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

Augusta, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Augusta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44651. It lies in Stony Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Minerva quadrangle. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.

Augusta within Carroll County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Augusta, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Augusta, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

10 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Augusta between 2004 and 2018, burning about 82 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1101
2 May 2015Arson/incendiarism35 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1441
7 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11626
12 April 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 214 shown

Museums hold 214 specimens collected within 10 miles of Augusta between 1928 and 1975: 151 Animalia, 63 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, E. J., Bezdek, F. H., Buchanan, F. (Forrest) 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
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Hybopsis amblops, not of this specimenHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Notropis photogenis, not of this specimenNotropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township

All 214 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

17 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Augusta in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2010Flash FloodAugusta$25,000Law enforcement reported SR 9 closed due to flash flooding near Augusta.
March 2010Flash FloodAugusta$25,000Law enforcement reported SR 9 closed due to flash flooding.
July 2013Tornado (EF0)Augusta$20,000An NWS storm survey found a EF-0 tornado touched down in Carroll county and crossed into extreme western Columbiana county west of Summitville. See Storm Data for Columbiana county for the remainder of this tornado. The tornado touched down near the intersection of Apollo and Merline Roads, where a metal roof of a grain silo was removed and a small barn damaged. The path continued near Marigold Road where a trampoline was wrapped around a power pole. Damage to trees was then found along Nature and Lewis Roads, before the storm passed into Columbiana county near Acker Road. The total path of the tornado was 3.2 miles, with the maximum path width 75 yards. Estimated maximum wind speed was 75 MPH.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindAugusta$15,000The 911 call center reported trees down near Augusta.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindAugusta$4,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAugusta$2,000The Department of Transportation reported trees down along State Route 9 at mile marker 26.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAugusta$2,000Department of Highways reported trees down along Route 9 north.
June 2000Flash FloodAugusta$2,0002.5 inches of rain in a one-hour period washed out a culvert.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAugusta$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew several large tree limbs down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindAugusta$2,000Trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindAugusta$1,000Several trees down.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindAugusta$1,000Trees down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAugusta$1,000A few trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2025Heavy RainAugusta-A member of the public reported 2.90 inches of rain from thunderstorms.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAugusta-Two trees down on State Route 171.
April 2004HailAugusta-no account filed
May 1998HailAugusta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Pattersonville1.7 miles14
Watheys2.4 miles14
Specht2.6 miles14
Norristown3.9 miles14
Eckley4.5 miles16
Wyncrest5.6 miles16
Hibbetts5.7 miles14
Pekin5.8 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on AugustaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4820880The 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 1070668. 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.

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.