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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.

Lumberton within Clinton County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Lumberton, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lumberton, surveyed 1917

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 county-history sources

6,314 words on this township

The 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 2009

Regional 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 burning1

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
21 February 2009Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 158 shown

Regional 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Pseudosuccinea columella, not of this specimenPseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)1911not recordedClinton, North America
A photograph of the species Claviceps purpurea, not of this specimenClaviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.1919Lewis H. L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Corydalus cornutus, not of this specimenCorydalus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758)1920E. C. StinsonHarveysburg
A photograph of the species Cladonia fimbriata, not of this specimenCladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.J.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Parmelia Acharius, not of this specimenParmelia Acharius, 18031924Taylor, L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1924Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Etheostoma variatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma variatum Kirtland, 18401926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Hazard, F. O.near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma jeffersonianum, not of this specimenAmbystoma jeffersonianum (Green, 1827)1929Hazard, F. O.Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma texanum, not of this specimenAmbystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)1929Hazard, F. O.near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Hazard, F. O.Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio

All 158 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Flash FloodLumberton$20,000High water caused a partial road collapse near Bailey and Gano Roads.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLumberton$4,000Two trees and numerous large limbs were downed along US Route 68.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLumberton$3,000Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLumberton$2,000A tree and some large limbs were knocked down.
June 2008Flash FloodLumberton$1,000Gurneyville Road was flooded.
March 2026FloodLumberton-High water was reported over Port William-Lumberton Road in between Bone Road and Faulkner Road.
May 2013Heavy RainLumberton-Minor flooding was reported along Highway 68 in northern Clinton County due to heavy rainfall.
July 2023HailLumberton-no account filed
April 2006HailLumberton-no account filed
May 2001HailLumberton-no account filed
June 1995HailLumberton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Ogles (historical)1.5 miles12
Mount Pleasant1.6 miles12
McKays1.9 miles15
Gurneyville3.3 miles15
Port William3.3 miles12
Little Center5.3 miles14
North Kingman5.9 miles15
Oakland6.1 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 LumbertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18350821The 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.