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

New Strasburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Amanda Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43102. It lies in Dutch Hollow. The Survey maps it on the East Ringgold quadrangle.

New Strasburg within Fairfield County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 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 Strasburg, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of New Strasburg, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1901 county history

15,419 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Amanda Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Amanda Township - 15,419 words.

Fires nearby

24 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of New Strasburg between 2006 and 2019, burning about 24 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 burning19
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15352
5 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15354
31 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15339
25 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15340
14 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15353
29 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15341
20 July 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15342
5 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15201

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,773 shown

Museums hold 1,773 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Strasburg between 1843 and 1975: 1,294 Animalia, 392 Fungi, 79 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Bales, B. R., Birch, W. 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 Kuehneola uredinis (Link) ArthurKuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur1891Freda DetmersRock Mill
Specimen of Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1892W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1896F.L. StevensLancaster
A photograph of the species Bryoxiphium norvegicum, not of this specimenBryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantnear Lancaster
A photograph of the species Phyllogonium norvegicum, not of this specimenPhyllogonium norvegicum Brid.1843Gray, A.; W. S. Sullivantnear Lancaster
A photograph of the species Bruchia flexuosa, not of this specimenBruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.1849C. L. LesquereuxLancaster
A photograph of the species Dicranodontium denudatum, not of this specimenDicranodontium denudatum (Brid.) E.Britton1849C. L. Lesquereux
A photograph of the species Dicranum condensatum, not of this specimenDicranum condensatum Hedw.1849C. L. LesquereuxLancaster
A photograph of the species Aecidium Pers., not of this specimenAecidium Pers.1883W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium cimicifugatum (Schwein.) Sacc.1883W. A. KellermanNear Amanda
Aecidium compositarum Mart.1883W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium galii Pers.1883Kellerman, W.A.Amanda

All 1,773 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Amanda1.0 miles12
Wyandotte (historical)2.6 miles12
Cedar Hill3.5 miles12
Oakland3.7 miles12
Drinkle4.6 miles13
Millers (historical)4.6 miles12
Stoutsville4.8 miles12
Clearport4.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065137. 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.