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Alledonia, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43902. It stands on Crabapple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Armstrongs Mills quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Alledonia within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Alledonia, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Alledonia, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1903 county history

3,013 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the first settlements, deprivations of, the pioneers, the first settlers, the population, the industries, the mineral resources.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 3,013 words.

Fires nearby

10 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Alledonia between 2011 and 2020, burning about 61 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources621
29 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources603
27 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2014Debris and open burning40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 241 shown

Museums hold 241 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alledonia between 1884 and 1975: 225 Animalia, 11 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Bertholomew, E.A., Cooke, W. B.; Cooke, V. G. 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 Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.1905J.L. SheldonNear Round Bottom
Specimen of Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.MooreDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1971Cusick, A.W.disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1884Jones, J. (Jesse)Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hylocichla mustelina, not of this specimenHylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Quiscalus quiscula, not of this specimenQuiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 18191885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Turdus migratorius, not of this specimenTurdus migratorius Linnaeus, 17661885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J.Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hirundo rustica, not of this specimenHirundo rustica Linnaeus, 17581891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)2 miles south-east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melanerpes erythrocephalus, not of this specimenMelanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)1/2 mile east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)1/2 mi east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 241 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Alledonia in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAlledonia$35,000The Department of Highways reported trees down.
October 2011FloodAlledonia$15,000Emergency management reported flooding at the junction of Route 148 and Route 145 closing the roadways.
July 2019Flash FloodAlledonia$5,000The local emergency manager reported flooding near State Route 148 in Alledonia.
January 1999Flash FloodAlledonia-A debris jam formed on Captina Creek near Alledonia, producing minor flooding onto adjacent fields and a portion of State Route 148.
June 1998Flash FloodAlledonia-Catina Creek rose out of its banks and flooded surrounding roads.
July 2012HailAlledonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Hogsink1.3 miles12
Armstrongs Mills1.9 miles12
Clover Hill3.0 miles15
Dorsey (historical)3.1 miles12
Becket (historical)4.2 miles12
Captina5.3 miles15
Centerville5.3 miles12
Kelsey (historical)5.4 miles12

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 AlledoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4731216The 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 1064312. 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.