Blackburn, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43149. The Survey maps it on the Clearport 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 1984The same ground, surveyed 77 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
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 Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
17 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Blackburn (historical) between 2013 and 2020, burning about 34 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 | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1426 |
| 5 April 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7765 |
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15597 |
| 24 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 March 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15489 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 3,474 shownMuseums hold 3,474 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blackburn (historical) between 1839 and 1975: 2,234 Animalia, 663 Plantae, 542 Fungi, 15 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 9 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A VERWYST, A. L. Welden 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Aecidium galii Pers. | 1883 | Kellerman, W.A. | Amanda |
![]() | Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829 | 1890 | Detmers, Freda | Sugar Grove |
![]() | Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm. | 1891 | M. Craig | Sugar Grove |
| Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray | 1839 | W. S. Sullivant | ||
![]() | Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl. | 1839 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Saxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray | 1839 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Trillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray | 1839 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Ricciocarpos natans (L.) Corda | 1840 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Rudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle | 1840 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv. | 1841 | not recorded | |
![]() | Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs | 1841 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid. | 1842 | W. S. Sullivant |
All 3,474 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buena Vista | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Mound Crossing | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Rockhouse (historical) | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| South Perry | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Gibisonville | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Pine Grove (historical) | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Rockbridge | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Laurelville | 7.2 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067394. 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.























