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Roxbury, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43787. It stands on Mill Run. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle.

Roxbury within Morgan County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Roxbury, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Roxbury, surveyed 1909

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.

In the 1880 county history

110 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Windsor Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Windsor Township - 110 words.

Fires nearby

30 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Roxbury between 2012 and 2019, burning about 17 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5585
9 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14665
5 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1461
25 June 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5045
27 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14245
24 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13508
20 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 464 shown

Museums hold 464 specimens collected within 10 miles of Roxbury between 1887 and 1974: 426 Animalia, 30 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.), Albaugh, Douglas W 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
Specimen of Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1962D. StansberyMuskingum River, Waterford, Below Dam At Beverly
A photograph of the species Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Crystallaria cincotta, not of this specimenCrystallaria cincotta Welsh & Wood, 20081888Gilbert, C. & Henshall, J. A. (James A.)Muskingum River, dst Beverly dam RM 24.8, 0.6 miles west of Beverly OH, Waterford township
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Pimephales vigilax, not of this specimenPimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1904not recordedMeigs Creek
A photograph of the species Merulius incarnatus, not of this specimenMerulius incarnatus Schwein.1906Collector unspecifiedMcConnellsville
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1910W. T. Mitchell & SonBeverly
A photograph of the species Hybopsis aestivalis, not of this specimenHybopsis aestivalis (Girard, 1856)1921Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)South Branch Wolf Creek, within Watertown township, near Watertown, Watertown township

All 464 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 Roxbury: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chesterhill Stone Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Number 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms nearby

1 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Roxbury in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2019Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$2,000Several trees were blown down along State Route 676.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Chadwick (historical)0.7 miles12
Brokaw1.2 miles14
Stockport3.0 miles12
Hooksburg4.6 miles12
Todds5.2 miles12
Mill Grove5.7 miles14
Center Bend6.1 miles14
Lovell6.6 miles12

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 RoxburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134212The 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 1065252. 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.