New Petersburg, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paint Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45133. The Survey maps it on the Greenfield quadrangle.
Then and now
1917 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1917 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
7 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of New Petersburg between 2006 and 2014, burning about 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 November 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 November 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 November 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | BARRETT MILL ROAD |
| 16 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,074 shownMuseums hold 1,074 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Petersburg between 1880 and 1975: 581 Animalia, 394 Fungi, 76 Plantae, 20 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14505, 14519, 14555 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Entyloma compositarum Farl. | 1894 | F. L. Stevens | Highland Falls. |
![]() | Aecidium asterum Schwein. | 1895 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Puccinia podophylli Schwein. | 1895 | F. L. Stevens | Highland County |
![]() | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1880 | not recorded | Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America |
![]() | Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829) | 1881 | S.M. Taggert | Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America |
![]() | Andropogon gerardi Vitman | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Paint Creek |
![]() | Asplenium rhizophyllum L. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | "Caves" Paint Creek |
![]() | Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Paint Creek |
![]() | Cardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Paint Creek |
![]() | Cinna arundinacea L. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Panel Creek |
![]() | Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Careo, Paint Creek |
![]() | Diarrhena americana P.Beauv. | 1910 | Hopkins, L.S. | Point Creek |
All 1,074 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
6 since 1999The National Weather Service names New Petersburg in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | New Petersburg | $10,000 | The tornado initially touched down near a residence north of the intersection of State Route 138 and Hardins Creek Road where a tree was downed. Further north along State Route 138, several trees were snapped. On Road T-319A, a small unanchored shed was completely removed from its slab, and a barn had part of its roof removed on both its northwest and southeast sides. In addition, some trees in this area were snapped.||The next observed damage was along State Route 753 about one mile north of the bridge over Rattlesnake Creek, where several trees were snapped. A slightly more concentrated area of tree damage was observed on Paint Creek Road just to the west of Paint Creek. Some tall trees were snapped and sheet metal debris from earlier damage was also found along Paint Creek Road.||To the west of Paint Creek in Ross County, no further damage was observed. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Petersburg | $4,000 | Several trees were downed on Lakeside Drive. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Petersburg | $3,000 | Trees knocked down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Petersburg | $2,000 | A few trees were downed on State Route 138 in the Petersburg area due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Petersburg | $1,000 | Numerous trees and limbs were downed near the intersection of State Routes 138 and 771. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Petersburg | $1,000 | One large limb was downed due to thunderstorm winds. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stringtown | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Rainsboro | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Highland Holiday | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Boston | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bridges | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Barretts Mills | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Rocky Fork Point | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| McCoppin Mill | 5.5 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065130. 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.
























