Kensington, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 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.

• 1905 USGS Salineville quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Kensington quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Kensington quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Kensington quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Kensington quadrangle1:24000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Hanover 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 9 fires within 5 miles of Kensington between 2003 and 2019, burning about 47 acres in total. None 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:

• Hanoverton
• Dungannon
• Lynchburg
• Millport
• Adair
• East Rochester

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 414 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kensington between 1878 and 1975: 266 Animalia, 146 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Mac Gillivroy, Adler, K. K., 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Mesolobus mesolobus (Norwood & Pratten, 1855) (fossil)	1962	K. D. Fosnaught, Jim L. Murphy	E side Rt 164, S of Little Beaver Creek at Lisbon, Center Township
	Tringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1878	Collector(s): Leonard R. Freeman	Ohio Valley
	Polistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763)	1889	A. D. Mac Gillivroy	Salineville
	Polistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)	1889	not recorded	Salineville
	Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson, 1840)	1891	not recorded
	Bombus ashtoni (Cresson, 1864)	1892	unknown	Salineville
	Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1892	not recorded	Salineville
	Megachile mendica Cresson, 1878	1892	unknown	Salineville
	Viola L.	1897	Holzinger, J.M.	Winona County.
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1901	United States Bureau of Fisheries	Ohio, Cold Run, Columbiana County
	Leuciscus elongatus Valenciennes, 1844	1901	E. B. Williamson	Cold Run
	Cronartium ribicola A.Dietr.	1911	Hicks H.	Winona

All 414 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kensington in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2001: 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Columbiana County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064926. 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.