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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Meadows of North Lewisburg, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Rush Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43060. The Survey maps it on the North Lewisburg quadrangle.

Meadows of North Lewisburg within Champaign County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

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 Meadows of North Lewisburg, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Meadows of North Lewisburg, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

4 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Meadows of North Lewisburg between 2002 and 2002, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2002Other causes1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 March 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 March 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Champaign County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 281 shown

Museums hold 281 specimens collected within 10 miles of Meadows of North Lewisburg between 1902 and 1975: 236 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 17 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. White (Ohio State Univ.), Acker, G. 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 Aecidium ranunculi Schwein.Aecidium ranunculi Schwein.1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
Specimen of Cintractia junci (Schwein.) Trel.Cintractia junci (Schwein.) Trel.1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
Specimen of Frommea obtusa (F.Strauss) ArthurFrommea obtusa (F.Strauss) Arthur1902J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler
A photograph of the species Phragmidium potentillae, not of this specimenPhragmidium potentillae (Pers.) P.Karst.1902J. H. Schaffner & F. J. TylerBrush Lake
A photograph of the species Puccinia eatoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia eatoniae Arthur1902J. H. Schaffner; F. J. TylerBrush Lake
Puccinia minutissima Arthur1902J. H. Schaffner; F. J. TylerBrush Lake
Puccinia myosotidis Tranzschel1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
Puccinia nesaeae (W.R.Gerard) Ellis & Everh.1902J. H. Schaffner & F. J. TylerBrush Lake
Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.1902J. H. Schaffner & F. J. TylerBrush Lake
A photograph of the species Macrosporium catalpae, not of this specimenMacrosporium catalpae Ellis & G.Martin1908Rogers H. C.Mechanicsburg
Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.1918Wing Seed Co.?Mechanicsburg
A photograph of the species Gibberella saubinetii, not of this specimenGibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1922Selby A. D.; Selby LinvilleMechanicsburg

All 281 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
North Lewisburg0.9 miles13
Middletown3.1 miles13
Brush Lake (historical)3.2 miles13
Fountain Park3.4 miles13
Woodstock3.5 miles13
Mingo3.7 miles13
Cable4.3 miles13
Crimville (historical)5.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122572052The 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 2630817. 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.