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Wahlsburg, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45121. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamersville quadrangle.

Wahlsburg within Brown County

Then and now

1928 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wahlsburg, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Wahlsburg, surveyed 1928

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wahlsburg between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16058

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 372 shown

Museums hold 372 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wahlsburg between 1885 and 1974: 288 Animalia, 73 Fungi, 11 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. Braun, Berry M. D.? 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 Hirneola auricularis (Gray) DonkHirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk1903Blickle, A.H.Brown County, Ohio
Specimen of Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)1929A. Braun[Not Stated]
Specimen of Fomes conchatus (Pers.) GilletFomes conchatus (Pers.) Gillet1934Kaps, C.Locust Ridge
A photograph of the species Valsa ludibunda, not of this specimenValsa ludibunda Sacc.1885Rev. C. H. Demetrio(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Equisetum hyemale, not of this specimenEquisetum hyemale L.1897Kreke, Fr. M.Arnheim
A photograph of the species Panus stipticus, not of this specimenPanus stipticus (Bull.) Fr.1903Lyon, C. D.Higginsport
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1905Stephens J.Mt. Orab
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1907Berry M. D.?Georgetown
A photograph of the species Perenniporia robiniophila, not of this specimenPerenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden1909J. P. Tracy
Secotium agaricoides (Czern.) Hollós1913Lyon C. D.Georgetown
A photograph of the species Anaptychia palmulata, not of this specimenAnaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak Creek

All 372 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 Wahlsburg: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Georgetown Pit Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Georgetown Pit Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms nearby

9 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Wahlsburg in 9 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Wahlsburg$40,000A tobacco barn and several trees were knocked down at 9141 Day Hill Arnheim Road. The house also had siding damage.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Wahlsburg$5,000Several trees were downed, including one onto a car at a home on Russellville-Arnheim Road. A barn was also damaged.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Wahlsburg$3,000Numerous trees were downed on West Fork Road near the intersection with Wahlsburg East Road and Baker Hanselman Road.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWahlsburg$2,000A few trees were downed near the 4900 block of Wahlsburg East Road.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindWahlsburg$250Several large tree branches were downed in the Wahlsburg area.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWahlsburg$250Window shutters were blown off of a house.
July 2023FloodWahlsburg-High water was reported on several roads.
June 2017FloodEast Wahlsburg-Law enforcement was reporting lingering high water in several locations throughout Brown County.
July 2019HailEast Wahlsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Sunshine (historical)1.3 miles10
White Oak Valley1.4 miles10
West Arnheim2.1 miles11
East Wahlsburg2.3 miles11
Whiteoak Springs (historical)2.5 miles10
Georgetown3.4 miles12
North Feesburg (historical)3.5 miles10
New Hope3.5 miles10

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 WahlsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22673257The 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 1065443. 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.