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Bonn, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45788. The Survey maps it on the Lower Salem quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
19,814 words on this townshipHistory of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Salem Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
At the first ox-bow are the sharply defined bluffs known as Mount Pisgah - a favorite resort for picnicers, and easily accessible by railroads. A couple of depressions in the rock resembling footprints are pointed out, doubtless to the great edification of the children at the Sunday-school picnics, as the place ''where Moses stood, to view the landscape o'er."
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
The native forests are of oak, chestnut, and kindred trees, sugar maple, walnut, beech, buckeye and the like. So far as known, Salem township is the richest in the county in coal. One seam is generally found roofed with a heavy sandstone, from which it derives its name. This deposit is undoubtedly the most extensive formation of coal in the county. On Bear creek it is thickest toward the north, having been mined when it was as thick as five feet. Thecoal in the Bowen mine, farther south, is three and a half feet thick. It was sent, as fast as mined, to the Muskingum, by means of a road up the creek, built for that purpose. But the best development of this seam is on Duck creek, especially in the hills bordering the East fork, and in different places between the two forks.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
By the beginning of 1798 Anthony Perkins had moved into lot No. 116, just south of the present village of Bonn. Three years later, William Perkins moved into the adjoining farm where his son Ezra now lives. He died in 1816, aged about fifty-five. His wife, Elizabeth Oatly, died in 1816, being in the neighborhood of fiftythree years of age.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Salem Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.
Fires near this place
9 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Bonn between 2015 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2016 | Other causes | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5625 |
| 16 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5405 |
| 5 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 710 |
| 20 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15706 |
| 15 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 890 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 642 |
| 24 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7307 |
| 24 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Wayne National Forest | REED |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,260 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,260 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bonn between 1853 and 1975: 1,192 Animalia, 40 Fungi, 26 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Drew, A. L. McElhose 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr. | 1923 | W.G. Stoner | Marietta |
 | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1932 | C. May | Marietta |
 | Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers. | 1932 | L.W.R.J. | Nursery, Marietta |
 | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1853 | E. Andrews | Marietta, Ohio |
 | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
| Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta | |
 | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900) | 1879 | W. Holden | Ohio River, Near Marietta |
 | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | 1883 | Albert Hazen Wright | Marietta |
All 1,260 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonn in 1 storm report between 2025 and 2025: 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Flood | Bonn | - | Duck Creek below Whipple exceeded a bankfull level of 12 feet on the morning of February 16th. The creek continued to rise to a crest near 15 feet that night, then returned to its banks the afternoon of the 17th. While the creek was out of its banks, low sections of Route 821, the intersection of Kohl and Whipple Run Roads, Route 16 above Stanleyville, and agricultural fields around Whipple all flooded. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whipple | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Lower Salem | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Warner | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Gasville | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Stanleyville | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Dalzell | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Rainbow | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Germantown | 5.1 miles | 15 |
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 Bonn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q892680 | 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 1062655. 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.