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Gallia County, Ohio

96 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases across 1 place.

Research this county

From the record

9 National Register listings published here · 62 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1885 to 1916.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service

Ohio within the United States
Gallia County within Ohio
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What the record shows

  • 1 place in this county was surveyed for fire insurance: Gallipolis, between 1885 and 1948.
  • 8 fire insurance atlases survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
  • 1,239 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 9 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 7 buildings and 2 districts.
  • 2 of the 9 listings were added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 91 populated places in this county; 91 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Photographs

35 photographs, 1940 to 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. Bailey, FSA (Farm Security Administration) county supervisor, visiting Reed Hall on his unproductive farm in the hill section of this county. Mr. Bailey is attempting to recruit men from this type of farm for farm labor training and relocation in more productive farming areas
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. Bailey, FSA (Farm Security Administration) county supervisor, visiting Reed Hall on his unproductive farm in the hill section of this county. Mr. Bailey is attempting to recruit men from this type of farm for farm labor training and relocation in more productive farming areas
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Towboat Katherine Davis in Gallipolis locks
Gallipolis, Ohio. Towboat Katherine Davis in Gallipolis locks
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Looking towards Point Pleasant, West Virginia from Gallipolis, Ohio
Looking towards Point Pleasant, West Virginia from Gallipolis, Ohio
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Part of crowd at Decoration Day ceremonies
Gallipolis, Ohio. Part of crowd at Decoration Day ceremonies
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Vinton Kerr (on the tractor), a local farmer hired to instruct farm labor trainees at Rio Grande College
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Vinton Kerr (on the tractor), a local farmer hired to instruct farm labor trainees at Rio Grande College
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hall at their new home on a 500 acre dairy farm in Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. Hall was placed on this farm after attending the farm labor training school at Rio Grande College, Ohio
Rio Grande, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hall at their new home on a 500 acre dairy farm in Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. Hall was placed on this farm after attending the farm labor training school at Rio Grande College, Ohio
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. The tow leaving the locks
Gallipolis, Ohio. The tow leaving the locks
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Coal barges going through lock
Coal barges going through lock
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Deck hands straightening out the ropes, seen from the Charles T. Campbell, a towboat
Gallipolis, Ohio. Deck hands straightening out the ropes, seen from the Charles T. Campbell, a towboat
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Making up the arrangement of tow aboard the Ernest T. Weir, a towboat
Gallipolis, Ohio. Making up the arrangement of tow aboard the Ernest T. Weir, a towboat
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Ohio. Farm workers Leighton Cassidy, John Floyd, Wayne Gibson and Albert McCune, in training at Rio Grande College
Rio Grande, Ohio. Farm workers Leighton Cassidy, John Floyd, Wayne Gibson and Albert McCune, in training at Rio Grande College
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Reed Hall and his wife, Evelyn, in their home in the hill section before moving to 500 acre dairy farm where Mr. Hall received employment as a result of his training at Rio Grande College
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Reed Hall and his wife, Evelyn, in their home in the hill section before moving to 500 acre dairy farm where Mr. Hall received employment as a result of his training at Rio Grande College
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Cemetery overlooking the Ohio River
Cemetery overlooking the Ohio River
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Going through the locks
Gallipolis, Ohio. Going through the locks
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. The gate locks opening for a towboat to join the double locking as seen from the Charles T. Campbell, a towboat
Gallipolis, Ohio. The gate locks opening for a towboat to join the double locking as seen from the Charles T. Campbell, a towboat
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Relationship of roller dam to lock
Gallipolis, Ohio. Relationship of roller dam to lock
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Lock gates closing after Katherine Davis had gone through
Gallipolis, Ohio. Lock gates closing after Katherine Davis had gone through
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Almost submerged locks in Ohio River
Gallipolis, Ohio. Almost submerged locks in Ohio River
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio(?). Coal barges entering locks
Gallipolis, Ohio(?). Coal barges entering locks
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Land around Gallipolis, Ohio
Land around Gallipolis, Ohio
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Katherine Davis going down the Ohio River through the Gallipolis locks
Gallipolis, Ohio. Katherine Davis going down the Ohio River through the Gallipolis locks
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Water gates closing behind coal barges
Gallipolis, Ohio. Water gates closing behind coal barges
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Jim Stevens and Samuel George feed 100 head of hogs on Harry Linebaugh's farm
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Jim Stevens and Samuel George feed 100 head of hogs on Harry Linebaugh's farm
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stevens now living on the 280 acre dairy farm of Harry Linebaugh. They had formerly farmed thirty acres in Kentucky, raising mostly tobacco. Mr. Stevens received farm labor training at Ohio State University
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stevens now living on the 280 acre dairy farm of Harry Linebaugh. They had formerly farmed thirty acres in Kentucky, raising mostly tobacco. Mr. Stevens received farm labor training at Ohio State University
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Land around Gallipolis, Ohio
Land around Gallipolis, Ohio
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. James Uriah Dove in the hog house, talking with his new hired men from Kentucky
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. James Uriah Dove in the hog house, talking with his new hired men from Kentucky
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Ohio. Reed Hall and his wife, Evelyn, on the porch of a new tenant home on 500 acre dairy farm in Gallia County, Ohio, where they were placed after Mr. Hall attended farm labor training school at Rio Grande College, Ohio
Rio Grande, Ohio. Reed Hall and his wife, Evelyn, on the porch of a new tenant home on 500 acre dairy farm in Gallia County, Ohio, where they were placed after Mr. Hall attended farm labor training school at Rio Grande College, Ohio
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Girl flag bearers at Decoration Day ceremonies
Gallipolis, Ohio. Girl flag bearers at Decoration Day ceremonies
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Overlooking Gallipolis, Ohio
Overlooking Gallipolis, Ohio
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1940. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Reed Hall and his wife in their home in the hill section, before moving to 500 acre dairy farm where Mr. Hall received employment as a result of his training at Rio Grande College
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Reed Hall and his wife in their home in the hill section, before moving to 500 acre dairy farm where Mr. Hall received employment as a result of his training at Rio Grande College
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Farm labor trainees live in dormitories at Rio Grande College
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Farm labor trainees live in dormitories at Rio Grande College
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Barges entering the locks as seen from the towboat Charles T. Campbell
Gallipolis, Ohio. Barges entering the locks as seen from the towboat Charles T. Campbell
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Roller dam showing how river barrier is raised or lowered
Gallipolis, Ohio. Roller dam showing how river barrier is raised or lowered
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Lock gates opening to allow the barges to enter
Gallipolis, Ohio. Lock gates opening to allow the barges to enter
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis Locks & Dam, Across Ohio River, Gallipolis, Mason County, WV
Gallipolis Locks & Dam, Across Ohio River, Gallipolis, Mason County, WV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Places on the National Register

9

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Davis Millbuilding198080003028
Evans Housebuilding198484003692
Ewington Academybuilding198282003572
Gallipolis Historic Districtdistrict200101000899
Gallipolis Public Square and Garden Lots Historic Districtdistrict198080003027
Gatewoodbuilding198686002877
Ohio Hospital For Epileptics Stone Water Towersbuilding197878002069
Our Housebuilding197070000494
Wood Old Homesteadbuilding198787002144

Digitised newspapers

5 issues

Sampled issues, machine-read from the Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline and column is searchable text.

Gallipolis Journal

Gallipolis, Ohio, 1837 to 1919. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.

Photographs from libraries nationwide

1 shown

Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 1 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.

[Map of W. Dall's lots in Athens County, Washington County, and Gallia County, Ohio], Boston Public Library - undated
[Map of W. Dall's lots in Athens County, Washington County, and Gallia County, Ohio]. Dall, W, Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.

The county from the air

25 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 867 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 25 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-02-25, scale 1:27000
1959-02-25, scale 1:27000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-02-25, scale 1:27000
1959-02-25, scale 1:27000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-02-25, scale 1:27000
1959-02-25, scale 1:27000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1959-02-25, scale 1:27000
1959-02-25, scale 1:27000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-03-21, scale 1:24000
1971-03-21, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-03-21, scale 1:24000
1971-03-21, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1976-04-01, scale 1:80000
1976-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-04-13, scale 1:31000
1956-04-13, scale 1:31000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-04-13, scale 1:31000
1956-04-13, scale 1:31000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-04-13, scale 1:31000
1956-04-13, scale 1:31000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-04-13, scale 1:31000
1956-04-13, scale 1:31000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-13, scale 1:60000
1960-04-13, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-13, scale 1:60000
1960-04-13, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-13, scale 1:60000
1960-04-13, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-13, scale 1:60000
1960-04-13, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1967-03-30, scale 1:24000
1967-03-30, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1967-03-30, scale 1:24000
1967-03-30, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1967-03-30, scale 1:24000
1967-03-30, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1967-03-30, scale 1:24000
1967-03-30, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-03-21, scale 1:24000
1971-03-21, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1976-04-01, scale 1:80000
1976-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

6 stations, 3 gages

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

The 1950 census, district by district

36 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

  • 27-1Addison township: Addison township - That part north of Champaign Creek
  • 27-2Addison township - That part south of Champaign Creek
  • 27-3Cheshire township: Cheshire township - That part north of State Hwy. 554 and west of State Hwy. 7
  • 27-4Cheshire township - That part south of State Hwy. 554 and east of State Hwy. 7
  • 27-5Clay township: Chambersburg village
  • 27-6Clay township - That part outside Chambersburg village
  • 27-7Gallipolis township: Gallipolis city: Gallipolis city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by City limits; Ward line; Chickamauga Creek; Ohio River, City limits
  • 27-8Gallipolis city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by Chickamauga Creek; Ward line, Court; Ohio River (City limits); Chickamauga Creek
  • 27-9Gallipolis city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Third Ave.; Olive; Ohio River (City limits); Cedar
  • 27-10Gallipolis city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Third Ave.; Cedar; Ohio River (City limits); Court
  • 27-11Gallipolis city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by City limits; Ward line, Neil, Fourth Ave., Olive; Third Ave.; Spruce, Spruce extended
  • 27-12Gallipolis city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by City limits; Spruce extended, Spruce; Third Ave.; Court, Ward line
  • 27-13Gallipolis city - That part of Ward 4 Bounded by City limits; City limits; Ohio River (City limits); Mill Creek Rd.
  • 27-14Gallipolis city - That part of Ward 4, excluding Ohio Hospital for Epileptics Bounded by City limits; Mill Creek Road; Ohio River (City limits); Olive, Fourth Ave., Neil, Ward line
  • 27-15Ohio Hospital for Epileptics (In Gallipolis city, Ward 4)
  • 27-16Gallipolis township - That part outside Gallipolis city
  • 27-17Green township: Green township - That part north of State Hwy. 141
  • 27-18Green township - That part south of State Hwy. 141
  • 27-19Greenfield township
  • 27-20Guyan township: Crown City village
  • 27-21Guyan township - That part east of State Hwy. 218, outside Crown City village
  • 27-22Guyan township - That part west of State Hwy. 218
  • 27-23Harrison township
  • 27-24Huntington township: Vinton village
  • 27-25Huntington township - That part outside Vinton village
  • 27-26Morgan township
  • 27-27Ohio township: Ohio township - That part east of Swan Creek
  • 27-28Ohio township - That part west of Swan Creek
  • 27-29Perry township
  • 27-30Raccoon township: Centerville village
  • 27-31Rio Grande village
  • 27-32Raccoon township - That part outside Centerville and Rio Grande villages
  • 27-33Springfield township: Springfield township - That part north and east of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
  • 27-34Springfield township - That part south and west of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
  • 27-35Walnut township: Walnut township - That part north of the section line from the northeast corner of section 24, Township 4 North, Range 16 West to the northwest corner of section 19, Township 4 North, Range 16 West
  • 27-36Walnut township - That part south of the section line from the northeast corner of section 24, Township 4 North, Range 16 West to the northwest corner of section 19, Township 4 North, Range 16 West

Businesses named in the atlases

62 businesses

Every Sanborn volume opens with a printed index naming the town's mills, tanneries, hotels and works by proprietor. Those indexes were read off the scanned sheets by machine and then matched to each other, so a business surveyed four times appears here once, with the years it survived. 22 of these 62 were named in more than one atlas. Each carries a crop of the line it was read from: the spelling is the recogniser's and the 1880s lithographer's, and the scan behind it is the proof.

Wildfire, 1997 to 2020

290 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 290 of them, burning about 1,406 acres. 1 started naturally and 38 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined104
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Natural1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined171 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesELLIOT ROAD
21 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2006Arson/incendiarism40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesSMOKEY ROW
31 March 1998Debris and open burning40 acresWayne National ForestBARTELS
4 November 2007Debris and open burning30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1968 to 2026

60 of 322 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 322 reports for this county, causing 2 deaths, 21 injuries and about $18,380,650 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind129
Hail82
Flood52
Flash Flood42
Tornado8
Heavy Rain6
Funnel Cloud2
Lightning1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2020FloodThurman1 killed, $5,000Multiple roads were closed across the county due to flooding, including State Route 325, State Route 233, and State Route 141. On the evening of the 14th, a 73 year old man drowned in the flood waters at the intersection of State Route 141 and German Ridge Road. The man drove his car into the high water and was overcome by the rushing water.
March 2008Heavy RainEwington1 killed, $5,000A man drowned along a swollen Racoon Creek and a low spot along Route 325 near the village of Vinton. Otherwise, county officials reported no flooding. ||According to a state report, the driver drove partially into water covering the road, but then backed out. This was at night. The driver then pulled into a nearby driveway and asked the property owner if he thought he could make it through the water. The property owner told the driver that if he could see the edge lines, he should be okay. The driver then proceeded to drive into the water, where his pickup truck was caught by the current and swept downstream. The driver was able to get out of his truck. The property owner ran over to try to help, offering a long stick to the driver, telling him to swim toward it. The driver was unable to make it. His body was recovered a few hours later.
April 1968Tornado (F5)not stated17 hurt, $250,000no account filed
May 2002Tornado (F2)Adamsville3 hurt, $3,500,000A warm frontal boundary interacted with a complex of showers and thunderstorms to form a tornado on the southern flank of the precipitation. Touchdown was along Adamsville Road near Route 35. The roof was ripped off a home, 2 mobile homes were destroyed, along with a pole barn. The tornado then struck both rest areas on Route 35. The rest building on the north side of the highway was severely damaged. At least 2 tractor trailers were flipped over, while others parked in the lot, were damaged. Another mobile home near the rest stop was destroyed. Proceeding just east to Dewey Road, the tornado wiped a modular home off its foundation. A trailer was destroyed at the corner of Kerr and Viney Roads. Down Kerr Road, a home had its roof removed and a mobile home was moved off its foundation. On Fairview Road, another mobile home was damaged. What was amazing and fortunate, in just about all the cases, no one was home when the tornado struck. Three people were injured at the rest stop.
May 2015LightningNorthup1 hurtA woman was fishing along Racoon Creek off of Route 20 with her boyfriend and 4 year old child. Lightning hit a tree. A large branch hit the woman on the head. She suffered head and back injuries.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindThurman$2,500,000Scattered locations throughout the county had large trees and branches blown down. The most concentrated damage in Gallipolis appeared along 4th Avenue. Monuments were damaged in area cemeteries by fallen trees. Around 8,500 customers lost electricity. The public infrastructure damage assessment was around $639,000.
June 1989Tornado (F1)not stated$2,500,000no account filed
June 1980Tornado (F1)not stated$2,500,000no account filed
July 2015Flash FloodCrown City$1,000,000Many roads were flooded and closed. Damage occurred to some of those roads. Gravel roads became mud paths when the gravel was washed away. Culverts were unearthed and roads washed out. There were several water rescues from vehicles. The hardest hit area was around Centerville and Rio Grande. Basements were flooded in Gallipolis, with damage to furnaces.
June 1998HailGallipolis$750,000no account filed
March 1997Flash FloodCountywide$750,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodSouthern Portion$750,000no account filed
February 2000Flash FloodCountywide$600,000no account filed
March 1997Flash FloodCountywide$500,000no account filed
May 2001Flash FloodSouth Portion$300,000Another round of thunderstorms fell over saturated soils. Near Patriot, another 2 inches of rain was measured. According to the Ohio Emergency Management Agency, 4 homes had minor damage. There was damage to county roads, culverts, and bridges.
May 2014Flash FloodAddison$250,000Downpours were oriented northwest to southeast across Gallia County with the heaviest rain south of the Route 35 corridor. This included the Centenary area. Rains of 2.5 to 4 inches occurred between 1130E and 1330E. One automatic gauge near Northup measured 4.02 inches of rain in about 2 hours and 20 minutes. A gauge in Rio Grande measured 2.6 inches of rain.||Flash flooding occurred, centered on the Chickamauga Creek basin, including its Little Chichamauga tributary. Raccoon Creek also received much of the runoff from these downpours. Clear Fork, a small tributary to Raccoon Creek, flooded along the Router 141 corridor. This caused students from both Green Elementary School and Gallia Academy High School to be held after hours until the water receded from their access road. Urban runoff from paved surfaces quickly got inside convenience stores. Buildings in the 4H fairgrounds were flooded. The fast flowing water washed away small culverts, damaged roads, and private driveways. Basements were flooded. Vehicles were damaged by flood waters. One local farmer said he lived there his entire life and has never seen flooding like this. A woman at the University of Rio Grande said she had never seen anything like it, and it was horrible. ||Portions of several state routes were closed by flood waters, including Jackson Pike around the Holzer Medical Center and the 4H fairgrounds. Also along the Jackson Pike, water surrounded, but did not get inside about 30 mobile homes in the Park Lane trailer court. As the water was receding, state maintenance trucks used their snow plows to help push mud and debris off area roads.||Thankfully, there were no injuries according to Gallia County Sheriff Joe Browning. The Gallia County Emergency Management said besides the one business, there were 25 to 30 homes impacted, but no one contacted them for assistance.
May 1996Tornado (F1)Vinton$250,000no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodNorth Portion$200,000A rain gauge near Vinton measured 2.8 inches of rain in less than 90 minutes. The Emergency Management Agency reported several roads inundated by high water. Water was 1 to 2 feet deep on Route 160. Water was up and around several mobile homes.
June 1998HailRio Grande$200,000no account filed
May 2001Flash FloodSouth Portion$100,000Streams flooded roads in Greenfield, Walnut, and Guyan Townships. A cooperative observer west of Patriot measured a 24 hour rainfall of 3.2 inches.
June 2000Tornado (F2)Patriot$100,000The tornado touched down near Burnette Road, then moved east across Hannan Trace Road, before dissipating east of Rocky Fork Road. In the vicinity of Hannan Trace Road, the tornado width was 150 yards and destroyed 3 barns. Wooden pieces of the barn, from 1 to 5 feet in length, became projectiles. The wood was scattered about the area, with some pieces wedged into the ground. The storm was rated as an F2 in this area. Elsewhere along its path, the tornado was weaker. Two homes received minor damage. Farm equipment and one truck were also damaged.
May 2012Flash FloodSand Fork$95,000Small streams flooded roads, such as State Route 141 and 325. Several water rescues took place around Rio Grande.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Crown City$50,000An EF1 tornado with maximum winds of 95 miles per hour first touched down along Hannan Trace Road about 3 miles northeast of Crown City. Several large hardwood trees were observed uprooted in a converging pattern within a narrow ravine at the 1650 block of Hannan Trace Road. This damage extended northeastward out of the ravine and onto the nearby hillside where some damage to barns occurred from fallen trees.||In addition, the roof and exterior walls of a wood frame commercial warehouse were blown off to the south of the path along Hannan Trace Road. Given the location of this particular damage and orientation, this likely occurred from rear flank downdraft winds. ||The exact start and end path to the tornado is unknown given the rural area with which it occurred and lack of a road network within the theoretical damage track.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGallipolis$50,000A few trees were blown down from west of Gallipolis to along Route 7 in Gallipolis. One large branch fell onto a truck and also damaged a house roof.
May 2010FloodMercerville$50,000Numerous roads were flooded by small feeder streams into Raccoon Creek.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Gallipolis$50,000Fallen trees caused minor damage to about 6 buildings in the region where Route 141 and 7 enters the city from the southwest.
July 1996Flash FloodSouthern Portion$50,000no account filed
August 2012Flash FloodVinton$40,000Streams flooded roads. A vehicle was stuck in waters from Shephards White Oak Creek along UpCreek Road near Morgan Center.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindCrown City$30,000The roof and exterior walls of a wood frame commercial warehouse were blown off along Hannan Trace Road.
March 2015FloodRio Grande$30,000Small streams overflowed and blocked roads on the 4th into the 5th. Backwater from the Ohio River continued minor flooding into the 6th.
April 2014HailBlowell$30,000The large hail fell along Bullaville Road. Dents in vehicles occurred.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRio Grande$30,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGallipolis$30,000no account filed
April 2011FloodPeniel$25,000Numerous roads were closed by overflowing small streams.
May 2004Flash FloodNorth Portion$25,000Multiple thunderstorms dumped 2 to 3.75 inches of rain in less than 6 hours on terrain wet from rains the previous day. The cooperative observer at Gallipolis measured 3.73 inches. Water got into buildings in Thurman. The campground at the county fairgrounds outside of Gallipolis was evacuated.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindVinton$25,000Roof damage occurred in Huntington Township, while several trees fell down around Rio Grande.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCountywide$25,000no account filed
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBlowell$20,000Several trees were uprooted and a mobile home suffered a partial roof removal.
February 2016FloodCadmus$20,000Across the southern portion of the county, Indian Guyan Creek overflowed and closed Route 218, while Rocky Fork flooded Route 775.
June 2015Flash FloodVinton$20,000Numerous roads were closed by flooding small streams in the northern portion of the county. This included Route 160.
May 2001Flash FloodCountywide$20,000Racoon Creek and its tributaries flooded roads and bridges. Water flowed over the bridge in the community of Vinton.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGallipolis$20,000Trees were blown down from Gallipolis through Centenary and on south, into Harrison Township near Angel.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMercerville$15,000Numerous trees were damaged and uprooted across Mercerville. This resulted in damage to vehicles and homes within the community.
March 2021FloodEureka$15,000The Ohio River at the R.C. Byrd Lock and Dam rose above its 50 foot flood stage on the evening of March 2nd. The river at this location crested at 51.23 feet around sunrise on the 3rd, and returned to its banks right after midnight on March 4th. ||Route 7, which runs parallel to the river, was flooded in several spots, including at Teens Run, Chickamauga Creek, Kyger Creek, Clay Chapel, Clay School, and just above Route 218. Portions of Gallipolis began to flood while the Ohio River was above its flood stage. The Spruce Street Chickamauga Creek Bridge was closed due to flooding of low areas around the bridge.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindThurman$15,000A roof was partially blown off of a building in the town of Thurman.
April 2014HailCarlton$15,000The large hail fell along Oxyer Road.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGallipolis$15,000A section of an old roof was blown down onto a parked vehicle. A tree also was knocked down.
May 2001HailGallipolis$15,000A supercell developed over the county, ahead of the main area of showers and thunderstorms.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGallipolis$15,000Several trees were blown down in the city. One damaged a parked car.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWest Jefferson$15,000Large trees were downed. A few large tree limbs feel onto a mobile home causing some damage.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGallipolis$15,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindCrown City$10,000Out buildings were destroyed and several trees fell onto structures around Crown City.
August 2020Flash FloodMills$10,000The small creek, a fork of Chickamauga Creek, running behind the Gallia County Fairgrounds flooded. This flooded sections of the fair grounds, including the barns. The fair was beginning the next day, and animal drop off had to be delayed to allow time to clean up.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindRio Grande$10,000Many large tree branches blown down. A 1 foot diameter tree was snapped.
July 2015Flash FloodGallipolis$10,000Streams quickly rose and flooded streets. In addition, urban flash flooding occurred in the town of Gallipolis.
March 2015FloodMercerville$10,000Several small sections of roads were closed by overflowing streams. One example was along Route 850 near Bidwell.
June 2015HailVinton$10,000Golf ball size hail damaged a few vehicles.
April 2014FloodGallia$10,000Many small streams overflowed and closed roads on the 30th. Just 1 example was Dirtyface Creek flooded Route 233 near the community of Gallia. No structures were flooded.
May 2009Heavy RainHanersville$10,000The cooperative observer in Gallipolis measured 2.7 inches for the 24 hours, most of which fell in less than 2 hours.||Street flooding was seen, this included the intersection Route 558 with Bob McCormick Road.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGallipolis$10,000Large trees were knocked down in town.

Mines and quarries

7 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 7 workings inside this county. 4 still produce and 3 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction6
Stone, Crushed/Broken1
Bituminous1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Holley PitStone, Crushed/Broken, BituminousProducer
Eppling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mt Epling Gallipolis DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Queen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Queen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Collected here, 1862 to 1975

8 of 715 shown

Museum specimens collected in and around this county - inside the rectangle that bounds it - and catalogued with a date and a place: 715 of them, by kingdom 451 animalia, 150 fungi, 100 plantae, 12 chromista, 2 unrecorded. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by BPI, USNM, INHS, CM, Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), Ohio State University - Amphibian Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) among others, and each settlement page carries the specimens collected near it.

The oldest of them. A specimen proves something was collected on that day; its absence proves nothing.

Photograph YearSpecies KingdomWhere CollectorCatalogue
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimen1862Carex communis var. communisPlantaeCheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.]W. M. CanbyNY 2255689
A photograph of the species Macrhybopsis storeriana, not of this specimen1888Macrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845)AnimaliaRaccoon Island, Ohio RiverC. Gilbert & J. HenshallUSNM USNM 41029
A photograph of the species Moxostoma carinatum, not of this specimen1888Moxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)AnimaliaNear Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio RiverC. Gilbert & J. HenshallUSNM USNM 41032
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimen1888Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818AnimaliaRaccoon Island, Ohio RiverC. Gilbert & J. HenshallUSNM USNM 41035
A photograph of the species Notropis blennius, not of this specimen1888Notropis blennius (Girard, 1856)AnimaliaRaccoon Island, Ohio RiverC. Gilbert & J. HenshallUSNM USNM 41018
A photograph of the species Notropis stramineus, not of this specimen1888Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)AnimaliaRaccoon Island, Ohio RiverC. Gilbert & J. HenshallUSNM USNM 41016
A photograph of the species Percina copelandi, not of this specimen1888Percina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)AnimaliaRaccoon Island, Ohio RiverC. Gilbert & J. HenshallUSNM USNM 41022
A photograph of the species Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis, not of this specimen1891Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév.FungiPoint PleasantMillspaugh C. F.BPI BPI 198612

Every populated place in the county

91

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 1 place that was also surveyed for fire insurance comes first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

The vanished settlements of Gallia County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Recorded here

Gallipolis, Ohio

16 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases, 1885 to 1948

Everything this county holds

The complete index, with nothing left out. Each of these is a separate record with its own page: a federal survey report, or the case file that argued a property on to the National Register. Both are public domain and reproduced word for word.

Surveyed structures

3 structures

Nomination case files

7 case files

The vanished settlements of Gallia County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • 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.