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

Kilgore, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Loudon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44615. The Survey maps it on the Scio quadrangle.

Kilgore within Carroll County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kilgore, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Kilgore, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires nearby

14 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Kilgore between 2003 and 2018, burning about 53 acres in total. None 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12705
23 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12909
12 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources820
12 April 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 223 shown

Museums hold 223 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kilgore between 1896 and 1975: 181 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.W. Cusick, Allen, E. J., Ash, G. (Gail), Buchanan, F. W. (Forrest W.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) 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 Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Xylaria cubensis, not of this specimenXylaria cubensis (Mont.) Fr.1924Leonard E. C.Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Hemidactylium scutatum, not of this specimenHemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon richmondi, not of this specimenPlethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 19381930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
Pseudacris brachyphona (Cope, 1889)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pseudacris crucifer, not of this specimenPseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio

All 223 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Kilgore in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindKilgore$50,000An NWS storm survey found a front porch broken off a home and the roof lifted...with damage to outbuildings and a grain silo.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindKilgore$25,000Law enforcement reported a large tree down blocking traffic across SR 9 in Kilgore.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindKilgore$3,000Trees were reported to be blown down along County Route 395.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindKilgore$2,000Law enforcement reported multiple trees down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindKilgore$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
April 2002HailKilgore-no account filed
August 1996HailKilgore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Dutch Corners3.8 miles16
Harlem Springs3.9 miles16
Perrysville4.9 miles12
Waterloo5.1 miles16
Toots Crossroads6.2 miles16
Petersburgh6.8 miles16
Hickory Grove7.2 miles16
Pigtown7.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064934. 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.