Middleburg, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43724. The Survey maps it on the Macksburg quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Middleburg
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Huffman Covered Bridgelisted 1975
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 13 printed 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.
- 1903 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,906 words on this townshipHistory of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Henry Enochs, son of Elisha Enochs, one of the pioneers of the East Fork, was an early settler south of Middleburg. He died in Lawrence County in 1886. His son, William H. Enochs, a brigadier-general in the late war, and now a prominent lawyer of Ironton, Ohio, was born on the farm south of Middleburg.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
John Hall, from Ncav England, settled on the East Fork soon after the War of 1812. He had served as a teamster in that war. He married a daughter of David Ales and lived in the same neighborhood. James S. Hall, his son, is among the oldest residents, having lived on his present farm since 1836. At that date there were very few^ settlers on the ridges. Mr. Hall, in his younger yeai*s used to go to mill in Marietta and Lowell. Marietta was the nearest trading point for all the early settlers, and there they traded maple sugar, deer skins, venison, etc., for salt and groceries. Most of the travel was on horeeback. Pack-saddles were used in place of wagons for carrying goods. Except the State Road from Barnesville to Marietta which led via Carlisle, Middleburg and Salem, there were no early roads through the township.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
Church Tuttle, the founder of Middleburg, was a Yankee and a most excellent man. He was shrewd, intelligent and possessed excellent judgment. He was an early abolitionist, and was identified with the Underground Railroad, being one of its most active agents in this section. He served as justice of the peace a number of years. From here he went to Washington County, and recently died in Marietta.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Jefferson Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.
Fires near this place
2 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Middleburg in 2020, burning about 63 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | HARRIETSVILLE |
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16016 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 97 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 97 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middleburg between 1853 and 1974: 79 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
| Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta | |
![]() | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | 1883 | Albert Hazen Wright | Marietta |
![]() | Trillium sessile L. | 1884 | not recorded | Macksburg |
![]() | Colletotrichum trifolii Bain | 1911 | Scarberry J. J. | MACKSBURG |
![]() | Erysiphe polygoni DC. | 1912 | E. Bartholomew | Caldwell |
![]() | Populus tremuloides Michx. | 1922 | Davis, H.A. | Marion |
![]() | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio |
All 97 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middleburg in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middleburg | $10,000 | Pictures were provided of damage to a home caused by a large tree limb, with some roof damage. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Middleburg | - | Near Middleburg, Route 564 had to be closed when flood waters reached 18 inches deep. West of Batesville, county road 31 flooded. |
| January 1999 | Hail | Middleburg | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rado (historical) | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Gem | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Elk | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Fulda | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Cliffyville (historical) | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Harriettsville | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Road Fork | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Dexter City | 4.5 miles | 13 |
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 Middleburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133968 | The 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 1077344. 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.
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.




















