South Newbury, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 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.

• 1905 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000

Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Newbury Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of South Newbury between 2019 and 2019, 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:

• Burton
• Burton Lake
• Burton Station
• Maple Grove
• Middlefield
• Popes Corners

Every fire recorded in Geauga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,553 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Newbury between 1887 and 1975: 2,442 Animalia, 102 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hoenigman, A. M. Evans, A. Woolman 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
	Riparia riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Fred Haggart
	Medeola virginiana L.	1895	Watson,J.R. s.n. [1895-06-30]	[label: Herbarium of J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Geauga Co. [County]
	Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.	1896	Edo N. Claassen	Thompson Ledges
	Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray	1887	Leonard, F.E.	Munson
	Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1889	Collector(s): F. S. Haggart	No specific locality recorded.
	Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.	1890	M. Rodman	Sugar Grove.
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1893	A. Woolman	Aurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	A. Woolman	Aurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
	Nocomis micropogon (Cope, 1865)	1893	A. Woolman	Aurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
	Noturus flavus Rafinesque, 1818	1893	A. Woolman	Aurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
	Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1893	Woolman	Aurora branch of Chagrin River, Ohio
	Cypripedium reginae Walter	1896	J. R. Watson	Geauga

All 2,553 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of South Newbury: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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 Geauga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Newbury in 1 storm report between 2024 and 2024: 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.

Every storm recorded in Geauga County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065352. 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.