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

Newbern, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45365. It stands on Turtle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sidney quadrangle.

Newbern within Shelby County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Newbern, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Newbern, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1913 county history

1,680 words on this township

The county history of 1913 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 1,680 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 278 shown

Museums hold 278 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newbern between 1897 and 1967: 211 Animalia, 40 Fungi, 26 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Sorghum Moench	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	Shelby Co., Ohio.
Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub	1902	Grover, F.O.	Opens woods, N. Amherst, near F & D Quarry
Aleurodiscus macrodens Coker	1922	F.O. Grover	Black Swamp, Russia Twp.
unnamed	1897	WA Kellerman	Shelby County
Carex shortiana Dewey & Torr.	1897	Wetzstein, A.
Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1897	Selby A. D.	Kirkwood
Sorosporium reilianum (J.G.Kühn) McAlpine	1897	W. A. Kellerman
Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton	1897	Kellerman W. A.	Shelby Co.
Ustilago reiliana J.G.Kühn	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	Shelby County, Ohio.
Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1904	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	New Bremen, Shelby, Ohio, USA
Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1905	Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)	Loramie Creek, Sec 30 of Cynthian township, ~0.3 mi SW of Newport, Cynthian township
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1905	Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)	Loramie Creek, Sec 30 of Cynthian township, ~0.3 mi SW of Newport, Cynthian township

All 278 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 16 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Newbern: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 2 plants. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Miami River Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Rock Run Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miami River Stone Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rock Run Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Spring Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ernest Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Ernst Gravel Co Plant No 1 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ernst Gravel Co. Plant & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Morelock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Norelock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Shelby 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hardin	2.4 miles	15
Lockington	3.0 miles	16
Kirkwood	3.4 miles	16
Hickory Dell Estates	4.1 miles	16
Lakeside Village	4.2 miles	15
Dawson	4.2 miles	14
Buckeye Terrace	4.7 miles	15
Mount Jefferson	4.9 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Newbern	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134049	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057871. 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.