BlockLeonardsburg, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43015. The Survey maps it on the Kilbourne quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1966The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed 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.
- 1915 USGS Marengo quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Marengo quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kilbourne quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
11,966 words on this townshipHistory of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Brown Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
ISEAEL POTTEK, farmer ; P. 0. Leonardsburg. One among the prominent farmers in the township is Mr. Potter, born Sept. 29, 1806, third child of a family of eight born to Asahel Potter, born 1Y76, whose wife was Annie Benton ; both natives of Connecticut, where they married and moved to Chenango; N. Y., where Israel was born, and in the year 1817 emigrated to this State with his parents. They stopped nearly one year in Fairfield Co., and the following year came to Franklin Co., near Worthington, and after three years' residence came to Delaware (now Morrow), settled permanently and was among the pioneers of that locality. Israel received his scholastic education in a log school-house, with .slab benches ; his father died in 1870; in this county ; Israel's grandfather was a soldier in the French and Indian wars, also the Revolution ; his' powder horn is now in Israel's possession, inscribed, "Crown Point, July, 1762." Israel remained with his parents until he attained his 35th year ; his early life was engaged mostly in trading, and handling stock was his favorite of -all pursuits ; he made sixteen trips to Michigan while engaged in this business ; was at Adrian when the first locomotive came in, in 1841 ; in his 36th year was married to Phoebe Gr. Whipple, born in 1822, in Morrow Co. After marriage, he located in Oxford Township ; after a residence of several years came to Leonardsburg in 1851, and has since made it his abode, and has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He began poor, has taught school at 33 cents per day, and from this small beginning he has arisen to his present position, and the owner of 600 acres of land ; he started in life with the resolution that he would not squander his- "property by the use of whisky and " going bail." Has five children - Anna M., Eliza F., Mary C, CeKa (now Mrs. Rev. H. R. Smith, a representative from Noble Co.), and Herman (only son). Mr. Potter and wife are both members of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church, he having been identified with that body for twenty-nine years.
Passage source: History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, 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 Brown Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,593 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,593 specimens collected within 10 miles of Leonardsburg between 1837 and 1975: 2,342 Animalia, 135 Fungi, 101 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 5 Chromista, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, Adler, K. K. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein. | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Ohio |
 | Hypoxylon howeianum Peck | 1896 | A. P. Morgan | |
 | Hypoxylon illitum (Schwein.) M.A.Curtis | 1896 | A. P. Morgan | |
 | Agaricus velutipes Curtis | 1837 | J.R. Paddock | |
 | Polyporus versicolor (L.) Fr. | 1838 | not recorded | |
 | Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1850 | Kugel, B. (Burt) | near Selma, Ohio, USA |
 | Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | Ricke, A. S. | Carlisle, Ohio, USA |
 | Equisetum arvense L. | 1870 | Beardslee, H.C. | Moist soil. |
| Vernonia maxima Small | 1871 | Collector unspecified | Scioto | |
 | Centronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829) | 1872 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA |
 | Ophioglossum vulgatum L. | 1873 | Hussey, J. | |
 | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1874 | not recorded | Sugar Grove, Ohio, USA |
All 2,593 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Leonardsburg: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
8 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonardsburg in 8 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardsburg | $10,000 | Several trees and power poles were downed along Horseshoe Road. A tin garage roof was removed from a residence near the intersection of Horseshoe Road and Bishop Road. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardsburg | $5,000 | Numerous trees were reported knocked down. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardsburg | $3,000 | Numerous large trees and limbs were downed along a portion of Cackler Road. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardsburg | $3,000 | Several large trees were downed along Leonardsburg Road. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardsburg | $2,000 | A few trees were downed on Harris Road near State Route 521. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardsburg | $1,000 | One tree was downed near the intersection of Hanover Road and Horseshoe Road. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardsburg | $250 | A few small tree limbs were knocked down. |
| November 2017 | Flood | Leonardsburg | - | State Route 521 was closed near Harris Road due to high water. Numerous other roads throughout Delaware County also remained closed due to lingering high water. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kilbourne | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Paget | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Ashley | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Windsor Corners | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Kensington Place | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Oakdale | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Troyton | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Shelbourne Forest | 5.4 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064986. 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.
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.