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

Ewington, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45686. It stands on Robinson Run. The Survey maps it on the Wilkesville quadrangle.

Ewington within Gallia County

Then and now

1905 to 1980

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 Ewington, surveyed 1980

Topographic sheet of Ewington, 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.

Fires nearby

28 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ewington between 2006 and 2016, burning about 179 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	13
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
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
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
2 April 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4265

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 93 shown

Museums hold 93 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ewington between 1900 and 1974: 35 Plantae, 34 Animalia, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartley, F., Bryant, J.C., C. H. Jones 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
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
Agrostis L.	1935	C. H. Jones	Salem Twp.

All 93 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Ewington in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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
March 2008	Heavy Rain	Ewington	1 killed, $5,000	A man drowned along a swollen Racoon Creek and a low spot along Route 325 near the village of Vinton. Otherwise, county officials reported no flooding. \|\|According to a state report, the driver drove partially into water covering the road, but then backed out. This was at night. The driver then pulled into a nearby driveway and asked the property owner if he thought he could make it through the water. The property owner told the driver that if he could see the edge lines, he should be okay. The driver then proceeded to drive into the water, where his pickup truck was caught by the current and swept downstream. The driver was able to get out of his truck. The property owner ran over to try to help, offering a long stick to the driver, telling him to swim toward it. The driver was unable to make it. His body was recovered a few hours later.
August 2008	Flash Flood	Ewington	$3,000	Shepards White Oak Creek flooded County Route 115, which is also known as Upcreek Road. The headwater areas of White Oak and Kyger Creeks flooded portions of Route 554. \|\|No structures were affected and nobody drove their vehicles into the high water.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Ewington	-	Water was observed over State Route 160 just north of McGee Road.
May 1995	Hail	Ewington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gallia 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
Durgan	0.7 miles	12
Alice	1.3 miles	12
Vinton	2.4 miles	10
Obad (historical)	3.4 miles	10
Rowlesville	3.7 miles	12
Edna (historical)	3.9 miles	11
Glen Summitt	4.6 miles	10
Morgan Center	4.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048716. 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.