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

Leistville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Saltcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43113. The Survey maps it on the Stoutsville quadrangle.

Leistville within Pickaway County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Leistville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Leistville, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

2 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Leistville between 2007 and 2007, burning about 5 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 burning2

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
21 April 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 October 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,047 shown

Museums hold 1,047 specimens collected within 10 miles of Leistville between 1845 and 1975: 804 Animalia, 140 Fungi, 101 Plantae, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Bartley, F., Andy White., Arden R. Gaufin 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 Aecidium galii Pers.Aecidium galii Pers.1883Kellerman, W.A.Amanda
Specimen of Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.1883W. A. KellermanAmanda
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum dumosum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom1845L. L. Pontius3 mi E of Kingston.
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121876Jones, H. (Howard)Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr1880W. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Mearns, E.A.Circleville near Scioto River.
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1880Jones, H. (Howard)Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1882W. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Atrichum undulatum, not of this specimenAtrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Auricularia auricula, not of this specimenAuricularia auricula (L.) Underw.1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Bisporella pallescens, not of this specimenBisporella pallescens (Pers.) S.E.Carp. & Korf1882W. A. KellermanAmanda.

All 1,047 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2001

The National Weather Service names Leistville in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindLeistville$5,000Minor damage was reported to a house on Shoemaker Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLeistville$4,000Several trees were downed.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLeistville$3,000A portion of an outdoor walkway connecting buildings at Logan Elm High School was blown over.
May 2022FloodLeistville-High water was reported at Shoemaker Road and State Route 56.
May 2001Flash FloodLeistville-Hargus Creek flooded and out of its banks. The Court on the Creek trailer park was evacuated. Some low lying roads had high water.

Every storm recorded in Pickaway 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
Meade2.7 miles13
Whisler3.1 miles12
Thacher3.4 miles13
Huntsville3.7 miles12
Tarlton3.8 miles12
Stringtown3.9 miles12
Washington Meadows4.5 miles13
Hayesville5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062849. 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.