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Huntsburg, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Huntsburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44062. The Survey maps it on the East Claridon quadrangle. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chardon quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS East Claridon quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS East Claridon quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS East Claridon quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS East Claridon quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
12,305 words on this townshipPioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Huntsburg Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
This township is probably laid out the best of any in the county, as to roads. It being five miles square, it is, therefore, laid out into square miles ; and, consequently, there is a road around every square mile, with only a few exceptions, making it very convenient for small farms. It was an original idea with Lewis Hunt, son of the purchaser (who afterwards settled in Huntsburg), to have each settler take up only fifty acres of land, which whould make him a farm of fifty rods wide by one hundred and sixty rods long. This regulation was at first very well kept, but afterwards the rule was broken over, and large farms became the order of the day.
Passage source: Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880.
The soil of Huntsburg, for the most part, is clay, except in the southwestern part, where it is somewhat gravelly, or of a sandy loam, and better fitted for ploughing, than for grazing. This tract, now known as Huntsburg, was, at first, very heavily timbered, consisting of beach and maple; also, large quantities of saw timber, - immense poplars (or what is commonly called Whitewood); also, cucumber, ash, chestnut, and some cherry, and black walnut. Very many of those large whitewoods have been burnt up, to get them out of the w^ay, which, at the present day, would be worth fifty dollars apiece.
Passage source: Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880.
The first person ever known to have taken his abode in the township 'of Huntsburg, in 1-802, was a man by the name of John Finley. He was a hermit, and was found living in a hut, near a stream of water, which was afterwards called Finley's creek. Of the history of this strange man, but little is known, as he was not very communicative with the early settlers. He came from the State of Maryland, and was supposed to be thoroughly educated.
Passage source: Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880.
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 Huntsburg Township - it names this place 44 more 44 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 691 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 691 specimens collected within 10 miles of Huntsburg between 1887 and 1975: 583 Animalia, 101 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Rood, A.E. Daugherty, Andre F. Clewell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Riparia riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1891 | Fred Haggart | |
 | Medeola virginiana L. | 1895 | Watson,J.R. s.n. [1895-06-30] | [label: Herbarium of J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Geauga Co. [County] |
 | Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort. | 1896 | Edo N. Claassen | Thompson Ledges |
 | Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray | 1887 | Leonard, F.E. | Munson |
 | Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790) | 1889 | Collector(s): F. S. Haggart | No specific locality recorded. |
 | Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt. | 1890 | M. Rodman | Sugar Grove. |
 | Cypripedium reginae Walter | 1896 | J. R. Watson | Geauga |
 | Stachys cordata Riddell | 1896 | Guttenberg, G. | Burton |
 | Sarracenia purpurea L. | 1897 | J. R. Watson | Geauga |
 | Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray | 1901 | Lewis Sylvester Hopkins | Ohio, Middlefield |
 | Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw. | 1906 | L. S. Hopkins | Middlefield |
 | Acronicta dactylina Grote, 1874 | 1908 | Teraguchi, S. (Sonja) | OH Geauga Co. Troy Twp. Snow Lake |
All 691 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntsburg in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Lightning | Huntsburg | $100,000 | Lightning struck a barn two miles north of Huntsburg. The resulting fire destroyed the barn and several cattle and approximately 50 pigs perished. |
| September 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Huntsburg | $75,000 | An EF0 tornado touched down in rural Geauga County approximately three miles north of Middlefield. The initial touchdown occurred just east of the intersection of Burton Windsor and Durkee Roads in Huntsburg Township. Trees and large limbs were snapped in the area. The tornado then continued south southeast and briefly strengthened to EF1 intensity as it crossed State Route 528 south of Nauvoo Road. A building under construction along State Route 528 was heavily damaged. The tornado then quickly weakened to EF0 intensity and dissipated as it approached State Route 87 about a half mile east of State Route 528. The tornado appeared to be on the ground intermittently with downed trees and snapped limbs the main damage indicator. The tornado track was just over three miles in length and was no more than 25 yards in width. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsburg | $3,000 | Sheriff reported trees down from thunderstorm winds just north of Huntsburg. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntsburg | $2,000 | A tree and several large limbs were reported down. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Huntsburg | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beardsley (historical) | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Barnes Corners | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| East Claridon | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Burton Station | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Claridon | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Center Road (historical) | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Montville | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Middlefield | 5.2 miles | 13 |
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 Huntsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22695649 | 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 1085178. 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.