Kerr, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43793. It stands on Wheeler Run. The Survey maps it on the Lewisville quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
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.
- 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
18 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Kerr between 2012 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 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 burning | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1881 |
| 16 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5545 |
| 15 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15329 |
| 9 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15819 |
| 5 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4846 |
| 22 April 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4607 |
| 17 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4814 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 363 shownMuseums hold 363 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kerr between 1860 and 1975: 344 Animalia, 11 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Taphrina sacchari Jenkins | 1922 | O.L. Inman | Antioch College |
![]() | Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | Herbert R. Mooney | Woodsfield |
![]() | Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863 | 1968 | L. Macior | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1860 | unknown | state route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek |
![]() | Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | David M. Dennis | 3 mi. N Graysville |
| unnamed (fossil) | 1914 | Collector Unknown | Woodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest) | |
![]() | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1921 | Ortmann, Arnold E | Woodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1922 | Thompson W. H. | Woodsfield |
| Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd. | 1928 | Archer, W. A. | Greenbrier | |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township |
![]() | Natrix septemvittata (Say, 1825) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Washington Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio |
![]() | Natrix sipedon sipedon | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Clarington, Monroe Co., Ohio |
All 363 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 2011The National Weather Service names Kerr in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerr | $10,000 | Multiple trees were reported to be down along Ohio Route 800 north of Woodsville. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kerr | $5,000 | Emergency management reported trees down on State Route 78 near Woodsfield. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Kerr | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope Ridge (historical) | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Woodsfield | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Decker | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Coats | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Miltonsburg | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Griffith | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Edwina | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Ozark | 4.5 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076173. 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.






















