Petersburg, Ohio

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.

1912 1981

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.

• 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Petersburg between 2006 and 2017, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Glade
• Grahamsville
• Sharon
• Four Mile
• Keystone
• Banner

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Museums hold 1,118 specimens collected within 10 miles of Petersburg between 1899 and 1975: 557 Plantae, 393 Animalia, 162 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans, A.J. Sharp 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
	Metzgeria furcata (L.) Corda	1925	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.	1925	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Polyporus semipileatus Peck	1928	Walter Phillips	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA
	Rorippa Scop.	1905	F. Bartley	3 mi south of Jackson
	Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1915	Hedgcock G. G.	Jackson
	Eriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889)	1923	Miller, A. E. (August E.)	Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A.
	unnamed	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Bazzania trilobata (L.) Gray	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Cephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch

All 1,118 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Petersburg: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jackson County

The National Weather Service names Petersburg in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062936. 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.

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.

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.