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

Athalia, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45669. It stands on Twomile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Athalia quadrangle. 279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Athalia within Lawrence County

Population over time

2 figures

Athalia fell from 373 to 279 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	373
2020	279	-94 (-25%)

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Athalia, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Athalia, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

57 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Athalia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 822 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 were 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 burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15245
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1822
6 May 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	BIG 7 MILE
4 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1404
7 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12865
6 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 403 shown

Museums hold 403 specimens collected within 10 miles of Athalia between 1840 and 1974: 323 Animalia, 69 Plantae, 10 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH, Beale J. M. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1892	W.A. Kellerman	Symmes Creek
Frommea obtusa (F.Strauss) Arthur	1922	Elam Bartholomew
Puccinia canaliculata (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1922	E. Bartholomew
Polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.	1840	Short, C.W.	along Ohio River
Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1900	not recorded	Guyandotte River
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1903	Beale J. M.	Guyandotte
Cladosporium carpophilum Thüm.	1906	C.M. Davidson
Coprinus Pers., 1797	1909	Sambert	Barboursville
Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)	1921	George C. Withey	Deering, 11 miles east of
Lycopus × sherardii Steele	1922	Cusick, A.W.	Riverfront Park, E of US Rt 52, city of Huntington, Huntington Quad
Percina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Symmes Creek, within Lawrence Co probably near mouth based off Fishes of Ohio map
Phenacobius mirabilis (Girard, 1856)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Symmes Creek, within Lawrence Co probably near mouth based off Fishes of Ohio map

All 403 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 Athalia: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Barboursville Clay Mfg. Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Barboursville Clay Mfg. Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

4 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Athalia in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2000	Tornado (F1)	Athalia	$200,000	The path began on County Route 12, where a trailer was destroyed. The path proceeded across County Route 42 to near Route 7. All along the path, trees were snapped off and homes received structural damage. A pole barn was destroyed on County Route 402. The storm then crossed the Ohio River and struck the Cox Landing region of Cabell County, West Virginia.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Athalia	$10,000	A metal roof was damaged, allowing water damage to a house.
April 2025	Hail	Athalia	$6,000	no account filed
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Athalia	$2,000	Trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Miller	1.4 miles	16
Platform	3.8 miles	16
Gillette	4.0 miles	19
Riverside Terrace	4.1 miles	19
Cebee	4.3 miles	15
Lakeland	4.3 miles	19
Bartramville	4.4 miles	20
Brookover Estates	4.6 miles	19

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 Athalia	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2295692	The 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 1075289. 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.