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

Robertsburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Radnor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43066. The Survey maps it on the Prospect quadrangle.

Robertsburg within Delaware County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Robertsburg, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Robertsburg, surveyed 1924

Compare 1924 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 468 shown

Museums hold 468 specimens collected within 10 miles of Robertsburg between 1871 and 1975: 409 Animalia, 42 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. R. Laughlin, C F WALKER & W D STULL, C F WALKER AND W D STULL 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
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887not recordedDelaware, near Olentangy River
Dryobates villosus (Linnaeus, 1766)1889not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1889not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1889not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Falco sparverius, not of this specimenFalco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus, 17581890not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Muhlenbergia mexicana, not of this specimenMuhlenbergia mexicana (L.) Trin.1890Wilcox, E.V.Deleware
A photograph of the species Chordeiles minor, not of this specimenChordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)1891not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981891not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1891not recordedDelaware
Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798)1891not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1892not recordedDelaware

All 468 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Robertsburg: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Penry QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Penry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Radnor2.8 miles12
Meredith3.1 miles12
Kerr Corner4.6 miles12
Norton4.7 miles15
Troyton4.8 miles15
Lantern Chase7.7 miles13
Westfield Hills7.8 miles13
Oakdale7.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062983. 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.