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Bursville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45882. The Survey maps it on the Rockford quadrangle.

Bursville within Mercer County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bursville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bursville, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the 1907 county history

858 words on this township

The county history of 1907 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Liberty Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Liberty Township - 858 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 198 shown

Museums hold 198 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bursville between 1840 and 1973: 196 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by . R. Slonakerj, Adler, K. K., Brown, H P 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 Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1920R. RhoadesSt. Marys Lake at Celina
Specimen of Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842)Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842)1942H. PriceSt. Mary's River
Specimen of Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890Lestes dryas Kirby, 18901942H. PriceSt. Mary's River
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1840J. Wolle, D. Blum
A photograph of the species Ardea alba, not of this specimenArdea alba egretta Gmelin, 17891888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus (Linnaeus, 1758)1888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Ceryle alcyon, not of this specimenCeryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-19941888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Charadrius vociferus, not of this specimenCharadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 17581888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Cistothorus palustris, not of this specimenCistothorus palustris dissaeptus Bangs, 19021888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Gallinago gallinago, not of this specimenGallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)1888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Porzana carolina, not of this specimenPorzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1888J.R.S.Celina
A photograph of the species Tringa flavipes, not of this specimenTringa flavipes (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888J. R. SlonakerCelina

All 198 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Brehm (historical)1.0 miles13
Hinton1.4 miles13
Chattanooga3.1 miles13
Striptown (historical)3.2 miles13
Scudder3.7 miles13
Durbin4.7 miles13
Shively4.7 miles13
Skeels Crossroads4.7 miles13

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 Q122548613The 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 1038552. 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.