Claiborne, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Claibourne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43344. The Survey maps it on the Richwood quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1913 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 79 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
11 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.
- 1913 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 307 shownMuseums hold 307 specimens collected within 10 miles of Claiborne between 1880 and 1975: 292 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B., D. & B., D., B., D. & K., D., Baumgartner, L. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758 | 1880 | not recorded | Marysville, Union, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1881 | not recorded | Pleasant Valley, Union, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Galium circaezans Michx. | 1892 | E E Bogue | Prospect |
| Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1894 | Mrs. Smyth | ||
![]() | Leucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ã…ngstr. | 1894 | not recorded | |
![]() | Tetraphis pellucida Hedw. | 1894 | not recorded | |
![]() | Thelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull. | 1894 | Mrs. Smyth | |
| Uredo | 1897 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
| Uromyces plumbarius Peck | 1897 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
| unnamed | 1914 | not recorded | ||
| Erasmoneura nigra (Gillette, 1898) | 1914 | H.T. Osborn | ||
![]() | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | MCFARLAND F. T. | Prospect |
All 307 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2020The National Weather Service names Claiborne in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claiborne | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down and a power pole was snapped along Bethlehem-Claibourne Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summersville | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Pharisburg | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Richwood | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Taylor Centre (historical) | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Broadway | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Tawa Estates | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Magnetic Springs | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| York Center | 5.7 miles | 12 |
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 Claiborne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5125073 | The 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 1060971. 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.

















