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

Middleburg, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43903. It stands on Red Dog Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Amsterdam quadrangle.

Middleburg within Jefferson County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

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 Middleburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Middleburg, surveyed 1901

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.

Fires nearby

12 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Middleburg between 2003 and 2018, burning about 20 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
5 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources721
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12909
14 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8205
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12912
12 April 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13765
30 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 370 shown

Museums hold 370 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middleburg between 1896 and 1974: 322 Animalia, 42 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Xylaria cubensis, not of this specimenXylaria cubensis (Mont.) Fr.1924Leonard E. C.Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & assistantCross Creek, trib of the Ohio River at Broadacre, Wayne Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & assistantCross Creek, trib of the Ohio River at Broadacre, Wayne Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & assistantCross Creek, trib of the Ohio River at Broadacre, Wayne Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & assistantCross Creek, trib of the Ohio River at Broadacre, Wayne Twp.

All 370 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
Wolf Run1.0 miles16
East Springfield1.1 miles17
Circle Green2.1 miles16
Amsterdam2.6 miles16
The Eastern3.0 miles16
Annapolis3.1 miles17
Fairfield3.6 miles17
Shane4.3 miles17

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 MiddleburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28913504The 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 1048973. 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.