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

Kimball, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oxford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44847. The Survey maps it on the Kimball quadrangle.

Kimball within Erie County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kimball, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Kimball, surveyed 1904

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.

In the 1916 county history

3,113 words on this township

The county history of 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Oxford Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Oxford Township - 3,113 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kimball between 2002 and 2002, burning about 1 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 burning	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
10 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,638 shown

Museums hold 1,638 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kimball between 1860 and 1975: 900 Animalia, 530 Plantae, 181 Fungi, 26 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Dowdy, A. Lewis, A.C. Borror 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1899	F.L. Scribner
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1900	Grover, F.O.	"Dry sandy hillside, shaded
Perca Linnaeus, 1758	1860	Smithsonian Institution	Sandusky
Vermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)	1868	No Person (Birds)	Taylor
Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)	1881	D. S. Young
Graminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous	1886	William Trelease; A. Commons	Madison
Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758	1886	Smithsonian Institution
Scolecotrichum graminis Fuckel	1886	Dr. Wm. Trelease; A. Commons	(a) Madison, Wis. (b) Faulkland, Del.
Athyrium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) Tidestr.	1888	Steele, E.S.	Milan.
Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1896	E. L. Moseley	Margaretta Ridge
Apocynum sibiricum Jacq.	1896	Watson, J.R.	North Ohio
Asclepias verticillata L.	1896	E. L. Moseley	Groton

All 1,638 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kimball: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sandusky Crushed Stone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Sandusky Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms nearby

5 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Kimball in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
November 2002	Tornado (F1)	Kimball	$500,000	A tornado moved into Erie County from Huron County to the southeast of Kimball near the intersection of Section Line Road and State Route 113. The tornado continued east northeast in the county for around five miles and dissipated north of Milan near the intersection of U.S. Highway 250 and State Route 13. Several high voltage transmission poles were toppled by the tornado in Milan Township. A few homes sustained minor damage and several barns were destroyed. Many trees were downed along the damage path which was generally 25 to 50 yards in width.
August 2007	Flood	Kimball	$150,000	Heavy rain fell across the area during the morning hours of the 20th. Rainfall reports indicate that between 2.0 and 3.0 inches of rain fell that morning across the area. The heavy rain was able to quickly make its way to local streams and rivers, but those eventually filled up through the morning hours, and excess runoff began ponding in low lying locations and roads throughout the county. By midday of the 20th, roads northeast of Bellevue to Huron gradually flooded. Flooding continued through the overnight hours into the 21st. By the morning, water eventually flooded out the Franklin Flats area. Floodwaters receded throughout the county during the midday and afternoon hours of the 21st.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Kimball	$2	Trees were downed.
April 2006	Hail	Kimball	-	Nickel size hail was observed.
June 2006	Hail	Kimball	-	Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Erie 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
North Monroeville	2.0 miles	12
Prout (historical)	2.9 miles	12
Bloomingville	3.4 miles	12
Spears Corners	4.4 miles	13
Lyme (historical)	4.5 miles	18
Avery	4.5 miles	13
Sand Hill	4.6 miles	18
Parkertown	5.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064936. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.