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

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.

Claiborne within Union County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The 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 sheet of Claiborne, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Claiborne, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 307 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581880not recordedMarysville, Union, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Haliaeetus leucocephalus, not of this specimenHaliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766)1881not recordedPleasant Valley, Union, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1892E E BogueProspect
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1894Mrs. Smyth
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ã…ngstr.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Tetraphis pellucida, not of this specimenTetraphis pellucida Hedw.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Thelia asprella, not of this specimenThelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull.1894Mrs. Smyth
Uredo1897W. A. Kellerman
Uromyces plumbarius Peck1897W. A. Kellerman
unnamed1914not recorded
Erasmoneura nigra (Gillette, 1898)1914H.T. Osborn
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919MCFARLAND F. T.Prospect

All 307 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2020

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindClaiborne$1,000A tree was knocked down and a power pole was snapped along Bethlehem-Claibourne Road.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Summersville3.4 miles12
Pharisburg3.8 miles13
Richwood3.8 miles11
Taylor Centre (historical)3.9 miles14
Broadway4.7 miles14
Tawa Estates4.9 miles11
Magnetic Springs5.3 miles13
York Center5.7 miles12

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 ClaiborneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5125073The 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.