro
Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1930	Fulford, Margaret	north of Westboro
Plagiothecium denticulatum (Hedw.) Schimp.	1930	Fulford, Margaret	north of Westboro
Polytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot	1930	Fulford, Margaret	north of Westboro
Boletus L.	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan's Creek
Clavaria muscoides Linnaeus, 1753	1935	Cooke, William Bridge	Cowan Creek

All 275 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westboro in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Westboro	$15,000	A large tree was blown down and a roof was blown off of a house near the intersection of Westboro Road and Old US Route 68. Several homes in this vicinity sustained minor roof and siding damage from fallen trees and large limbs.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Westboro	$8,000	A few trees and power lines were downed.
April 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Westboro	$5,000	The tornado began on Chaney Road, barely on the Clinton County side of the county line, where roof damage was observed on an outbuilding. On Weisflock Road, a barn was overturned and large tree limbs were knocked over. The last damage was observed on Oakgrove Road, where a barn was destroyed and tree damage was noted.
August 1997	Flash Flood	Westboro	$5,000	Thunderstorms with heavy rainfall lasted for several hours causing several roads to be closed due to high water flowing across them.
February 2025	Flood	Westboro	-	High water was reported on Jonesboro and Hales Branch Roads.
April 2019	Flood	Westboro	-	Hales Branch Rosd near Jonesboro Road, was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Midland	1.7 miles	14
Blanchester	4.2 miles	14
Klocks Crossing	4.2 miles	11
Jonesboro	4.7 miles	11
Pansy	4.8 miles	14
Martinsville	5.9 miles	11
Cuba	6.0 miles	11
Morrisville	7.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058130. 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.

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.