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Lombardsville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45652. It stands on Saw Pit Run. The Survey maps it on the Otway quadrangle.

Lombardsville within Scioto County

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lombardsville, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Lombardsville, surveyed 1915

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.

In the 1903 county history

3,621 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 3,621 words.

Fires nearby

37 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Lombardsville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,322 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2002Natural60 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR LUMBER
2 May 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4247
3 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15574

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,557 shown

Museums hold 1,557 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lombardsville between 1884 and 1975: 1,416 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 48 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Braun, Anson A. Hinkley 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 Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884H. MoresScioto River
Specimen of Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 18291896not recordedScioto River
Specimen of Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897F.L. StevensAlum Rock
A photograph of the species Campeloma Rafinesque, not of this specimenCampeloma Rafinesque, 18191885Ch. R. OrcuttScioto River
A photograph of the species Puccinia recondita, not of this specimenPuccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.1889Craig M.Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
A photograph of the species Myelochroa galbina, not of this specimenMyelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale1893Jones, T.H.BOtway
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
Specimen of Peronospora polygoni Halst.Peronospora polygoni Halst.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sympetrum Newman, not of this specimenSympetrum Newman, 18331897J. HinePortsmouth
A photograph of the species Sympetrum obtrusum, not of this specimenSympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)1897J. HinePortsmouth

All 1,557 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lombardsville: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Taylor Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Waller Brothers Stone QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Taylor Stone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Waller Bros QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Waller Brothers Stone CompanyFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms nearby

1 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Lombardsville in 1 storm report between 1996 and 1996: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996Thunderstorm WindLombardsville$4,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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
Henley2.1 miles12
Arion2.3 miles13
McDermott3.7 miles13
Otway4.3 miles12
Crabtree5.2 miles12
Owensville5.3 miles13
Rushtown6.0 miles13
Dry Run6.3 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on LombardsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698483The 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 1061438. 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.

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.