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Hepburn, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dudley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43326. It stands on Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Rue quadrangle.

Hepburn within Hardin County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hepburn, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hepburn, surveyed 1915

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.

In the 1883 county history

35,913 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Dudley Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Dudley Township - 35,913 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hepburn between 2002 and 2002, burning about 1 acres 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.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 July 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 70 shown

Museums hold 70 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hepburn between 1882 and 1966: 51 Animalia, 19 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W SHARER, Angle, E. (Eric), Anson A. Hinkley 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 Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) CookePoria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke1906Penfield, O.; C. B. WilsonRidgeway
Specimen of Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.1923W.G. StoverKenton
Specimen of Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1939J. PeltonPond near Kenton
A photograph of the species Meleagris gallopavo, not of this specimenMeleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 18171882W.C. HamptonMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis var. phlei-pratensis (Erikss. & Henn.) Stakman & Piem.1908Clinton; BirdMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Guignardia bidwellii, not of this specimenGuignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1910Heckathorne H. E.Kenton
A photograph of the species Laestadia bidwellii, not of this specimenLaestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1910Heckathorne H. E.Kenton
A photograph of the species Puccinia asterum, not of this specimenPuccinia asterum (Schwein.) F.Kern1913Bartholomew E.Kenton
A photograph of the species Puccinia caricis-solidaginis, not of this specimenPuccinia caricis-solidaginis Arthur1913E. BartholomewKenton
A photograph of the species Puccinia dioicae, not of this specimenPuccinia dioicae Magnus1913Bartholomew, Elam TKenton
A photograph of the species Puccinia extensicola, not of this specimenPuccinia extensicola Plowr.1913E. BartholomewKenton.
Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1914Anson A. HinkleyScioto River, Kenton, near headwaters, North America

All 70 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Hepburn in 1 storm report between 2013 and 2013: 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindHepburn$200,000On County Road 235, a garage was destroyed and the adjacent house suffered damage as well with the chimney destroyed, windows broken, and some damage to the exterior of the house due to thunderstorm winds. On County Road 265, one third of a hog barn roof was removed and a machine shop was destroyed. Trees were blown down, and damage occurred to several other properties along County Road 265.

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Pfeiffer1.5 miles10
Browns Crossroads3.2 miles11
Otterbein3.2 miles11
Marshs (historical)4.6 miles10
Mentzer6.2 miles11
Mount Victory6.6 miles11
Grassy Point7.6 miles11
Kenton7.6 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 HepburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474457The 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 1048832. 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.

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.