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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.

New Petersburg within Highland 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 Petersburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of New Petersburg, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

7 since 2006

The 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1
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
12 April 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 February 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 November 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesBARRETT MILL ROAD
16 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,074 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Entyloma compositarum Farl.Entyloma compositarum Farl.1894F. L. StevensHighland Falls.
Specimen of Aecidium asterum Schwein.Aecidium asterum Schwein.1895F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia podophylli Schwein.Puccinia podophylli Schwein.1895F. L. StevensHighland County
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1880not recordedLees Creek, Leesburg, North America
A photograph of the species Elimia semicarinata, not of this specimenElimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1881S.M. TaggertLees Creek, Leesburg, North America
A photograph of the species Andropogon gerardi, not of this specimenAndropogon gerardi Vitman1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1910Hopkins, L.S."Caves" Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Brachyelytrum erectum, not of this specimenBrachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cardamine pensylvanica, not of this specimenCardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cinna arundinacea, not of this specimenCinna arundinacea L.1910Hopkins, L.S.Panel Creek
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1910Hopkins, L.S.Careo, Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Diarrhena americana, not of this specimenDiarrhena americana P.Beauv.1910Hopkins, L.S.Point Creek

All 1,074 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 1999

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Tornado (EF0)New Petersburg$10,000The 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 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Petersburg$4,000Several trees were downed on Lakeside Drive.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Petersburg$3,000Trees knocked down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Petersburg$2,000A few trees were downed on State Route 138 in the Petersburg area due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Petersburg$1,000Numerous trees and limbs were downed near the intersection of State Routes 138 and 771.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Petersburg$1,000One large limb was downed due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Highland 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
Stringtown3.0 miles17
Rainsboro3.2 miles17
Highland Holiday4.7 miles17
Boston4.8 miles14
Bridges5.1 miles12
Barretts Mills5.1 miles17
Rocky Fork Point5.5 miles17
McCoppin Mill5.5 miles17

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.