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One of 82 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Morgan Township House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 6464 Okeana Drewersburg Rd., Okeana, 45053
- When was it listed? 2016-11-02
- Category. building
- Township. Morgan township
- National Register reference number. 16000753 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1915 to 1996The ground this property stands on, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The ground it stands on
16,590 wordsThe chapter on Morgan Township in A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names Okeana. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Before this village was regularly laid out it went by the name of the Tariff Post-office. Some of the early settlers, disliking the name, had it changed, by petition, to Okeana. Okeana was the name of the daughter of the Indian chief, Kiatta. The Rev. Benjamin Lloyd, a native of Wales, and a son of Rev. Rees Lloyd, platted the village on land which he owned at that time, and gave the place its name. The town, as it now is, stands mostly in School Section No. 16, which was bought by Charles Shields, but who in turn sold a portion of the section to Mr. Lloyd.
Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.
Among the first residents of the village were the sons of Benjamin Lloyd, Samuel, William, and Alexander, the latter of whom was a storekeeper on the corner where J. E. Boze now resides. Charles Shields was a storekeeper here in 1845, in the house now occupied by James Applegate. Jenkins & Evans were here as commercial men in the Boze residence before Lloyd. William Wright was another business man in Okeana, in a one-story house which stood in the forks of the road. The building was removed, and afterwards was occupied for a dwelling, but is now deserted. Henry Brandenburg, one of the noted storekeepers of the place, bought the store goods and real estate of Samuel Lloyd, and in 1873 or 1874, erected the present fine building where the Phellis Brothers keep. William Mercer was a storekeeper here at one time; he was followed by Samuel Gwaltney. Thomas and Charles Jones were here also for some time, in the old Shields property. William De Armond had'a little store in the yard of the Shields estate. Then came Jeremiah Day in the same house. In 1850, or thereabouts, Alexander De Armond and Joseph Smith were here engaged in selling dry goods and groceries. The present. storekeepers are J. W. Phellis and Perry Clawson.
Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, 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 Morgan Township - 16,590 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 83 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 83 specimens collected within 10 miles of Morgan Township House between 1891 and 1974: 68 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Botaurus Stephens, 1819 | 1891 | J. S. Ligon | Ross Lake |
 | Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791) | 1901 | Sterki, Victor | Hamilton |
 | Bacidia inundata (Fr.) Körb. | 1909 | Bruce Fink | |
 | Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850 | 1927 | Stace, J. B. | Paddys Run, within Morgan township, near Layhigh, Morgan township |
 | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Indian Creek, within Reily township, near Reily, Reily township |
 | Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Indian Creek, just north of Reily, ~0.2 mi N of Reily, Reily township |
 | Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Indian Creek, within Reily township, near Reily, Reily township |
 | Hybopsis Agassiz, 1854 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Great Miami River, at Venice, at Ross OH, southern Ross Township |
 | Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | not recorded | Great Miami River, no more precise locality data, at Ross OH, Colerain Township |
 | Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Indian Creek, within Reily township, near Reily, Reily township |
| Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Great Miami River, at Venice, at Ross OH, southern Ross Township | |
 | Rhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 1854 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Indian Creek, within Reily township, near Reily, Reily township |
All 83 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this property
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okeana, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okeana | $12,000 | Trees and power lines were downed across the county. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Okeana | $7,500 | Several private bridges were washed out. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okeana | $7,000 | Minor shingle and trim damage occurred to some homes. A camper was tipped over and recreational equipment was blown over. |
| September 2018 | Lightning | Okeana | $5,000 | A barn fire was caused by a lightning strike. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okeana | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Okeana | $3,000 | Water at least 2 feet deep was reported flowing through portions of Morgan Township. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okeana | $3,000 | Trees downed. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okeana | $2,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okeana | $2,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okeana | $1,000 | A tree was downed on South Weaver and Cincinnati-Brookville Road. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Okeana | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Flood | Okeana | - | High water was reported on Race Lane Road and Alert New London Road. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Okeana | - | Residual high water was reported on a few roadways in the area. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Okeana | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
7 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1915 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
- 1992 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:24000
- 1996 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Thomas Select School | 3.1 miles | 1977 |
 | John Vaughan House | 3.3 miles | 1975 |
 | John Scott Barn and Granary | 4.1 miles | 2005 |
 | Shaw Farm | 5.7 miles | 1974 |
 | James P. Hidley Cottage | 6.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Cochran Farm | 6.4 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000753 in Record Group 79. |
| Butler County | All 82 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.