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

Hartsburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45831. The Survey maps it on the Continental quadrangle.

Hartsburg within Putnam County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hartsburg, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Hartsburg, surveyed 1909

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 county-history sources

902 words on this township

History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Continental is the chief town in Monroe township, but its history and growth will be dealt with in another chapter. Lying due west of Continental three miles on the Nickel Plate railroad is a small hamlet which needs honorable mention. This aforesaid town is Hartsburg. The date of the platting of this village, if it was ever platted, cannot be ascertained. At present Hartsburg has one church and a school building. It is a stop on the Nickel Plate railroad.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Monroe Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 58 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hartsburg between 1893 and 1956: 58 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by P. Kirsch, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, R. Rhoades & C. Clark 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Lampsilis ventricosa (Barnes, 1823)	1893	not recorded	Blanchard River
Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)	1893	not recorded	Cloverdale, Auglaize River
Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
Noturus flavus Rafinesque, 1818	1893	P. Kirsch	Auglaize River, Cloverdale, Ohio
Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1940	Rhoades, R. (Randall)	Little Auglaize River, within Paulding Co, Paulding County, township n/a
Orconectes immunis (Hagen, 1870)	1940	R. Rhoades & C. Clark	Little Auglaize River, 2 miles South of Mandale
Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1940	R. Rhoades & C. Clark	Little Auglaize River, 2 mi. S. of Mandale
Campostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)	1941	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wascko, H. L. (Harold L.)	Auglaize River, Sec 21 of Perry township, ~1.1 mi E of Cloverdale, Perry township
Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758	1941	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wascko, H. L. (Harold L.)	Auglaize River, Sec 21 of Perry township, ~1.1 mi E of Cloverdale, Perry township

All 58 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hartsburg: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Glandorf Tile Co Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dupont	2.7 miles	12
Continental	3.1 miles	12
Franconia (historical)	3.7 miles	12
Rice	4.3 miles	12
East Mandale	4.8 miles	12
Cloverdale	5.1 miles	12
Wisterman	5.1 miles	11
Hector	5.2 miles	11

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 Hartsburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133805	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 1056316. 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.