Lumberton, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45177. The Survey maps it on the Port William quadrangle.
Then and now
1917 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 69 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
12 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.
- 1917 USGS Xenia quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Xenia quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Port William quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Port William quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Port William quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
6,314 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Liberty Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lumberton between 2009 and 2009, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 158 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 158 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lumberton between 1911 and 1970: 148 Animalia, 7 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr. | 1923 | Taylor, C.L. | Wilmington |
![]() | Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817) | 1911 | not recorded | Clinton, North America |
![]() | Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul. | 1919 | Lewis H. L. | Wilmington |
![]() | Corydalus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1920 | E. C. Stinson | Harveysburg |
![]() | Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. | 1923 | Taylor, C.J. | Wilmington |
![]() | Parmelia Acharius, 1803 | 1924 | Taylor, L. | Wilmington |
![]() | Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf | 1924 | Taylor, C.L. | Wilmington |
![]() | Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1926 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map |
![]() | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1929 | Hazard, F. O. | near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio |
![]() | Ambystoma jeffersonianum (Green, 1827) | 1929 | Hazard, F. O. | Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio |
![]() | Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855) | 1929 | Hazard, F. O. | near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio |
![]() | Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882 | 1929 | Hazard, F. O. | Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio |
All 158 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lumberton in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Flash Flood | Lumberton | $20,000 | High water caused a partial road collapse near Bailey and Gano Roads. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | $4,000 | Two trees and numerous large limbs were downed along US Route 68. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | $3,000 | Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | $2,000 | A tree and some large limbs were knocked down. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Lumberton | $1,000 | Gurneyville Road was flooded. |
| March 2026 | Flood | Lumberton | - | High water was reported over Port William-Lumberton Road in between Bone Road and Faulkner Road. |
| May 2013 | Heavy Rain | Lumberton | - | Minor flooding was reported along Highway 68 in northern Clinton County due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Lumberton | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lumberton | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Lumberton | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Lumberton | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ogles (historical) | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Pleasant | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| McKays | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Gurneyville | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Port William | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Little Center | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| North Kingman | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Oakland | 6.1 miles | 13 |
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 Lumberton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18350821 | 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 1042834. 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.
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.























