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Middlebourne, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Oxford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43773. The Survey maps it on the Antrim quadrangle.

Middlebourne within Guernsey County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Middlebourne, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Middlebourne, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1911 county history

2,329 words on this township

The county history of 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Oxford Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Oxford Township - 2,329 words.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Bridge, Middlebourne, Guernsey County, OH
Bridge, Middlebourne, Guernsey County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

18 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Middlebourne between 2003 and 2019, burning about 20 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
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
16 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1862
9 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15193
9 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1212
9 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7826

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 130 shown

Museums hold 130 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middlebourne between 1912 and 1975: 91 Animalia, 34 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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 Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 18211916not recorded
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916not recorded
A photograph of the species Taphrina caerulescens, not of this specimenTaphrina caerulescens (Desm. & Mont.) Tul.1912Bartenstein T. E.Warrentown
A photograph of the species Isoetes muricata, not of this specimenIsoetes muricata Durieu1913L. S. Hazel M, D.D. HopkinsBrady's Lake.
A photograph of the species Cuclotogaster heterographus, not of this specimenCuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Goniodes Nitzsch, not of this specimenGoniodes Nitzsch, 18181916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Haematopinus suis, not of this specimenHaematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Polyporus caesius, not of this specimenPolyporus caesius (Schrad.) Fr.1923Nicholson LawrenceVermilion River, 1.5 Mi. S. of Birmingham, Erie Co. Frondose Woods along
A photograph of the species Stereum rameale, not of this specimenStereum rameale (Pers.) Burt1923Grover F. O.Vermilion River, 1.5 Mi. S. of Birmingham, Erie Co. in Woods along
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1925CL & LC HubbsTrib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system

All 130 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Middlebourne: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Guernsey County

Storms nearby

7 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Middlebourne in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindMiddlebourne$75,000Law enforcement reported numerous trees down throughout Guernsey county.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMiddlebourne$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindMiddlebourne$1,000Law enforcement reported trees down in Middlebourne.
January 2024FloodMiddlebourne-All lanes were closed along State Route 513 at Oxford Road due to flooding.
April 2024FloodMiddlebourne-State Route 513 closed due to flooding along Salt Fork.
April 2024Flash FloodMiddlebourne-State Route 513 closed due to flooding.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMiddlebourne-A tree down on Rosedale Road.

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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
Elizabethtown3.9 miles17
Antrim4.9 miles16
Easton5.0 miles17
Salesville5.4 miles12
Winterset5.6 miles17
Old Washington5.8 miles17
Quaker City5.9 miles12
Gibson6.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061512. 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.