Whiskyville, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Amherst Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44001. The Survey maps it on the Oberlin quadrangle.
Then and now
1901 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed 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.
- 1901 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1903 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
21,546 words on this townshipHistory of Lorain County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Amherst Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Whisky was in the beginning of the settlement a legal tender or a circulating medium. Notes were made payable in whisky upon condition that the corn crop pi'oved good, and payable in hickory nuts if the corn cro|) should be poor. Not long after Jacob Shupe started his distillery several others were put in operation, and one locality had so many at one time that it was dubbed " Whiskyville" - a name which it retains to this day. Nearly all of the whisky manufactured was for home consumption, and was often given in payment for a day's work or in exchange for various commodities. The liquor had at least one merit. It was an honest article. The equivalent in money, for a gallon of whisky, was from a shilling up to twenty cents, and even two shillings. The distillers after Jacob Shupe were Michael Oustine, Ste- ])hen Gunn, Nathan Edson, Lewis Shupe, Elias ilann, .John Hildebrand & Snider, and Ira Tillotson.
Passage source: History of Lorain County, Ohio, published 1879.
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 2,151 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,151 specimens collected within 10 miles of Whiskyville between 1853 and 1975: 1,054 Animalia, 830 Fungi, 225 Plantae, 17 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 12 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Recksecker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cantharellus minor Peck | 1896 | F.D. Kelsey | Near Oberlin |
![]() | Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst. | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Oberlin. |
![]() | Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr. | 1896 | Kelsey, Francis Duncan | Kipton |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1853 | Baird, Spencer Fullerton | Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1853 | S. Baird | Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls) |
![]() | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
![]() | Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828) | 1894 | Dawson, W. L. (William Leon) | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
| Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard | 1894 | Kelsey, F.D. | Lorain County, Ohio | |
| Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1894 | F.D. Kelsey | Oberlin | |
![]() | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr. | 1894 | F. D. Kelsey |
All 2,151 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Whiskyville: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cleveland Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Finnegan Quarry | Stone | Producer | ||
| Lorain Cnty Hwy Dept. Stone Quarry | Stone | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Kendeigh Corner | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| South Amherst | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| West Ridge Green | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Twin Lakes Homes | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Brownhelm | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Penfield Junction | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Oberlin | 5.0 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067451. 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.
















