Rowsburg, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1994

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.

• 1906 USGS West Salem quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS West Salem quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Jeromesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Jeromesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rowsburg between 2019 and 2020, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Redhaw
• England
• Jeromesville
• Treaton
• Albion
• Nankin

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Museums hold 263 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rowsburg between 1846 and 1975: 241 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea, Auten, B Zahuranec & party 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
	Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin	1923	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	near Londonville
	Mediorhynchus grandis Van Cleave, 1916	1846	P. Harwood	Ashland
	Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1897	Smith, D. W.	Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
	Danthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.	1897	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	Vermilion Township
	Euphorbia maculata L.	1897	Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea	Albion
	Mentha spicata L.	1897	G. B. Ashcroft	Albion
	Smilax tamnoides L.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Red Haw
	Tyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)	1900	Fuller, W. J.	Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
	Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1902	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1927	not recorded
	Sternotherus odoratus (Latreille, 1802)	1927	Drumm, J. C.	Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio
	Trionyx spiniferus Lesueur, 1827	1927	Drumm, J. C.	Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio

All 263 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rowsburg: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Ashland County

The National Weather Service names Rowsburg in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Ashland County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065250. 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.

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.