Andersonville, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sterling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45154. It stands on Indian Camp Run. The Survey maps it on the Mount Orab quadrangle.
Then and now
1917 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 69 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
13 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.
- 1917 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mount Orab quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Mount Orab quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Mount Orab quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Mount Orab quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
1 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Andersonville between 2012 and 2012, burning about 0 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 November 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 353 shownMuseums hold 353 specimens collected within 10 miles of Andersonville between 1886 and 1974: 173 Fungi, 156 Animalia, 22 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. B. Seymour, A. Braun 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Hirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk | 1903 | Blickle, A.H. | Brown County, Ohio |
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1916 | A. B. Seymour | |
![]() | Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939) | 1929 | A. Braun | [Not Stated] |
| Chordata | 1886 | Smithsonian Institution | ||
![]() | Uromyces phaseoli G.Winter | 1905 | Stephens J. | Mt. Orab |
![]() | Perenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden | 1909 | J. P. Tracy | |
![]() | Polytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot | 1915 | Fulford, Margaret | Blowville Flats |
![]() | Anaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain. | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak Creek |
![]() | Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak |
![]() | Usnea subfloridana Stirt. | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak |
![]() | Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm. | 1924 | Braun, E. Lucy | Sardinia |
![]() | Sticta fuliginosa (With.) Ach. | 1924 | Braun, E. Lucy | Sardinia |
All 353 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastwood | 0.6 miles | 13 | |
| Bodman | 1.1 miles | 13 | |
| New Harmony | 2.3 miles | 18 | |
| Centerville | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Bardwell | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Locust Ridge | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Crosstown | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Mount Orab | 3.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061245. 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.























