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

Pottersburg, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Allen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43040. It stands on Bear Swamp Run. The Survey maps it on the East Liberty quadrangle. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Pottersburg 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 Pottersburg, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Pottersburg, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Pottersburg Bridge, Spanning Big Darby Creek, North Lewisburg Road (CR 164), North Lewisburg, Union County, OH
Pottersburg Bridge, Spanning Big Darby Creek, North Lewisburg Road (CR 164), North Lewisburg, Union County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 444 shown

Museums hold 444 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pottersburg between 1880 and 1975: 413 Animalia, 25 Fungi, 6 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, 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
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1894Mrs. Smyth
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.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
A photograph of the species Rhytisma Fr., not of this specimenRhytisma Fr.1901W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Cercospora maianthemi, not of this specimenCercospora maianthemi Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Scolecotrichum graminis, not of this specimenScolecotrichum graminis Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
Scolicotrichum graminis Fuckel1902Kellerman, William AshbrookWest Mansfield

All 444 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Pottersburg in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2018: 5 flood, 1 flash 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
June 2018FloodPottersburg$2,000There were numerous reports of vehicles stalled in high water, with several roads closed.
June 2017FloodPottersburg$1,000A vehicle was stuck in the water.
July 2013Flash FloodPottersburg$1,000Westlake-Lee Road was closed at Paver-Barnes Road due to moving high water caused by heavy rainfall. Shirk Road was also closed due to high water. Highway 33 at Honda Parkway was covered by water.
June 2018FloodPottersburg-A few creeks remained out of their banks across the western part of Union County. High water was also reported on several roads across the county.
June 2017FloodPottersburg-High water was reported on the road.
December 2013FloodPottersburg-State Route 245 was closed due to high water caused by earlier heavy rainfall.

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
Allen Center2.1 miles12
Hunters Run3.5 miles12
Otter4.4 miles14
Peoria4.4 miles14
Raymond5.1 miles14
Green Pastures6.3 miles12
Milford Estates6.7 miles12
Lunda6.8 miles14

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 PottersburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7235322The 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 1057936. 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.