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

Asbury, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43748. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Asbury within Perry County

Then and now

1907 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Asbury (historical), surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Asbury (historical), surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the county-history sources

2,952 words on this township

1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Mount Hope was laid out in 1835, by George Kishler and Patrick Sweeney. The point was a public cross-roads. and the site of the village was a beautiful one: but it was never built up to any considerable extent. It had for a long time a post office. (Asburv), and a good country store, with a shop or two, perhaps. The village never amounted to much, ond has gone down entirely. The Asbury post office has also ceased to be.

Passage source: 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Jackson Township.

Fires near this place

38 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Asbury (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestSTUMP
9 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5126
4 May 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1123
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15615
3 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15590
3 April 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15614
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources10625
21 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4566

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 234 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 234 specimens collected within 10 miles of Asbury (historical) between 1891 and 1975: 171 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 21 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bergstrom, J., Black R. J., Buchanan, J. 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 Uromyces junci-effusi P.Syd. & Syd.Uromyces junci-effusi P.Syd. & Syd.1910W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Equisetum arvense L.Equisetum arvense L.1937Sharps, M.E.Rush Creek Twp.
A photograph of the species Holwaya gigantea, not of this specimenHolwaya gigantea (Peck) E.J.Durand1891W. A. Kellerman[Specific locality illegible.]
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Puccinia schedonnardi, not of this specimenPuccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle1895W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Uromyces junci, not of this specimenUromyces junci Tul.1901W. A. KellermanJunction City
A photograph of the species Natrix kirtlandii, not of this specimenNatrix kirtlandii (Kennicott, 1856)1902Dilto, C. R.Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Puccinia muhlenbergiae, not of this specimenPuccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw.1902W. A. Kellerman & J. McOwen Jr.
Podosphaera oxyacanthae (DC.) de Bary1903Black R. J.Bremen
A photograph of the species Endothia fluens, not of this specimenEndothia fluens (Sowerby) Shear & N.E.Stevens1912Nixon E. L.Perry Co.
A photograph of the species Coleosporium carneum, not of this specimenColeosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1915G.G. HedgcockGainesville
A photograph of the species Telmatodytes palustris, not of this specimenTelmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810)1926Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)Honey Creek, Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA

All 234 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Asbury (historical): 7 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Donnelly PitClay, CoalPast Producer
Maxville QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Maxville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Maxville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Junction City Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Kishler Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Kishler Clay PitClayProducer
Ludowici-Celadon Donnelly PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Rush Creek Clay Company PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Rush Creek Clay Company PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

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
Clarksville1.6 miles13
Salem2.3 miles13
Junction City2.7 miles13
Dixie3.1 miles14
Dicksonton (historical)3.3 miles14
Crossenville3.4 miles13
Mainsville3.4 miles14
Bristol3.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067167. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.