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Blairsville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pierce Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45157. It stands on Pond Run. The Survey maps it on the New Richmond quadrangle.

Blairsville within Clermont County

Then and now

1929 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blairsville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Blairsville, surveyed 1929

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 765 shown

Museums hold 765 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blairsville between 1866 and 1975: 608 Animalia, 134 Fungi, 13 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN AND R KNOTTS, A. Braun, A. F. Braun 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 Apophthisis pullata Braun, 1915Apophthisis pullata Braun, 19151929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1866Mohr, C.Bantam
A photograph of the species Asarum canadense, not of this specimenAsarum canadense L.1877Mohr, MarieClermont County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Leiothlypis peregrina, not of this specimenLeiothlypis peregrina (A.Wilson, 1811)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanLocust Corner
A photograph of the species Vireo griseus, not of this specimenVireo griseus noveboracensis (Gmelin, 1789)1879Freeman, L.Locust Corner, Clermont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Geastrum lageniforme, not of this specimenGeastrum lageniforme Vittad.1882Carley S. T.
A photograph of the species Liobunum Agassiz, not of this specimenLiobunum Agassiz, 18461890[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Mammuthus primigenius, not of this specimenMammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) (fossil)1900not recorded
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821904Lindahl, J. (Joshua)Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1909Braun, E. Lucy9-mile road in Ninemile
A photograph of the species Bryum argenteum, not of this specimenBryum argenteum Hedw.1909Braun, E. Lucy9-mile road in Ninemile
A photograph of the species Obovaria retusa, not of this specimenObovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant

All 765 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Blairsville in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Blairsville$400,000The first sign of tornadic damage was observed on Locust Corner Road in Pierce Township near the Pierce Township Nature Area where several trees were snapped. A power pole was also snapped on the corner of Locust Corner Road and Wagner Road.||Damage continued on Locust Corner Road near the Pierce Township Park. Damage was mostly in the form of snapped trees and downed tree branches. Several evergreen trees were also uprooted.||Further east, beginning at the intersection of Lewis Road and Locust Lake Road, tree damage continued and was more significant. Structural damage was also observed at the 1300 block of Locust Lake Road. The most significant damage occurred to a home which had its roof completely lifted off and displaced into the backyard. Damage here was estimated to be EF1 in nature, with maximum winds near 110 MPH. Other homes further east on Locust Lake Road also suffered damage, including shingles ripped off and several instances of siding partially or completely removed from multiple sides of several structures. Multiple trees also fell onto one of the homes, resulting in roof damage.||To the east of Locust Lake Road, any structural damage was more sporadic and primarily consisted of shingles torn from a few homes on Maple Avenue and South Klein Avenue. A few trees were snapped as far east as Amelia Park Drive and Mount Holly Road.
June 2019Flash FloodBlairsville$8,000Three vehicles were stuck and abandoned due to high water along the 900 block of State Route 749.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBlairsville$2,000A few trees were reported down in the area including along 9 Mile Road due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBlairsville$1,000A tree was downed along State Route 749 north of U.S. Route 52.
May 2022FloodBlairsville-Shallow water was flowing across State Route 749.
August 2016Flash FloodBlairsville-High water was reported rushing over Grays Lane near New Richmond.
August 2016Flash FloodBlairsville-Numerous reports of high water were still being reported from Pierce Township through the Amelia area.

Every storm recorded in Clermont 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
New Palestine1.2 miles21
Spann (historical)2.1 miles21
Locust Corner2.4 miles21
Home (historical)2.5 miles21
New Richmond3.2 miles13
Ninemile3.2 miles21
Mount Pisgah3.3 miles12
Locust Lake3.9 miles19

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 BlairsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133553The 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 1060878. 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.