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

New Martinsburg, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45123. The Survey maps it on the New Martinsburg quadrangle.

New Martinsburg within Fayette 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 Martinsburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of New Martinsburg, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 county-history sources

4,436 words on this township

History of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Perry Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Gershom Perdue was born in Virginia in 1790, of French ancestry. His father died when he was a youth and he lived with his mother until eighteen years of age, then went to learn the trade of a tanner. He operated a tannery in Highland county, Ohio, a number of years; also conducted a mercantile business. He was the first nurseryman in southern Ohio, having established a nursery at Leesburg in 1816. In 1836. with his family, he removed to New Martinsburg, Fayette county, where he lived until his death, at a very advanced age. He was of great value to the church of his choice, the Christian denomination.

Passage source: History of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914.

The present commercial interests at New Martinsburg are confined to a few stores, and the village, with many other inland places, a few years ago was bereft of postoffice advantages by being placed on the rural free delivery route from Washington C. H. The churches and schools will be mentioned in general chapters on these topics.

Passage source: History of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914.

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 Perry Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 92 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 92 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Martinsburg between 1909 and 1975: 91 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bureau of Fisheries, Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.), Chandler, D. S. (Donald 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 Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Buena Vista
Specimen of Cambarus ortmanni Williamson, 1907Cambarus ortmanni Williamson, 19071939R. RhoadesWest Fork Lees Creek, 2 mi. W. of Centerville
A photograph of the species Notropis heterolepis, not of this specimenNotropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 18931926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Rattlesnake Creek, no more precise locality provided, SW corner of Fayette County OH
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #10 Fayette Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Plethodon richmondi, not of this specimenPlethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 19381929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Perry Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypagyrtis unipunctata, not of this specimenHypagyrtis unipunctata (Haworth, 1809)1931G.W. RawsonGood Hope
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1938Rhoades, R. (Randall)North Fork Buckskin Creek, within Ross Co, Ross County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Orconectes propinquus, not of this specimenOrconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852)1938R. RhoadesEast Branch of Buckskin Creek, 5 mi. NE of Greenfield, Buckskin Township
A photograph of the species Cambarus diogenes, not of this specimenCambarus diogenes Girard, 18521939R. RhoadesRichland Township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1939Rhoades, R. (Randall)Lees Creek, within Richland township, near Sabina, Richland township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 18191939Rhoades, R. (Randall)Sheperds Run, within Wayne township, near Washington Court House, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451939Rhoades, R. (Randall)Sheperds Run, within Wayne township, near Washington Court House, Wayne township

All 92 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Martinsburg: 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
Greenfield QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Greenfield Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Martinsburg in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Martinsburg$3,000A tree limb was down on power lines. Numerous trees were also reported down around the area.
May 2025HailNew Martinsburg-no account filed
May 2025HailNew Martinsburg-no account filed
June 2009HailNew Martinsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Buena Vista2.4 miles11
Georgetown3.7 miles11
Rock Mills4.3 miles11
Ghormley (historical)4.6 miles11
Staunton5.5 miles11
Good Hope6.3 miles12
Boyds8.0 miles11
Jasper Mills8.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065126. 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.