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

Pharisburg, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Leesburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43040. The Survey maps it on the Magnetic Springs quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Pharisburg within Union County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

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 Pharisburg, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Pharisburg, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 334 shown

Museums hold 334 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pharisburg between 1880 and 1975: 317 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, B., D. & B., D., B., D. & K., D. 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
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581880not recordedMarysville, Union, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Haliaeetus leucocephalus, not of this specimenHaliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766)1881not recordedPleasant Valley, Union, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1892E E BogueProspect
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1894Mrs. Smyth
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ã…ngstr.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Tetraphis pellucida, not of this specimenTetraphis pellucida Hedw.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Thelia asprella, not of this specimenThelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull.1894Mrs. Smyth
Uredo1897W. A. Kellerman
Uromyces plumbarius Peck1897W. A. Kellerman
unnamed1914not recorded
Erasmoneura nigra (Gillette, 1898)1914H.T. Osborn
A photograph of the species Hydnum erinaceus, not of this specimenHydnum erinaceus Bull.1918Weir J. R.Marysville

All 334 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Pharisburg in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPharisburg$6,000Several trees were downed between Richwood and Milford Center.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPharisburg$5,000Structural damage occurred to a barn due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2013Flash FloodPharisburg$1,000Wolford-Maskill Road at Martin Welch Road was covered by high moving water due to heavy rainfall.
December 2013FloodPharisburg-State Route 4 was closed in both directions due to high water caused by earlier heavy rainfall.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPharisburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Magnetic Springs2.3 miles13
Claiborne3.8 miles11
Parrott Village4.4 miles13
Taylor Centre (historical)4.9 miles14
Tawa Estates5.3 miles11
Richwood5.6 miles11
Broadway5.8 miles14
Woodview Park6.4 miles13

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 PharisburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7180711The 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 1061536. 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.