Aaronsburg, Ohio
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in South Bloomfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43334. It stands on Hulse Hill. The Survey maps it on the Chesterville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1915 to 1966The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1915 USGS Fredericktown quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Fredericktown quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Chesterville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chesterville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
Fires nearby
1 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Aaronsburg (historical) between 2012 and 2012, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 172 shownMuseums hold 172 specimens collected within 10 miles of Aaronsburg (historical) between 1835 and 1974: 151 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Adler, K. K., C. G. Lloyd 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Bovistella Morgan | 1885 | A. P. Morgan | |
![]() | Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh. | 1890 | A. P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle | 1890 | Kofoid | |
![]() | Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott | 1835 | Joseph C. Frank | Ohio, s.loc. |
![]() | Usnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg. | 1838 | not recorded | |
![]() | Ascochyta Lib., 1830 | 1883 | Kellerman | |
![]() | Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke | 1883 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Septoria ribis (Lib.) Desm. | 1883 | W. A. Kellermann | |
![]() | Uromyces (Link) Unger, 1833 | 1883 | Kellerman | |
![]() | Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary | 1891 | Kofoid | |
![]() | Dispira cornuta Tiegh. | 1895 | R. Thaxter | |
![]() | Stereum bicolor (Pers.) Fr. | 1896 | C. G. Lloyd |
All 172 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparta | 0.4 miles | 9 | |
| Bloomfield | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Vails Corners | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Chesterville | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Marengo | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Pagetown | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Bennington Springs | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Fargo | 7.7 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067295. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.




















