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Adena, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Smithfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43901. It stands on North Fork Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dillonvale quadrangle. 664 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Adena within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Adena fell from 759 to 664 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010759
2020664-95 (-13%)

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Adena, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Adena, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

9 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Adena between 2003 and 2016, burning about 26 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 burning8
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
12 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3626
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources443
10 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 93 shown

Museums hold 93 specimens collected within 10 miles of Adena between 1876 and 1964: 93 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, C.H. Kennedy, Clarence H. Kennedy 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
A photograph of the species Circus cyaneus, not of this specimenCircus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Mniotilta varia, not of this specimenMniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Taxonus pallicoxus, not of this specimenTaxonus pallicoxus1924C.H. Kennedy
Halictidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Harrisville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1927not recordedSmithfield
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631927not recordedJug Run, Smith-field, OH
Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 18631927not recordedJug Run, Smith-field, OH
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631927not recordedJug Run, Smith-field, OH
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1927not recorded"Jug Run, Smith-field, OH"""
Macrophya Dahlbom, 18351927C.H. Kennedy
Macrophya alboannulata Costa, 18591927not recorded
A photograph of the species Perlesta Banks, not of this specimenPerlesta Banks, 19061927Clarence H. KennedySmithfield

All 93 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

11 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Adena in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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
May 1996Flash FloodAdena$250,000no account filed
November 2002Thunderstorm WindAdena$15,000Parts of two roofs blown off on East Main St.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindAdena$4,000Numerous trees down on CR 36.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAdena$3,000At Adena, a tree was reported to be blown down on to a car.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAdena$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindAdena$1,000Trees downed by thunderstorm winds in Adena. A tree fell across power lines in Toronto. Large limbs were also downed.
June 2018Flash FloodAdena-Citizens of Adena reported flooding near the bridge in Adena, OH. Multiple homes had flooded yards as well.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAdena-Law enforcement reported a tree down.
August 2003Flash FloodAdena-Several creeks overflowed, flooding numerous roads in Adena and across southern part of Jefferson Co.
May 2018HailAdena-no account filed
June 2016HailAdena-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Robyville0.9 miles17
Herrick2.3 miles17
Ramsey2.7 miles17
York2.8 miles18
Startle (historical)3.3 miles17
Long Run3.4 miles17
Newell3.5 miles18
Piney Fork3.5 miles18

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 AdenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q971527The 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 1037321. 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.

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.