Glenburg, Ohio

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.

1907 1986

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.

• 1907 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Evansport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

History of Defiance County, Ohio, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Glenburg (historical) in 2002, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Evansport
• Ney

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 197 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glenburg (historical) between 1860 and 1973: 197 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bays, J. (John), Condit, J. M. (John M.), DeRoth 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
	Gomphus graslinellus Walsh, 1862	1944	H. Price	Mason's Beach (gravel pit) Northeast of Farmer
	Gomphus spicatus Hagen, 1854	1945	H. Price	Krill's Lake
	Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Megascops asio naevius	1891	J. O. Snyder	unspecified
	Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1892	J. O. Snyder	unspecified
	Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	J. O. Snyder	unspecified
	Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	J. O. Snyder	unspecified
	Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin Rver, Brunersburg, Ohio
	Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin River, Brunnersburg, Ohio
	Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1906	Sterki, Victor	Defiance
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1906	Sterki, Victor	Defiance(2 mi N)

All 197 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055122. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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