Martinsburg, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45741. It stands on Mud Fork. The Survey maps it on the Rutland quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1907 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 73 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
13 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.
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
20 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Martinsburg (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 30 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 6060 |
| 12 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5506 |
| 12 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15781 |
| 21 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15198 |
| 6 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4253 |
| 6 April 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4254 |
| 26 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4626 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 171 shownMuseums hold 171 specimens collected within 10 miles of Martinsburg (historical) between 1912 and 1970: 143 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Collector unspecified, D. Mote 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Bunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808) | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter |
| Heterakidae | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter | |
| Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923) | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter | |
![]() | Oesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 1890 | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter |
![]() | Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp |
![]() | Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township |
![]() | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp |
![]() | Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp |
![]() | Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
![]() | Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
All 171 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dexter | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Dyesville | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Buckhorn (historical) | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Carpenter | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Welsh | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Valley Ford | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Langsville | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Salem Center | 4.7 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1069859. 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.






















