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.
Then and now
1907 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1907 against another survey:
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.
- 1907 USGS Logan quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Logan quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Logan quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,952 words on this township1883 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.
Fires near this place
38 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | STUMP |
| 9 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5126 |
| 4 May 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1123 |
| 6 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15615 |
| 3 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15590 |
| 3 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15614 |
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10625 |
| 21 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4566 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 234 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Uromyces junci-effusi P.Syd. & Syd. | 1910 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Equisetum arvense L. | 1937 | Sharps, M.E. | Rush Creek Twp. |
![]() | Holwaya gigantea (Peck) E.J.Durand | 1891 | W. A. Kellerman | [Specific locality illegible.] |
![]() | Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff. | 1891 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle | 1895 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Uromyces junci Tul. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Junction City |
![]() | Natrix kirtlandii (Kennicott, 1856) | 1902 | Dilto, C. R. | Perry Co., Ohio |
![]() | Puccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw. | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman & J. McOwen Jr. | |
| Podosphaera oxyacanthae (DC.) de Bary | 1903 | Black R. J. | Bremen | |
![]() | Endothia fluens (Sowerby) Shear & N.E.Stevens | 1912 | Nixon E. L. | Perry Co. |
![]() | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1915 | G.G. Hedgcock | Gainesville |
![]() | Telmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1926 | Franks, 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 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donnelly Pit | Clay, Coal | Past Producer | ||
| Maxville Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Maxville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Maxville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Junction City Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Kishler Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Kishler Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Ludowici-Celadon Donnelly Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Rush Creek Clay Company Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Rush Creek Clay Company Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarksville | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Salem | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Junction City | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Dixie | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Dicksonton (historical) | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Crossenville | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Mainsville | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Bristol | 3.6 miles | 14 |
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.























