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

Kitchen, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45656. It stands on Dicks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gallia quadrangle.

Kitchen within Jackson County

Then and now

1912 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kitchen, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Kitchen, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1936

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Kitchen table seen through window of rehabilitation client's home, Jackson County, Ohio
Kitchen table seen through window of rehabilitation client's home, Jackson County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress

Fires nearby

44 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Kitchen between 2006 and 2019, burning about 82 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestSTATE RT 140 #1 FIRE
24 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8586
7 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 131 shown

Museums hold 131 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kitchen between 1932 and 1974: 101 Fungi, 16 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Bartley, F., Beach, S. (Sam) 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 Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De ToniCyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni1936Cooke, William BridgeDark Hollow
Specimen of Daedalea ambigua Berk.Daedalea ambigua Berk.1936Cooke, William BridgeDark Hollow
Specimen of Trametes robiniophila MurrillTrametes robiniophila Murrill1936Cooke, William BridgeDark Hollow
A photograph of the species Enteridium rozeanum, not of this specimenEnteridium rozeanum (Rostaf.) Wingate, 18891932Cooke, William BridgeDark Hollow
A photograph of the species Leptotus muscigenus, not of this specimenLeptotus muscigenus (Bull.) Maire1932Cooke, William BridgeDark Hollow
A photograph of the species Mycena alcalina, not of this specimenMycena alcalina (Fr.) P.Kumm.1932Cooke, William BridgeDark Hollow
A photograph of the species Mycena corticola, not of this specimenMycena corticola (Pers.) Gray1932Cooke, William BridgeDark Hollow
A photograph of the species Perenniporia ohiensis, not of this specimenPerenniporia ohiensis (Berk.) Ryvarden1932W. B. CookeDark Hollow, Loveland
A photograph of the species Phlebia radiata, not of this specimenPhlebia radiata Fr.1932Cooke, William BridgeDark Hollow
A photograph of the species Radulum Fr., not of this specimenRadulum Fr.1932Cooke, William BridgeDark Hollow
A photograph of the species Rigidoporus crocatus, not of this specimenRigidoporus crocatus (Pat.) Ryvarden1932W. B. CookeDark Hollow, Loveland
Chlorociboria Seaver ex C.S.Ramamurthi, Korf & L.R.Batra1936Cooke, William BridgeLittle Salt Creek

All 131 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kitchen: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
A.P. Green Refractories Co. PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Cedar Heights Clay PitsClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Cedar Heights Clay PitsClayProducer
Davis Brick Plant #2Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms nearby

1 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Kitchen in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Flash FloodKitchen$1,000Dick's Creek flooded, causing the closure of C H and D Road in southern Jackson County.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Hitchcock2.0 miles10
Oak Hill2.3 miles10
McKitterick (historical)2.7 miles10
Blackfork Junction3.1 miles11
Pyro3.8 miles10
Horeb4.4 miles10
Monroe4.7 miles10
Clay4.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076187. 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.