Lebanon, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Bethel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45745. The Survey maps it on the Dalzell quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1903 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
8 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lebanon between 2013 and 2018, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LAMPING FIRE |
| 9 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 890 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 642 |
| 22 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 768 |
| 10 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2463 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 67 shownMuseums hold 67 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lebanon between 1853 and 1975: 61 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 2 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Wood & Tilley, S. G., Albert Hazen Wright, Archer, W. A. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
| Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta | |
![]() | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | David M. Dennis | 3 mi. N Graysville |
![]() | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | 1883 | Albert Hazen Wright | Marietta |
![]() | Arenaria serpyllifolia L. | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry. |
![]() | Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry. |
| Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd. | 1928 | Archer, W. A. | Greenbrier | |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township |
All 67 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2025The National Weather Service names Lebanon in 1 storm report between 2025 and 2025: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lebanon | $1,000 | A tree was reported down across Township Road 340. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Keys (historical) | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Marr | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Quarry (historical) | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Sycamore Valley | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Graham | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Way | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Sprague | 5.7 miles | 17 | |
| Cline | 6.0 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076227. 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.
























