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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Kennvale, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Nile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45684. It stands on Mundy Run. The Survey maps it on the Pond Run quadrangle.

Kennvale within Scioto County

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kennvale, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Kennvale, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1903 county history

7,646 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Nile Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Nile Township - 7,646 words.

Fires nearby

55 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Kennvale between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,690 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony4
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
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAPPLE TREE/ SR 784
17 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySOCS DR.
14 July 1999Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 May 1997Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning39 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHULTZ RDG #2
24 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,865 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesSHAWNEE COMPLEX
24 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 851 shown

Museums hold 851 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kennvale between 1884 and 1975: 723 Animalia, 87 Plantae, 36 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A.J. Sharp, Anson A. Hinkley 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 Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884H. MoresScioto River
Specimen of Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 18291896not recordedScioto River
Specimen of Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 18201909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Pond Run, Portsmouth
A photograph of the species Campeloma Rafinesque, not of this specimenCampeloma Rafinesque, 18191885Ch. R. OrcuttScioto River
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Sympetrum Newman, not of this specimenSympetrum Newman, 18331897J. HinePortsmouth
A photograph of the species Sympetrum obtrusum, not of this specimenSympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)1897J. HinePortsmouth
Specimen of Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque, 1820)Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Portsmouth
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPortsmouth, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias kleiniana, not of this specimenCyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)1910Ortmann, Arnold EPortsmouth
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1910Ortmann, Arnold EPortsmouth
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1910Ortmann, Arnold EPortsmouth

All 851 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2023

The National Weather Service names Kennvale in 1 storm report between 2023 and 2023: 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 2023Thunderstorm WindKennvale$3,000A few trees were downed on Tipton Lane.

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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
Pond Run1.2 miles13
Friendship4.1 miles14
McGaw4.7 miles13
Dennis5.1 miles14
Camp Oyo5.4 miles13
Sugar Grove5.9 miles14
Buena Vista6.7 miles13
Alexandria7.0 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122565750The 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 1042227. 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.