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

Petersburg, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44454. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Middletown quadrangle.

Petersburg within Mahoning County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

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 Petersburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Petersburg, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 310 shown

Museums hold 310 specimens collected within 10 miles of Petersburg between 1853 and 1952: 158 Animalia, 151 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Baird, S. F., Baird, SF, Baird, Spencer Fullerton 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 Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850Cottus bairdii Girard, 18501853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.LawsonAthyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson1885Shafer, J.A.Petersburg
Specimen of Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1891W. H. OlneyPoland
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1853not recordedPoland, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191853C. KirtlandYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio

All 310 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Petersburg: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Clay, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dillon PitClay, CoalProducer
Honeycreek Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Honeycreek Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thompson MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Storms nearby

2 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Petersburg in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2010Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$25,000Thunderstorm winds measured at 70 mph downed several trees. At least one home sustained roof damage.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPetersburg$5,000Several large tree limbs and power lines were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Mahoning 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
Subrosa (historical)2.2 miles16
New Middletown3.7 miles16
New Springfield4.0 miles16
Ginger Hill4.6 miles16
Meadowood4.8 miles16
Smith Corners6.1 miles16
Five Points6.7 miles17
Morgantown6.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061535. 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.

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.