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Devola, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Muskingum Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45750. It stands on Devol Run. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle. 2,639 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Devola within Washington County

Population over time

3 figures

Devola fell from 2,771 to 2,639 between 2000 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
20002,771
20102,652-119 (-4%)
20202,639-13 (-0%)

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Devola, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Devola, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Muskingum township, in the words of 1902.

1902, Muskingum Township

Other Mills

of various kinds have been erected from time to time. In 1807, Captain Devol erected a very large frame flouring mill near where the present mill now stands. Its large under shot wheel is said to have been more than forty feet in diameter, it being the largest mill wheel ever seen in the west. The mill did a fair business, but with the lapse of years was allowed to fall into decay.

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In the 1902 county history

19,776 words on this township

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Muskingum Township covers the township in embryo, boundaries defined in 1861 by legislative act, part of union annexed, the muskingum''s influence on physical features, wolves troublesome, piscatorial amusements.

Read the chapter on Muskingum Township - 19,776 words.

Fires nearby

5 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Devola between 2015 and 2020, burning about 9 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 burning3
Other causes1
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
8 September 2016Other causes5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5625
19 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15839
5 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources710
27 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15105
18 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12106

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,319 shown

Museums hold 1,319 specimens collected within 10 miles of Devola between 1853 and 1975: 1,224 Animalia, 50 Fungi, 43 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.1923W.G. StonerMarietta
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1932C. MayMarietta
Specimen of Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.1932L.W.R.J.Nursery, Marietta
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1853E. AndrewsMarietta, Ohio
A photograph of the species Actinonaias carinata, not of this specimenActinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1879W. HoldenOhio River, Near Marietta
A photograph of the species Necturus maculosus, not of this specimenNecturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)1886Georg BaurMarietta
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Pimephales vigilax, not of this specimenPimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Shufeldt, R.Marietta

All 1,319 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Devola: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Chromium, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Marietta SmelterManganese, ChromiumPlant
Union Carbide/ Marietta, OhioIron, ManganeseProducer
Muskingum River Plant No 5 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Number 3 Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Union Slag No. 2 Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms nearby

6 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Devola in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDevola$60,000Trees and power lines were blown down, damaging at least 4 homes and 2 vehicles, in the Lower Muskingum River Valley communities of Devola, Oak Grove, and Marietta.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDevola$250A tree and nearby large tree limbs were blown down onto a road in the town of Devola.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindDevola-Two 12 inch diameter sycamore trees snapped.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDevola-Trees were blown down.
October 2016HailDevola-no account filed
May 2002HailDevola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Alden1.4 miles16
Rainbow1.6 miles17
Oak Grove1.8 miles17
Unionville1.9 miles17
Muskingum Terrace2.4 miles17
Rathbone2.6 miles17
Riverdale2.7 miles17
Rathbone Heights2.9 miles17

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 DevolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2482625The 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 1085460. 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.