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Lueneburg, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Freedom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43545. The Survey maps it on the Napoleon West quadrangle.

Lueneburg within Henry County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

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 Lueneburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lueneburg, surveyed 1908

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.

Fires nearby

5 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lueneburg between 2020 and 2020, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15834
6 July 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15775
10 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15734
20 October 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15860
16 October 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15853

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 63 shown

Museums hold 63 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lueneburg between 1898 and 1973: 54 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 3 Plantae, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Dabney Hart, F.S. Badger, G.Y. Belyea 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 Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.1919W.G. StoverLiberty Center
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spinosus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spinosus Selys, 18541898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spoliatus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Libellula luctuosa, not of this specimenLibellula luctuosa Burmeister, 18391898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Perithemis tenera, not of this specimenPerithemis tenera (Say, 1840)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Liberty Center
Helminthosporium gramineum Rabenh. ex Schltdl.1919Lewis H. L.Ridgeville Corners
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Lewis H. L.Napoleon
A photograph of the species Roccus chrysops, not of this specimenRoccus chrysops (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Maumee River, within Henry Co, Henry County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Murphy, M KJunction Maumee River and Miami-Erie Canal, Washington township
A photograph of the species Pomoxis annularis, not of this specimenPomoxis annularis Rafinesque, 18181931Murphy, M KJunction of Maumee River and Miami-Erie Canal, Washington township
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631932not recorded

All 63 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lueneburg: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Own Crews QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Napoleon Brick & Tile WorksClayPlant
Napoleon Brick and Tile PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Gerald1.5 miles11
Naomi2.5 miles11
Bostelmans Corners2.8 miles11
Glenwood Estates3.9 miles11
Valleybrook Estates4.4 miles11
Ridgeville Corners4.7 miles12
Napoleon5.1 miles11
Cloverleaf (historical)5.2 miles12

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 Q122570377The 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 1806406. 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.