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

Feesburg, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45130. The Survey maps it on the Hamersville quadrangle. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Feesburg within Brown County

Then and now

1928 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Feesburg, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Feesburg, surveyed 1928

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 347 shown

Museums hold 347 specimens collected within 10 miles of Feesburg between 1886 and 1974: 270 Animalia, 66 Fungi, 11 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. Braun, Ahles, H.E. 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 Hirneola auricularis (Gray) DonkHirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk1903Blickle, A.H.Brown County, Ohio
Specimen of Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)1929A. Braun[Not Stated]
Specimen of Fomes conchatus (Pers.) GilletFomes conchatus (Pers.) Gillet1934Kaps, C.Locust Ridge
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Equisetum hyemale, not of this specimenEquisetum hyemale L.1897Kreke, Fr. M.Arnheim
A photograph of the species Panus stipticus, not of this specimenPanus stipticus (Bull.) Fr.1903Lyon, C. D.Higginsport
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1907Berry M. D.?Georgetown
A photograph of the species Perenniporia robiniophila, not of this specimenPerenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden1909J. P. Tracy
Secotium agaricoides (Czern.) Hollós1913Lyon C. D.Georgetown
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)White Oak Creek tributary, within Brown Co, Brown County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum nigrum Rafinesque, 18201928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)White Oak Creek tributary, within Brown Co, Brown County, township n/a
Hypnales1928Fulford, Margaret Hannahroad from Williamsburg to Bethel

All 347 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Feesburg: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown County Engineer Lms. QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
White Oak Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Georgetown Pit Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Georgetown Pit Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ruggles Stone Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ruggles Stone Company Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms nearby

5 since 2003

The National Weather Service names Feesburg in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
July 2023Flash FloodFeesburg$5,000A person was rescued from a vehicle that was stranded in rising water on Eden Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFeesburg$3,000Trees were downed along Eden Road due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFeesburg$3,000Trees were knocked down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindFeesburg$3,000Several trees and powerlines were knocked down.
July 2006Flash FloodFeesburg-The intersection of State Routes 505 and 756 was flooded and closed.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Maple2.6 miles12
North Feesburg (historical)2.6 miles10
Hamersville2.8 miles10
Sunshine (historical)4.3 miles10
Yankeetown4.4 miles12
White Oak Valley4.8 miles10
Georgetown5.1 miles12
Wahlsburg5.6 miles10

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 FeesburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5441465The 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 1064646. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.