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Auburn Corners, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Auburn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44023. It stands on Fire Run. The Survey maps it on the Burton quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 89 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
14 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.
- 1905 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
44,957 words on this townshipPioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Auburn Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Oliver W. Ludlow, son of Francis Ludlow, was born in Seneca, Cayuga county, New York, in 1800, and moved with his parents to Westfield, New York, in 1807. At the age of nineteen, with a few shillings in his pocket, he started on foot for Painesville, Ohio, and there engaged in teaching. In 1822 he went to Burton, Ohio, where, he taught school with good success until 1824, where he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Goodwin. In 1825 he went to Chardon, Ohio, where he continued his medical studies with Dr. Denton; also taught school there with much credit to himself. In 1827 he married Miss Harriet Metcalf, of that place. They had eight children - Maria A., Linaeus C., Benjamin F., Washington I., Lycurgus, Louisa M., Harriet E. and Oliver E. In the fall of 1829 he went to New York to attend the New York Medical college; during the winter of 1830 he went to Geneva and taught school in order to defray his expenses through college. August 17, 1830, he received his diploma from the New York Medical academy. That fall he returned to Chardon and moved his family to Newbury, Ohio. In 1831 he began the practice of medicine in that and surrounding townships. In 1838 he moved to Auburn corners, where he practiced medicine until his death, which occurred in 1865. He died very suddenly, after having visited several patients on the day of his death. The cause of his death was a rupture of the left ventricle of the heart. Dr. Ludlow, during the last thirty years of his life, was not a religious man, in the ordinary sense; he believed in humanity, a common brotherhood and friendship for the stranger; he believed in less creeds and formalities, and in mere acts of benevolence, and bis life was a testimony of the sincerity of his belief. He was very benevolent, often taking provision and clothing from his own home to supply the wants of the poor, and in several cases has given doctor's bills as high as sixty dollars, and furnished money to move poor families to western lands. Deeply interested in education, he was ever stirring to introduce modern improvements into the common schools, and when people were so indifferent to new books, he was often heard to say, "that he was one hundred years in advance of his time." Astronomy was a favorite study of his, and he lectured on that subject several years. As a physician, he was very successful. His prAfessional labors were very arduous, seldom a day passing without finding him giving faithful attendance to the duties of his profession. A close student, when not on duty he was absorbed in study. Literally, he gave his life to humanity, and totally ignored self. The community mourned his loss, and, in testimoney of their respect, erected a monument to his memory, in the cemetery at Auburn Corners. Mrs. Ludlow, wife of the Doctor, was one of the best of women, and was highly respected by every one that knew her. She survived him a number of years, and, after a lingering disease of cancer in the stomach, death came to her relief. She died in 1870.
Passage source: Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Auburn Corners between 2020 and 2020, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15457 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 870 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 870 specimens collected within 10 miles of Auburn Corners between 1887 and 1975: 761 Animalia, 103 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hoenigman, A. M. Evans, A. Woolman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Riparia riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1891 | Fred Haggart | |
 | Medeola virginiana L. | 1895 | Watson,J.R. s.n. [1895-06-30] | [label: Herbarium of J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Geauga Co. [County] |
 | Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort. | 1896 | Edo N. Claassen | Thompson Ledges |
 | Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray | 1887 | Leonard, F.E. | Munson |
 | Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790) | 1889 | Collector(s): F. S. Haggart | No specific locality recorded. |
 | Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt. | 1890 | M. Rodman | Sugar Grove. |
 | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Aurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Aurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio |
 | Nocomis micropogon (Cope, 1865) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Aurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio |
 | Noturus flavus Rafinesque, 1818 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Aurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio |
 | Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804) | 1893 | Woolman | Aurora branch of Chagrin River, Ohio |
 | Cypripedium reginae Walter | 1896 | J. R. Watson | Geauga |
All 870 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Auburn Corners: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haueter Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Haueter Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Teague Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn Corners in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn Corners | $150,000 | Winds estimated gusting to 64 miles per hour capsized five sailboats at LaDue Reservoir. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Auburn Corners | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree limb which damaged a barn. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Auburn Corners | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn Center | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Popes Corners | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Burton Lake | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| South Newbury | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Julia (historical) | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Welshfield | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Beartown | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Taborville | 4.6 miles | 17 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122569242 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064356. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.