Kilvert, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45778. It stands on Herrold Run. The Survey maps it on the Stewart quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 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.
- 1904 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
20 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Kilvert between 2006 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 1 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5926 |
| 30 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7290 |
| 29 March 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15553 |
| 29 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15542 |
| 23 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7450 |
| 21 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 425 shownMuseums hold 425 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kilvert between 1896 and 1975: 333 Animalia, 50 Plantae, 38 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813 | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Athens County |
![]() | Ribes L. | 1969 | Dr. Wm. G. Gambill Jr. | 0.25 miles east of Mill Street Bridge on Harmony Road. |
![]() | Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc. | 1896 | Selby, A.D. | Caananville |
![]() | Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta | 1902 | Morse, M. (Max) | Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1908 | A. D. Selby | Sharpsburg |
![]() | Colletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson | 1918 | Selby A. D. | Athens Co. |
![]() | Cynips Linnaeus, 1758 | 1928 | A. C. Kinsey | Coolville |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
| Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib. of Hocking River; extreme E Ames Twp. | |
![]() | Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
All 425 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076181. 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.
























