Kennonsburg, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43773. It stands on Depue Run. The Survey maps it on the Senecaville quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
23 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Kennonsburg between 2012 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16076 |
| 5 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 May 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1301 |
| 5 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16079 |
| 4 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16082 |
| 28 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 43 shownMuseums hold 43 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kennonsburg between 1860 and 1975: 36 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Conan J. Taylor, Davis, H.A., G. Hoffman 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1860 | unknown | state route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek |
| Apidae | 1916 | not recorded | ||
![]() | Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Cuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866) | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Goniodes Nitzsch, 1818 | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Haematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Melissodes bimaculatus (Lepeletier, 1825) | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Populus tremuloides Michx. | 1922 | Davis, H.A. | Marion |
![]() | Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956 | 1929 | MB Trautman & ass't. | Seneca Fork, trib. of Wills Creek, extreme northern Marion Twp. |
![]() | Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1929 | MB Trautman | Trib. of the Seneca Fork of Wills Creek, northern Marion Twp. |
All 43 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2024The National Weather Service names Kennonsburg in 1 storm report between 2024 and 2024: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Flood | Kennonsburg | - | State Route 146 closed due to flooding along Buffalo Creek. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lashley | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Sue-Lin Acres | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Noble Cottage Area | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Lakeland | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Mud Run | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Lakeview | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Rose Addition | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Batesville | 5.0 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056372. 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.























