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

New Jasper, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Jasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45385. It stands on North Branch Caesar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedarville quadrangle.

New Jasper within Greene County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Jasper, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of New Jasper, surveyed 1917

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 714 shown

Museums hold 714 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Jasper between 1873 and 1975: 512 Animalia, 121 Plantae, 79 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. H. Bauer, A. M. Evans 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 Leiocolea gillmanii (Austin) A.EvansLeiocolea gillmanii (Austin) A.Evans1922William Bayard Taylor; G. H. ConklinClifbore[sp?] Gorge
Specimen of Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.1923Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorClifton Gorge
A photograph of the species Rhynchostegium serrulatum, not of this specimenRhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger1873Collector unspecifiedClifton
A photograph of the species Rhytidium rugosum, not of this specimenRhytidium rugosum (Hedw.) Kindb.1873not recordedClifton
A photograph of the species Thamnobryum alleghaniense, not of this specimenThamnobryum alleghaniense (Müll.Hal.) Nieuwl.1875H. J. BiddlecomeClifton
Brachythecium laetum (Brid.) Schimp.1876not recordedClifton
Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.Jaeger1876Mrs. Spence
A photograph of the species Bryum affine, not of this specimenBryum affine (Blandow ex Funck) Brid.1876Collector unspecifiedClifton
A photograph of the species Eurhynchium hians, not of this specimenEurhynchium hians (Hedw.) Sande Lac.1876H. J. BiddlecomeClifton
A photograph of the species Geocalyx graveolens, not of this specimenGeocalyx graveolens (Schrad.) Nees1876not recordedClifton
Plagiochila asplenioides (L.) Dumort.1876H. J. BiddlecomeClifton
Plagiomnium affine (Blandow ex Funck) T.J.Kop.1876not recordedClifton

All 714 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 New Jasper: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Cedarville Limestone CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms nearby

8 since 1997

The National Weather Service names New Jasper in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 1997Tornado (F2)New Jasper$50,000A brief tornado developed in the apex of a bow echo that moved across the county. A house was blown off its foundation and moved 35 feet away.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Jasper$10,000Numerous trees were reported down in Jasper and other parts of the county due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Jasper$3,000A tree was downed onto power lines.
February 2026Flash FloodNew Jasper$2,000Six inches of rain was flowing across New Jasper Station Road. A car was in a ditch with |with 2 feet of water.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Jasper$2,000A tree was downed near Waynesville Jamestown Road and Hoop Road. Another tree was downed along Paintersville New Jasper Road.
June 2017Flash FloodNew Jasper-Water was reported over Old U.S. 35.
April 2025HailNew Jasper-no account filed
April 2016HailNew Jasper-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Shawnee Hills1.7 miles14
Stringtown2.6 miles14
Pattersons Corner2.9 miles14
Monroe2.9 miles14
Silver Springs3.0 miles14
Jamestown4.5 miles11
Paintersville4.7 miles12
Mechanicsville (historical)5.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065122. 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.

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.