Linworth, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Columbus City. It lies in ZIP code area 43085. It stands on Rush Run. The Survey maps it on the Northwest Columbus quadrangle.
Then and now
1901 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 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.
- 1901 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Northwest Columbus quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Columbus city, in the words of 1858.
Beginnings Of Ohio
The Mound Builders and Indians - First White Settlements and Struggle for Possession - Indian Village at the Forks of the Scioto Attacked by Crawford and Dispersed - The Ohio Company, the Scioto Company and Symmes Purchase - Indian Power Broken and British Hopes Blasted - First Surveys - Topography, Geology and Soil of Franklin County.
In the 1858 county history
895,918 words on this townshipThe county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Columbus City covers the township.
Read the chapter on Columbus City - 895,918 words.
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 10,052 shownMuseums hold 10,052 specimens collected within 10 miles of Linworth between 1804 and 1975: 8,076 Animalia, 1,266 Fungi, 562 Plantae, 117 Chromista, 30 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 19 V 1938 in original publication, Knull, =, ? 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De Toni | 1900 | Tyler, F.J.; O. E. Jennings | Columbus |
![]() | Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana | 1804 | Dr. Paddock | Worthington |
![]() | Platanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl. | 1805 | J. R. Paddock | Worthington |
![]() | Carex comosa Boott | 1809 | Collector unknown | Worthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.] |
![]() | Hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 | 1814 | not recorded | Columbus Ohio, Franklin, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Callimome strobiloides Huber, 1927 | 1821 | C. Huber | Columbus |
![]() | Solidago riddellii Frank | 1832 | W. A. Kellerman | A few miles N of Columbus. |
![]() | Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd. | 1834 | Anonymous | Columbus. |
![]() | Anomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor | 1837 | W. S. Sullivant | Near Columbus |
![]() | Acris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 1947 | 1897 | not recorded | No Further Locality Data |
| Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1897 | Clevenger, J. F. | Columbus | |
![]() | Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1897 | United States Bureau of Fisheries, R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Ohio, Scioto River, Franklin County |
All 10,052 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2020The National Weather Service names Linworth in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linworth | $10,000 | Linworth Road between Snouffer Rd and OH-161 and OH-161 between Linworth Road and Olentangy River Road were closed due to trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverlea | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Worthington | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Olentangy | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Worthington Hills | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Northwoods | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Air | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Olentangy High Bluffs | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Flint | 3.4 miles | 16 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122546040 | 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 1060071. 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.



























