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Madisonburg, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wooster City. It lies in ZIP code area 44691. The Survey maps it on the Wooster quadrangle.

Madisonburg within Wayne County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Madisonburg, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Madisonburg, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

9 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Madisonburg between 2002 and 2002, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 August 2002Recreation and ceremony25 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 May 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 April 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 March 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,388 shown

Museums hold 2,388 specimens collected within 10 miles of Madisonburg between 1877 and 1975: 1,967 Animalia, 226 Plantae, 154 Fungi, 40 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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 Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)1930B. Montgomery & J. Houser2 miles northeast of Wooster
A photograph of the species Aster ciliolatus, not of this specimenAster ciliolatus Lindl.1877Thorne, B.H.Station Farm, Wooster
A photograph of the species Chelidon Forster, not of this specimenChelidon Forster, 18171889Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Catharus guttatus, not of this specimenCatharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Certhia americana, not of this specimenCerthia americana americana Bonaparte, 18381890Harry C. OberholserWooster
Corthylio calendula calendula1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 19211890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Dryobates pubescens, not of this specimenDryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster

All 2,388 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 Madisonburg: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Wayne County Hwy Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jones Limestone Company PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rodco MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms nearby

2 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Madisonburg in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Madisonburg$60,000EF0 tornado was confirmed by NWS storm survey. The tornado followed an intermittent path approximately 4 miles long just west of Smithville. Over two dozen trees were snapped along the path of the storm. The tornado destroyed a garden shed on Honeytown Road, causing damage to several trees and scattering debris up to a mile away. The tornado left a well defined path through an adjacent potato field.
May 2025HailMadisonburg-Hail up to half dollar-size about four-miles northwest of Smithville.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Melrose Village0.6 miles17
Spruce Tree Village1.0 miles17
Deer Creek1.4 miles17
Meadow Brook1.4 miles17
Forest Creek1.9 miles17
Boys Village2.2 miles17
Christmas Run2.4 miles17
Highland Park2.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061461. 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.