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Middleburg, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Zane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43319. The Survey maps it on the East Liberty quadrangle.

Middleburg within Logan County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 79 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 1992
Topographic sheet of Middleburg, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Middleburg between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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
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
23 March 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 683 shown

Museums hold 683 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middleburg between 1862 and 1975: 644 Animalia, 31 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. R. Gaufin, A. Spreitzer 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
A photograph of the species Carex buxbaumii, not of this specimenCarex buxbaumii Wahlenb.1862W. M. CanbyBelfontaine.
A photograph of the species Cypripedium reginae, not of this specimenCypripedium reginae Walter1900A. D. SelbyZanesfield
A photograph of the species Scirpus atrovirens, not of this specimenScirpus atrovirens Willd.1900Selby, A.D.Zanesfield
A photograph of the species Valerianella radiata, not of this specimenValerianella radiata (Willd.) Dufr.1900Selby, A.D.Zanesfield
A photograph of the species Rhytisma Fr., not of this specimenRhytisma Fr.1901W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Cercospora maianthemi, not of this specimenCercospora maianthemi Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Scolecotrichum graminis, not of this specimenScolecotrichum graminis Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
Scolicotrichum graminis Fuckel1902Kellerman, William AshbrookWest Mansfield
Paragordius varius (Leidy, 1851)1911F. DenmeadWest Liberty
Lethenteron appendix (DeKay, 1842)1922Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Mad River, at Ludlow Line bridge to 1/2 mile upstream, 5 miles SE of Bellefontaine OH, NW Monroe Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Mad River, within Logan County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Mad River, within Logan County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate

All 683 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Middleburg: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
East Liberty Plant #226Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
East Liberty QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms nearby

9 since 2005

The National Weather Service names Middleburg in 9 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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
May 2019Flash FloodMiddleburg$50,000State Route 559 was closed due to flooding between State Route 287 and Township Road 258.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMiddleburg$3,000A few trees were downed in Middleburg.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMiddleburg$3,000One tree and a couple large limbs were downed.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMiddleburg$1,000A tree was downed onto State Route 287.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMiddleburg$1,000Large trees were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindMiddleburg-Several homes had minor damage.
July 2023FloodMiddleburg-State Route 287 was closed near County Road 15 due to high water.
May 2019Flash FloodMiddleburg-State Route 287 was closed due to flooding between State Route 347 and Township Road 177.
April 2006HailMiddleburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
East Liberty2.7 miles14
Pickrelltown4.2 miles13
Valley Hi5.5 miles13
Royal Coach Estates5.5 miles13
North Greenfield5.9 miles13
Zanesfield5.9 miles13
New Jerusalem6.9 miles13
Macochee Castle7.5 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.

Wikipedia article on MiddleburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6841732The 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 1061513. 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.