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Decorative drawing: a timber barn frame skeleton with ridge beam and rafters. Not a photograph of this place.

Meigsville Township

The complete chapter on this township from Census 1880 Morgan County Ohio, published in 1880. 77 words, covering 3 settlements.

Contents

1 section

The section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.

The modern record here

3 settlements

What the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.

SettlementFires Storm reportsMines and quarries Specimens
Mill Grove251-585
Neelysville1027590
Unionville13-1574

Settlements in this township

3 places

Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 0 of the 3 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.

The chapter

77 words

Reproduced complete and unedited. The text is machine-read from a scan of the 1880 printing, so expect the errors a machine makes reading a century-old page: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the book's own.

Meigsville Township

This census was taken beginning on June 3, 1880 by N B Spencer, Enumerator. The information in this booklet was copied from microfilm records on file in the Kate Love Simpson Library (Morgan County Library System), McConnelsville, Ohio. Abbreviations used are explained in the Introductry Material to this book. The two numbers before each family are the number of the residence and the family living there respectively. Fon example, 1-1 refers to the first residence and the

Provenance

Text from Census 1880 Morgan County Ohio, by Various, published 1880 and in the public domain in the United States. Digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.