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History · Batesville

Batesville’s post office opened in 1827, and 29% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1909 on and the census since 1880.

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How Batesville began

When was Batesville founded?

1827

The Batesville post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 369 in 18802020 census: 101199 years
Founding year: the first Batesville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Batesville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Batesville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19095 editions of the USGS map, 1909 to 1994. Watch Batesville change.Deep rootsA post office since 1827: 199 years of Batesville.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Batesville’s history is told.

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On the map

Batesville on the map, 1909 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Batesville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Batesville on the 1909 USGS mapBatesville on the 1911 USGS mapBatesville on the 1961 USGS mapBatesville on the 1976 USGS mapBatesville on the 1994 USGS map1909Summerfield sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Batesville.

Timeline

Batesville, 1827 to 1985

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1827Post officeThe Batesville post office opens
  3. 1872Born hereMargaret Keenan Harrais is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1909On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1985Post officeThe Batesville post office closes
The story so far

Batesville, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Batesville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Batesville is a village in Noble County, Ohio, United States. The population was 101 at the 2020 census. Batesville was originally called Williamsburg, and under the latter name was laid out in 1827.

Its first post office opened in 1827. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 71 to 101 (+42%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Batesville in 1904

Passages that mention Batesville, cut from the printed page as they were published.

Edward Fenwick came from Maryland, as a missionary to the settlements northwest of the Ohio. The same year he organized Catholics about Batesville into a parish and founded a church. It was at first. known as St. Dominic’s but was later changed to St. Mary’s. The parish prospered and in a few years…
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Edward Fenwick came from Maryland, as a missionary to the settlements northwest of the Ohio. The same year he organized Catholics about Batesville into a parish and founded a church. It was at first. known as St. Dominic’s but was later changed to St. Mary’s. The parish prospered and in a few years numbered several hundred members. In 1840 the “Congregation of the Immaculate Conception of St. Mary” was organized at Fulda. During the next nine years Father Kremer visited the church twice a month, and it was not until

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Wesleyan Methodists at Summerfield, Sarahsville and in Beaver township, the last named being founded as early as 1822; St. John’s Evangelical church, established in Elk township in 1842; Mount Hope Evangelical Lutheran church at Batesville, in 1828; and the Universalist church at Dudley, in 1878. F…
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Wesleyan Methodists at Summerfield, Sarahsville and in Beaver township, the last named being founded as early as 1822; St. John’s Evangelical church, established in Elk township in 1842; Mount Hope Evangelical Lutheran church at Batesville, in 1828; and the Universalist church at Dudley, in 1878. For more than a quarter of a century the believers in the doctrines taught by the Universalist creed had been holding meetings in this part of the county, but it was not until after the building of the railroad that they became strong enough to

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

By decade

Batesville, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Main Pike2017Main PikeBatesville from southwest2017Batesville from southwestBatesville Methodist Church2017Batesville Methodist ChurchBatesville MPT barn2017Batesville MPT barnMap of Noble County Ohio Highlighting Batesville Village2015Map of Noble County Ohio Highlighting Batesville Vill…MapOHMap-doton-Batesville2004OHMap-doton-Batesville
People over time

Batesville, census by census

010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 369

Between 71 and 369 people in every census since 1880.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Batesville’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Batesville had its own post office from 1827 to 1985.

Batesville
1827–1985
18201920today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Batesville’s history

What year was Batesville founded?

The Batesville post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.