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Irondale, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43932. It stands on Salt Run. The Survey maps it on the Wellsville quadrangle. 326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Irondale within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Irondale fell from 387 to 326 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.

YearPeople Change
2010387
2020326-61 (-16%)

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 Irondale, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Irondale, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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

19 since 2000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Irondale between 2000 and 2017, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 208
2 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4129
16 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4609
13 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2530
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3711
9 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3707

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 274 shown

Museums hold 274 specimens collected within 10 miles of Irondale between 1890 and 1974: 190 Animalia, 60 Plantae, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A.W. Cusick, Acker, G. 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 Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Pleurobema cordatum, not of this specimenPleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Dean, G WOhio River, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Glomerella rufomaculans, not of this specimenGlomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spauld. & H.Schrenk1904Sheldon J. L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Panicum virgatum, not of this specimenPanicum virgatum L.1909Vickers, E.W.near Wellsville, Ohio, WV bank of Ohio River
A photograph of the species Spartina pectinata, not of this specimenSpartina pectinata Bosc ex Link1909Vickers, E.W.WV side of Ohio River across river from Wellsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Yellow Creek, within Saline township, near Irondale, Saline township

All 274 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Irondale: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Iron City Plant and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Iron City Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dando MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Dando MineClayPast Producer
H.K. Porter Brick PlantClayPast Producer
Irondale MineClayProducer
Irondale Works MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Standard Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Standard Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms nearby

10 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Irondale in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2008FloodIrondale$50,000Law enforcement reported evacuation of residents in Irondale and Hammondsville due to flooding.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindIrondale$25,000Amateur radio reported large trees down near Irondale.
July 2005Flash FloodIrondale$5,000Flooding and mud slide.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindIrondale$3,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindIrondale$1,000A tree was reported to be blown down on Broadway Street.
May 2024Tornado (EF2)Irondale-A supercell thunderstorm, embedded within a broken line of thunderstorms, produced a series of tornadoes as it tracked across eastern Ohio, the northern West Virginia panhandle, and western Pennsylvania during the early morning hours on May 8th.||The most significant tornado developed across northwest Jefferson County, Ohio around 12:54 AM, along County Highway 55. Initially, it snapped and uprooted numerous hardwood trees. As the tornado moved east along Highway 55, it took roofs off multiple homes, overturned and tossed a mobile home, and shifted a single family residence off its foundation. The twister then moved into the center of Irondale, where numerous hardwood and softwood trees were uprooted and snapped, all consistent with EF-2 damage. The tornado was able to descend and climb through steep terrain, with hundreds of trees observed damaged or destroyed from the Highway 55 ridge line and along a steep several hundred foot escarpment. Several trees fell onto homes causing damage. A metal building system lost its roof and part of the side walls. The tornado continued to move east causing downed trees along State Route 213 in Hammondsville, eastward to the Ohio river.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindIrondale-A 911 Call Center reported multiple trees down.
April 2007HailIrondale-Emergency management reported quarter size hail in Irondale.
April 2013HailIrondale-no account filed
March 2011HailIrondale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Cream City0.7 miles22
Hammondsville1.4 miles22
Yellow Creek3.1 miles22
New Somerset4.0 miles22
Holt4.3 miles13
Port Homer5.0 miles22
Sugar Grove5.7 miles22
Knoxville6.0 miles23

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 IrondaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2122573The 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 1064888. 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.