North Auburn, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Auburn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44887. The Survey maps it on the New Washington quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 79 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
11 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.
- 1915 USGS Bucyrus quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Bucyrus quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS New Washington quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS New Washington quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
30,163 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Auburn Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Auburn Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 52 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 52 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Auburn between 1909 and 1970: 33 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Edwin E. Honey, G. T. Jones, Jennings, O.E. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw. | 1970 | Jones, G.T. | In moist deciduous woods west of North Auburn, Aubur Twp. |
![]() | Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf. | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
![]() | Arisaema dracontium (L.) Schott | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
![]() | Euphorbia vermiculata Raf. | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
![]() | Galium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
![]() | Lactuca serriola L. | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
![]() | Polygonum pensylvanicum var. laevigatum Fernald | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
![]() | Quercus bicolor Willd. | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
![]() | Quercus palustris Münchh. | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
![]() | Ribes cynosbati L. | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
| Sagittaria latifolia Willd. | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth | |
| Scutellaria lateriflora L. | 1909 | Jennings, O.E. | 2-3 mi W of Plymouth |
All 52 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Auburn in 1 storm report between 1997 and 1997: 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Lightning | North Auburn | $50,000 | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waynesburg | 0.5 miles | 11 | |
| Gardner | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Auburn Center | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| New Washington | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Mechanicsburg | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Tiro | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Dekalb | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| West Liberty | 7.3 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065161. 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.
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.




















