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

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.

North Auburn within Crawford County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The 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 sheet of North Auburn, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Auburn, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 county-history sources

30,163 words on this township

The 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 shown

Regional 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1970Jones, G.T.In moist deciduous woods west of North Auburn, Aubur Twp.
A photograph of the species Agalinis tenuifolia, not of this specimenAgalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Arisaema dracontium, not of this specimenArisaema dracontium (L.) Schott1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Euphorbia vermiculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia vermiculata Raf.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Lactuca serriola, not of this specimenLactuca serriola L.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Polygonum pensylvanicum, not of this specimenPolygonum pensylvanicum var. laevigatum Fernald1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Quercus bicolor, not of this specimenQuercus bicolor Willd.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Quercus palustris, not of this specimenQuercus palustris Münchh.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Ribes cynosbati, not of this specimenRibes cynosbati L.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
Sagittaria latifolia Willd.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
Scutellaria lateriflora L.1909Jennings, 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 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997LightningNorth Auburn$50,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Waynesburg0.5 miles11
Gardner2.7 miles13
Auburn Center3.0 miles13
New Washington3.3 miles11
Mechanicsburg3.8 miles11
Tiro4.4 miles11
Dekalb5.3 miles11
West Liberty7.3 miles13

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.