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

Austinburg, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Austinburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44010. It stands on Coffee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashtabula South quadrangle.

Austinburg within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Austinburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Austinburg, surveyed 1905

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,331 shown

Museums hold 1,331 specimens collected within 10 miles of Austinburg between 1872 and 1975: 1,161 Animalia, 145 Plantae, 23 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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 Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.1872L. B. Tuckerman
Specimen of Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, not of this specimenHymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon1872not recorded
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1891J. B. Brockway
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1891not recordedGeneva
A photograph of the species Riccia fluitans, not of this specimenRiccia fluitans L.1892E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1893Woolman & United States Fish CommissionGeneva, Cowles Creek
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, not of this specimenDendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines1893A. A. BillGeneva

All 1,331 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

11 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Austinburg in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2008Flash FloodAustinburg$150,000Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches fell in an east-west line across Ashtabula County just north of Jefferson. Several flooded basements were reported due to high creek flows, and multiple roads in the area were closed due to high water, including State Route 306 northwest of Jefferson.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. A couple streets were blocked by the fallen trees.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$8,000Several large limbs and power lines downed from severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed two trees along State Route 45.
September 2012HailAustinburg$2,500The public reported quarter size hail in Austinburg.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindAustinburg$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree on Lampson Road just west of State Route 45.
May 2013HailAustinburg-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2012HailAustinburg-Quarter to half dollar sized hail was observed.
June 2008HailAustinburg-Nickel size hail was observed.
May 1998HailAustinburg-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodAustinburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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
Munson Hill2.3 miles14
Mechanicsville2.4 miles17
Chapel2.5 miles14
Cold Springs2.8 miles12
Eagleville3.9 miles12
Saybrook3.9 miles14
Meadowood4.4 miles14
Holdlen Hills4.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064361. 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.

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.