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

Tobasco, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45245. The Survey maps it on the Withamsville quadrangle.

Tobasco within Clermont County

Then and now

1898 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tobasco, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Tobasco, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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 1891 county history

56 words on this township

The county history of 1891 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 56 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,328 shown

Museums hold 1,328 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tobasco between 1866 and 1975: 749 Animalia, 485 Fungi, 52 Plantae, 39 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND R KNOTTS, A JOHN AND T RITTER 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 Apophthisis pullata Braun, 1915Apophthisis pullata Braun, 19151929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1866Mohr, C.Bantam
A photograph of the species Asarum canadense, not of this specimenAsarum canadense L.1877Mohr, MarieClermont County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Trifolium stoloniferum, not of this specimenTrifolium stoloniferum Muhl.1877J. F. JamesMiamiville
A photograph of the species Leiothlypis peregrina, not of this specimenLeiothlypis peregrina (A.Wilson, 1811)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanLocust Corner
A photograph of the species Vireo griseus, not of this specimenVireo griseus noveboracensis (Gmelin, 1789)1879Freeman, L.Locust Corner, Clermont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Geastrum lageniforme, not of this specimenGeastrum lageniforme Vittad.1882Carley S. T.
A photograph of the species Liobunum Agassiz, not of this specimenLiobunum Agassiz, 18461890[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Mammuthus primigenius, not of this specimenMammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) (fossil)1900not recorded
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821904Lindahl, J. (Joshua)Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1909Braun, E. Lucy9-mile road in Ninemile
A photograph of the species Bryum argenteum, not of this specimenBryum argenteum Hedw.1909Braun, E. Lucy9-mile road in Ninemile

All 1,328 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Tobasco in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Flash FloodTobasco$25,000Water was reported over roadways and one road was washed away due to heavy rainfall.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindTobasco$5,000Several large trees and limbs were downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTobasco$1,500A tree and a large branch were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Clermont 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
Withamsville0.7 miles21
Hill Craft Acres1.1 miles21
Clough Heights1.2 miles21
Am-Beth Acres1.5 miles21
Alpine Terrace1.6 miles21
Ninemile2.0 miles21
Viking Village2.0 miles21
Mount Forest Trails2.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061696. 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.

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.