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Kelloggsville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44030. It stands on Ashtabula Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pierpont quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Kelloggsville within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kelloggsville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Kelloggsville, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 printed 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.

In the county-history sources

5,169 words on this township

History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This township is number twelve of the first range of townships in the Connecticut Western Reserve. It is the largest township in the county, being seven miles in length by five in width. The surface is generally level and low. The soil is a heavy clay, except a portion of the township in the vicinity of the village of Kelloggsville, where it inclines to gravel. It is watered principally by Ashtabula creek, the main branch of which flows through the southwestern portion of the township. The north branch enters the township near the northeast corner, and flows in a southwestwardly course, meeting and uniting with the main branch a short distance south of Kelloggsville. Conneaut creek flows through the northwestern part of the township. These streams afford excellent water-power, which has been taken advantage of by the settlers while clearing up the heavy forests. Saw-mills and grist-mills have been constructed on both these streams in this township.

Passage source: History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, published 1878.

Colonel Stephen Moulton, from Whitestown, Xew York, was the first white man to make a settlement in Monroe. He emigrated to this township in the year 1799, and settled on land just east of the village of Kelloggsville, on what is at present known as the Ensign farm. He erected the first log house in the township the same year, near the present site of John Wetmore's residence. He resided here for aboui two years, when he sold out his improvement to Jonathan Harrington, and moved on to a lot a short distance west of his first settlement, on land now occupied by a portion of the village of Kelloggsville. He erected a cabin here near the present site of the tannery. It is said that Colonel Moulton, when he came to this township, eloped with another man's wife, leaving behind him a family, wealth, and position in his native place. This woman soon left him, and married another man, who afterwards in turn left her.

Passage source: History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, published 1878.

Jonathan Harrington, from Pennsylvania, but originally from Rhode Island, was the second white settler in the township. He came to Monroe in 1801, buying out and settling on Colonel Moulton's first improvement. About the time Mr. Harrington settled in Monroe, or immediately after, a Mr. Wm. Moss, from Xew York State, settled just southeast of the present village of Kelloggsville, on the second lot east of the Sheffield town line. About a year after (1802) William and James Ferguson, from Virginia, originally from Carlisle, Pa., and George Ferguson from the latter place, brothers, settled in the township. William settled on a part of the same lot Mr. Harrington had taken, on the opposite side of the road. He bought his land of Judge Austin, of Austinburg. He sold his land and improvements in Monroe to Martin and Amos Kellogg, and removed to Huron county. James Ferguson settled on the flats of Ashtabula creek near the Sheffield line. He lived here but two years, when he removed to Conneaut. George settled on the south part of the same lot Mr. Harrington settled on, buying the land of Abel, a son of Jonathan Harrington.

Passage source: History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, published 1878.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Monroe Township - it names this place 20 more 20 times.

Fires near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kelloggsville in 2020, burning about 1 acre 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 burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15696
7 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15895

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashtabula County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 832 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 832 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kelloggsville between 1872 and 1975: 773 Animalia, 50 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, T.F., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, not of this specimenHymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon1872not recorded
A photograph of the species Chara Linnaeus, not of this specimenChara Linnaeus, 17531880Allen, T.F.Lakeville Conn. U.S.A
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1891J. B. Brockway
A photograph of the species Riccia fluitans, not of this specimenRiccia fluitans L.1892E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Conneaut Creek
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chelydra serpentina, not of this specimenChelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedKINGSVILLE, CONNEAUT CREEK
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta marginata Agassiz, 18571893not recordedKingsville, Conneaut Creek
A photograph of the species Culaea inconstans, not of this specimenCulaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)1893A. WoolmanConneaut Creek, Kingsville, Ohio

All 832 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Kelloggsville: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 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
Belding PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Meade Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nelson Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Skidmore & Chah PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Subway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Ashtabula County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelloggsville in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 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
May 1998HailKelloggsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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
Bushnell2.5 miles13
Monroe Center2.6 miles13
Gageville2.7 miles12
Sheffield Center3.4 miles12
Farnham3.9 miles12
Kingsville3.9 miles12
Ollins Corners4.8 miles12
Amboy4.9 miles12

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 KelloggsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14716567The 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 1065467. 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.