Biography;

Geologist.  Born– September 18, 1863, Portville, N. Y.  Parents– William and Eliza Jane (Southworth) Butts.  Married Mellye Arledge, November, 1902 (died 1907).  Married Ella Virginia Rickles Pearson, November 30, 1909.  Education–Alfred University, B.S., 1899; M.S., 1900.  Employed by the United States Geological Survey, 1901-1933; by the Virginia Geological Survey, 1933-46.  An authority on the Paleozoic Formations of the Appalachian Valley. Honorary D. Sc., University of Alabama, 1927.  Died October 4, 1946.

 Sources;

Website of the Smithsonian Institute Archives, ancestry.com

Publications;

Analyses of Alabama Coals.  Birmingham, AL;  Birmingham Printing Co., 1926.

Birmingham Folio, Alabama.  Washington, DC; U. S. Geological Survey, 1910.

The Coal Resources and General Geology of the Pound Quadrangle in Virginia:  Charlottesville; University of Virginia, 1914.

Ebensburg Folio, Pennsylvania.  Washington, DC; U.S.Geological Survey, 1905.

Economic Geology of the Kittanning and Rural Valley Quadrangles, Pennsylvania.  Washington,DC; GPO, 1906.

Fensters in the Cumberland Overthrust Block in Southwestern Virginia.  Charlottesville; Va. Geological Survey, 1927.

Geologic Map of the Appalachian Valley of Virginia with explanatory Text.  Charlottesville; Va. Geological Survey, 1933.

Geology and Mineral Resources of the Bellefonte Quadrangle, Pennsylvania.  Washington, DC; GPO, 1936.

Geology and Oil Possibilities of the Equity-Shawneetown Area (Parts of Gallatin and Saline Counties). Urbana, Ill: State Geological Survey.

Geology and Oil Possibilities of the Northern Part of Overton County, Tennessee, and adjoining parts of Clay, Pickett, and Fentress Counties.  Nashville; Williams Printing Co., 1919.

Geology of Jefferson County, Kentucky.  Frankfort, Ky, 1914-15.

Geology of the Applachian Valley in Virginia.  Richmond:  Va. Conservation Commission, 1940.

Hollidays-Huntingdon Folio, Pennsylvania.  Washington, DC; U. S. Geological Survey, 1945.

Kittanning Folio, Pennsylvania.  Washington, DC; U. S. Geological Survey, 1904.

The Mineral and Forest Resources of Kentucky, vol. 1.  Frankfurt, KY; Kentucky Dept. of Geology and Forestry, 1919.

Mississippian Formations of Western Kentucky.  The State Journal Company, 1917.

The Mississippian Series of Eastern Kentucky.  Lexington, KY: Kentucky Geological Survey, 1922.

Montevallo-Columbiana Folio, Alabama.  Washington, DC; U.S. Geological Survey, 1940.

Oil and Gas Possibilities at Early Grove, Scott County, Virginia.  Charlottesville, Michie Co., 1927.

Reconnaisance Geological Map of Barren County, Kentucky.  Lexington; Kentucky Geological Survey, 1919.

Rural Valley Folio, Pennsylvania.  Washington; U.S.Geological Survey, 1905.

Warren Folio, Pennsylvania-New York.  Washington; U.S.Geological Survey, 1910.

Joint_Publications;

Geology and Mineral Resources of the Crossville Quadrangle, Tennessee.  Nashville; Department of Education, Division of Geology, 1925.

Geology and Mineral Resources of the Paleozoic Area in Northwest Georgia.  Atlanta; Atlanta Government Printing Office and Tennessee Valley Authority, 1948.

Geology of Alabama.  Birmingham Printing Co., 1926.

The Geology of Hardin County and Adjoining Part of Polk County.  Springfield, Ill:  Illinois State Journal Co., 1920.

Guidebook, Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Virginia.  Charlottesville; Virginia Geological Survey, 1938.

Iron Ores, Fuels and Fluxes of the Birmingham District, Alabama.  Washington; U. S. Geological Survey, 1910.

Southern Appalachian Region.  Washington, DC: GPO. 1932.

Tyrone Quadrangle; Geology and Mineral Resources.  Harrisburg, PA; Department of Internal Affairs, Topographic and Geologic Survey, 1939.

Papers;

 Papers of Charles Butts are held by the Archives Department of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.