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

Kimberly, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45764. It stands on Minkers Run. The Survey maps it on the Nelsonville quadrangle.

Kimberly within Athens County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kimberly, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Kimberly, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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

97 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Kimberly between 1994 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 were 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	35
Recreation and ceremony	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Other causes	5
Natural	2
Smoking	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
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	180
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BYERS RD
26 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	SNAKE HOLLOW
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	MONK RD FIRE
20 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	LOOP
9 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	FALSE ALARM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,045 shown

Museums hold 1,045 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kimberly between 1896 and 1975: 892 Animalia, 104 Plantae, 43 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens
Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr	1936	C. C. Green	Waterloo State Forest
Ambrosia bidentata Michx.	1969	William G. Gambill Jr.
Perlesta Banks, 1906	1898	N. Roberts
Diospyros virginiana L.	1899	A. D. Selby	Marshfield
Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Melasmia Lév., 1846	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Athens
Erasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)	1905	not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)	1905	H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura ardens (McAtee, 1920)	1905	H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura campora (Robinson, 1924)	1905	not recorded

All 1,045 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Kimberly: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Nutter Bros Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Nutter Brothers Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nutter Brothers Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Gravel Plant 2 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Gravel Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kimberly Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kimberly Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lake Hope Asphalt S&G Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nelsonville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nelsonville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Athens County

Storms nearby

4 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Kimberly in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 7 injuries. 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
September 2010	Tornado (EF2)	Kimberly	7 hurt, $750,000	A tornado touchdown was along Kimberly Road, about 4 miles from Nelsonville. The tornado reached maximum intensity along Matheny Road to State Route 691. Matheny Road is also called York Township Road 269. Damage was concentrated along Matheny Road and State Route 691. The low level circulation was evident in the damage along Matheny Road. Debris was strewn one way on the south side of the road, then in the opposite direction on the north side. One resident said, you could see stuff flying through the air. Then the noise got real loud and we ran into the house and into a closet. The house was just shaking. Several mobile homes were completely destroyed. Yet, some of these mobile homes were poorly anchored or not anchored at all. Many large softwood trees were uprooted or snapped at their trunks. Reports were received of several cows being lifted by the tornado. A hay bale weighing 1800 pounds was lofted into the air and set back down. The maximum wind gusts were estimated at 120 to 130 mph. A total of 7 people were injured. About 13 homes were destroyed, with dozens of other homes damaged.\|\|Since 1950, this is only the second confirmed tornado in Athens County. The previous tornado was a F1 during May of 1980. However, prior to 1950, 3 tornadoes have been reported in Athens County, back in July of 1896, April of 1922, and June of 1937. The June 1937 tornado killed 3. The storm in 1896 was reported in Glouster. However, historical accounts also describe a tornado in the late 1800s that destroyed a large grove of sycamore trees in the city of Athens.
October 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Kimberly	$10,000	A very weak tornado touched down near Nelsonville, along Cullison Road, where it lofted a trampoline into power lines and blew around some loose pieces of sheet metal. Additional damage occurred near the end of the path, along Kimberly Road. Here, several trees were uprooted or snapped, with one falling onto a house, penetrating the roof. The survey found all of the trees that fell were diseased or weakly rooted. Also in this area, a metal carport was tossed into the woods. The estimated maximum wind speed was 55 mph. A video of the tornado was taken near Cullison Road, showing a rotating funnel above the ground, with the trampoline and sheet metal being picked up and thrown as it passed over.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kimberly	$500	A tree was downed onto Minkers Run Road near the city of Nelsonville.
August 2009	Funnel Cloud	Kimberly	-	Strong rotation was remotely detected by weather radar. A tornado warning was in effect, but the funnel cloud did not reach the ground.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Doanville	1.4 miles	21
New Floodwood	1.7 miles	21
Glen Ebon	2.1 miles	21
Nelsonville	2.3 miles	21
Connett	2.4 miles	16
Bessemer	2.8 miles	21
Buchtel	3.0 miles	21
Hamley Run	3.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076182. 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.