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Kanauga, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Gallipolis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It stands on George Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gallipolis quadrangle. 185 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.

Kanauga within Gallia County

Population over time

2 figures

Kanauga grew from 175 to 185 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
2010175
2020185+10 (+6%)

Then and now

1908 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kanauga, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Kanauga, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

54 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Kanauga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks2

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
15 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryREDMOND RIDGE ROAD
9 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryWHITE RD.
17 July 1999Debris and open burning16 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryPRIVATE FARM RD
15 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryKRODEL POND
22 June 1999Fireworksunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPT. PLEASANT
9 April 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPUMPKIN RUN
8 April 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPUMPKIN RUN
7 April 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 2 & 62

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 334 shown

Museums hold 334 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kanauga between 1862 and 1973: 160 Animalia, 118 Fungi, 42 Plantae, 12 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer, W. A., Babcocks D. O., C. Gilbert & J. Henshall 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
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis var. communis1862W. M. CanbyCheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Macrhybopsis storeriana, not of this specimenMacrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Moxostoma carinatum, not of this specimenMoxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallNear Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis blennius, not of this specimenNotropis blennius (Girard, 1856)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis stramineus, not of this specimenNotropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Percina copelandi, not of this specimenPercina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis, not of this specimenColeosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces hedysari-paniculati, not of this specimenUromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces trifolii, not of this specimenUromyces trifolii (R.Hedw.) Lév., 18471891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
unnamed1900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 334 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kanauga: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Eppling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mt Epling Gallipolis DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gallia County

Storms nearby

2 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Kanauga in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKanauga$250Several trees were blown down near the Silver Memorial Bridge.
October 2018HailKanauga-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gilmore Heights0.4 miles16
Mapleshade2.1 miles16
Addison3.0 miles15
Tara Estates3.2 miles15
Grandview Estates3.2 miles16
Lawnview3.4 miles16
Westbrook Village3.5 miles16
Hanersville3.6 miles16

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 KanaugaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5957849The 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 1076164. 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.