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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

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.

Aaronsburg within Morrow County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The 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 sheet of Aaronsburg (historical), surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Aaronsburg (historical), surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 sheets

Matched 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2012

The 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/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 December 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morrow County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 172 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.1890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & SwingleUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1890Kofoid
A photograph of the species Polystichum acrostichoides, not of this specimenPolystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott1835Joseph C. FrankOhio, s.loc.
A photograph of the species Usnea florida, not of this specimenUsnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Ascochyta Lib., not of this specimenAscochyta Lib., 18301883Kellerman
A photograph of the species Nummularia microplaca, not of this specimenNummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke1883W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Septoria ribis, not of this specimenSeptoria ribis (Lib.) Desm.1883W. A. Kellermann
A photograph of the species Uromyces Unger, not of this specimenUromyces (Link) Unger, 18331883Kellerman
Specimen of Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de BarySphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary1891Kofoid
Specimen of Dispira cornuta Tiegh.Dispira cornuta Tiegh.1895R. Thaxter
Specimen of Stereum bicolor (Pers.) Fr.Stereum bicolor (Pers.) Fr.1896C. 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Sparta0.4 miles9
Bloomfield2.9 miles10
Vails Corners3.9 miles10
Chesterville5.7 miles9
Marengo6.1 miles9
Pagetown7.1 miles10
Bennington Springs7.3 miles9
Fargo7.7 miles10

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.