Kennonsburg, Ohio

The 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.

1909 1994

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.

• 1909 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000

History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Kennonsburg between 2009 and 2020, burning about 67 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lashley
• Sue-Lin Acres
• Lakeland
• Mud Run
• Noble Cottage Area
• Batesville

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums 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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennonsburg in 1 storm report in 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.

Every storm recorded in Noble County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.