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Kiousville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43143. The Survey maps it on the Big Plain quadrangle. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Kiousville within Madison County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kiousville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kiousville, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 1883 county history

5,606 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fairfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fairfield Township - 5,606 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 454 shown

Museums hold 454 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kiousville between 1885 and 1975: 363 Animalia, 55 Fungi, 34 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, Betz, E., Bogue, E.E. 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 Physcia syncolla Tuck. ex Nyl.Physcia syncolla Tuck. ex Nyl.1893Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Caloplaca sideritis (Tuck.) Zahlb.Caloplaca sideritis (Tuck.) Zahlb.1894E. BogueGeorgesville.
Specimen of Anaptychia comosa (Eschw.) A.Massal.Anaptychia comosa (Eschw.) A.Massal.1895Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Chiloscyphus ascendens, not of this specimenChiloscyphus ascendens (Wilson & Hook.) Sull.1885W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1889Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)London, Madison, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Lophocolea heterophylla, not of this specimenLophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Tortella humilis, not of this specimenTortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Anomodon minor, not of this specimenAnomodon minor (Hedw.) Lindb.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Hedwigia ciliata, not of this specimenHedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1891W. C. WernerGeorgesville
Leskea gracilescens Hedw.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Andropogon gerardi, not of this specimenAndropogon gerardi Vitman1892Werner, W.C.Georgeville

All 454 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Kiousville: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Skyview Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Skyview Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Van Camp Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Van Camp Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West Jefferson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms nearby

6 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Kiousville in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 4 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindKiousville$25,000A barn was destroyed.
April 2012HailKiousville$5,000Hail damage occurred to a law enforcement vehicle.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKiousville$4,000A large tree fell onto some power lines.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindKiousville$2,000A tree was downed across State Route 56.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKiousville$1,000A large tree fell into the roadway.
August 2021HailKiousville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
McKendree1.4 miles11
Nioga (historical)1.6 miles11
Antioch2.5 miles11
Big Plain2.9 miles11
Chrisman4.8 miles11
McClimansville4.9 miles10
Mount Sterling5.6 miles10
Chenoweth5.6 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on KiousvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14716570The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070802. 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.

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.