BlockPottersburg, 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.
Then and now
1913 to 1992The 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 sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1913 USGS East Liberty quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS East Liberty quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS East Liberty quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS East Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
41,266 words on this townshipThe History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Allen Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Pottersbnrg Methodist Episcopal Church. - In the winter of 1877, Rev. Frank Loyd held a series of meetings in the schoolhouse at Pottersbnrg, and during this time constituted a class consisting of the following persons: Clinton Leonard and wife Nancy, F. J. Robinson and wife Allie F., Mrs. Maiy Ann Burgandine, Samuel Burgandine and wife Jane, Andrew Palmer and wife Nancy, William Robinson, Oliver Grubbs and wife Ruth, Eli Norviel, Willis Epps and wife Sarah, and a few others, with Clinton Leonard, Willis Epps and Eli Norviel as class-leaders. They held their services in the schoolhouse till the summer of 1880, when they erected the present frame house, 28x42 feet, for church purposes, at a cost of $1,200. The house was dedicated to service by Rev. George H. Kennedy, September 5. 1880. The followinc^r ministers have served the church since its organization: Revs. Frank Loyd and George H. Kennedy, who served while in connection with the North Lewisburg Circuit. After the eroction of the church edifice, this society was united with the Newton Circuit, and Rev. John Parlette became their minister; he was succeeded by Rev. Winfield Jaggors. The present minister is Rev. Mr. Little. Present membership, thirty-three, with Clinton Leonard and Samuel Burgandine, as class -leaders. A Sunday school was organized a short time prior to the constitution of the church, which has since been continued and is in a flourishing condition, averaging about fifty scholars in attendance, with L. F. Lary, Acting Superintendent.
Passage source: The History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883.
February 18, 1869, Andrew S. Mowry sxuweyed and laid out a town on Survey No. 315. for David A. Williams and George F. Bennett, to be known as Pottersbnrg, consisting of twenty-four lots, one main street sixty-six feet wide, and four cross streets, viz.: Front, William, Bennett and Carter, each sixty-six feet wide; the lots all situated on Main street commencing with No. 1, and numbering to 24, with all the odd numbers 1 , 3, 5, etc., upon one side of the street, and all the even numbers, 2, 4, 6, etc., on the opposite side, with alleys in the rear of said lots, each twenty feet wide. The plat and grant of lands dedicated to streets and alleys for public use were duly acknowledged and signed by said Williams and Bennett, and their wives, April 14, 1869, before W. M. Winget, a Justice of the Peace, and tha same recorded May 1, 1869, by James Smith, Recorder of Union County, Ohio.
Passage source: The History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883.
October 22, 1872, T'homas Cowgill surveyed and laid out fourteen lots with one sti'eet, known as Railroad street, to be an addition to the town of Pottersbnrg; said addition being situated on the north side of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, adjoining the town on the north, and made by W. Armstrong. Said street is sixty feet wide. Lot No. 1 is located at the east side of said addition, and numbering westward 2, 3, etc., to No. 14, with three alleys from Railroad street to the rear of said lots, each sixteen and one-half feet wide; and also an alley in rear of lots of same width; the same being duly ajjpropriated and signed and executed by W. Armstrong and wife, before Gilbert H. Stewart, a Notary Public. Recorded December 17, 1872, Hiram Raney, Recorder, Union County, Ohio.
Passage source: The History of Union County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns ... Military Record;, published 1883.
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 Allen Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
1 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pottersburg in 2002, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 March 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 444 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758 | 1880 | not recorded | Marysville, Union, Ohio, USA |
 | Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1881 | not recorded | Pleasant Valley, Union, Ohio, USA |
| Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1894 | Mrs. Smyth | ||
 | Leucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr. | 1894 | not recorded | |
 | Tetraphis pellucida Hedw. | 1894 | not recorded | |
 | Thelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull. | 1894 | Mrs. Smyth | |
| Uredo | 1897 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
| Uromyces plumbarius Peck | 1897 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
 | Rhytisma Fr. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | West Mansfield |
 | Cercospora maianthemi Fuckel | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | West Mansfield |
 | Scolecotrichum graminis Fuckel | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | West Mansfield |
| Scolicotrichum graminis Fuckel | 1902 | Kellerman, William Ashbrook | West Mansfield |
All 444 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
6 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Flood | Pottersburg | $2,000 | There were numerous reports of vehicles stalled in high water, with several roads closed. |
| June 2017 | Flood | Pottersburg | $1,000 | A vehicle was stuck in the water. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Pottersburg | $1,000 | Westlake-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 2018 | Flood | Pottersburg | - | 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 2017 | Flood | Pottersburg | - | High water was reported on the road. |
| December 2013 | Flood | Pottersburg | - | State Route 245 was closed due to high water caused by earlier heavy rainfall. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Center | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Hunters Run | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Otter | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Peoria | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Raymond | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Green Pastures | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Milford Estates | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Lunda | 6.8 miles | 14 |
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 Pottersburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7235322 | The 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.
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.
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.