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.
Then and now
1912 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1912 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 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.
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Gallia quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Gallia quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Gallia quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Gallia quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1936Taken 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.
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Fires nearby
44 since 2006The 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 burning | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | STATE RT 140 #1 FIRE |
| 24 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8586 |
| 7 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.9 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 131 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Dark Hollow |
![]() | Daedalea ambigua Berk. | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Dark Hollow |
![]() | Trametes robiniophila Murrill | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Dark Hollow |
![]() | Enteridium rozeanum (Rostaf.) Wingate, 1889 | 1932 | Cooke, William Bridge | Dark Hollow |
![]() | Leptotus muscigenus (Bull.) Maire | 1932 | Cooke, William Bridge | Dark Hollow |
![]() | Mycena alcalina (Fr.) P.Kumm. | 1932 | Cooke, William Bridge | Dark Hollow |
![]() | Mycena corticola (Pers.) Gray | 1932 | Cooke, William Bridge | Dark Hollow |
![]() | Perenniporia ohiensis (Berk.) Ryvarden | 1932 | W. B. Cooke | Dark Hollow, Loveland |
![]() | Phlebia radiata Fr. | 1932 | Cooke, William Bridge | Dark Hollow |
![]() | Radulum Fr. | 1932 | Cooke, William Bridge | Dark Hollow |
![]() | Rigidoporus crocatus (Pat.) Ryvarden | 1932 | W. B. Cooke | Dark Hollow, Loveland |
| Chlorociboria Seaver ex C.S.Ramamurthi, Korf & L.R.Batra | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Little Salt Creek |
All 131 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
4 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green Refractories Co. Plant | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Cedar Heights Clay Pits | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Cedar Heights Clay Pits | Clay | Producer | ||
| Davis Brick Plant #2 | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
1 since 2017The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Kitchen | $1,000 | Dick's Creek flooded, causing the closure of C H and D Road in southern 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hitchcock | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Oak Hill | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| McKitterick (historical) | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Blackfork Junction | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Pyro | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Horeb | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Monroe | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Clay | 4.7 miles | 10 |
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.





















