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

Leonardsburg, 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.

Leonardsburg within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The 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 sheet of Leonardsburg, surveyed 1966

Topographic sheet of Leonardsburg, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,593 shown

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.

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 nearby

1 within 5 miles

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

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms nearby

8 since 2015

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.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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.

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.