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

Edna, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45686. It stands on Keeton Run. The Survey maps it on the Rio Grande quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Edna within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Edna (historical), surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Edna (historical), surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

32 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Edna (historical) between 2006 and 2019, burning about 137 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 burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	2789
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15269
21 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 June 2007	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 June 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 123 shown

Museums hold 123 specimens collected within 10 miles of Edna (historical) between 1900 and 1974: 60 Animalia, 39 Plantae, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Bartley, F., Bryant, J.C. 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
Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902	1900	[Not Stated]	Vinton
Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838	1900	not recorded
Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern	1901	Kellerman, W.A.	Vinton
Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Vinton
Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1901	Kellerman W. A.	Vinton
Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Vinton
Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.	1905	Ricker P. L.	Bidwell
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1926	not recorded	Gallia Co., OH
Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek tributary, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
Ictalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
Caprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 1812	1932	Long, C. F.	Vinton, Ohio, USA

All 123 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Obad (historical)	1.9 miles	10
Durgan	3.3 miles	12
Vinton	3.6 miles	10
Alice	3.9 miles	12
Ewington	3.9 miles	12
Woods Mill	4.4 miles	10
Glen Summitt	4.8 miles	10
Thurman	5.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067557. 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.