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

North Kenova, Ohio

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Fayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45680. It stands on Ankrims Run. The Survey maps it on the Catlettsburg quadrangle.

North Kenova within Lawrence County

Then and now

1901 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Kenova, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of North Kenova, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

23 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

26 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of North Kenova between 1997 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning11
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1

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
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 June 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8485
8 April 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 1997Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryTODD COURT
5 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10326

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 801 shown

Museums hold 801 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Kenova between 1880 and 1972: 554 Animalia, 116 Fungi, 108 Plantae, 20 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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 Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.WinterMicrosphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1892W.A. KellermanSymmes Creek
Specimen of Coleosporium inconspicuum (Long) Hedgc.Coleosporium inconspicuum (Long) Hedgc.1926G. G. HedgcockIronton
A photograph of the species Eragrostis reptans, not of this specimenEragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees1880T Meehan
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBig Sandy River, near mouth
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1892W. C. WernerIronton
A photograph of the species Isoperla bilineata, not of this specimenIsoperla bilineata (Say, 1823)1899Nathan Banks
A photograph of the species Notropis blennius, not of this specimenNotropis blennius (Girard, 1856)1899Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Ice Creek, at Ironton, ~0.6 mi SW of Coal Grove, Upper township
A photograph of the species Coniothyrium fuckelii, not of this specimenConiothyrium fuckelii Sacc.1904Brooks Fred E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Venturia inaequalis, not of this specimenVenturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter1904Brooks F. E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Haematoloechus longiplexus, not of this specimenHaematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 19021905Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David ZamparoHuntington
A photograph of the species Cladosporium carpophilum, not of this specimenCladosporium carpophilum Thüm.1906C.M. Davidson
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1908BoeppleRussell's Creek, H.C. Wilkerson's Farm

All 801 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of North Kenova: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Armco Steel/ Ashland, Ky.IronUnknown
Ashland Oil/ Catlettsburg, Ky.SulfurUnknown
Burlington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Burlington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jerrys Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jerrys Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

12 since 2011

The National Weather Service names North Kenova in 12 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Kenova$25,000Widespread tree and power line damage was observed in the Proctorville area. Multiple structures suffered damage due to downed trees and strong wind gusts. A truck was overturned on the Proctorville Bridge.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Kenova$20,000A National Weather Service storm survey team found damage consistent with a microburst in South Point. The microburst began near the intersection of Jefferson Street and Roberts Drive where a couple large pine trees were uprooted. Scattered tree damage was found in a west-northwesterly direction from here for about a mile, ending on 2nd Street near the Ohio River. The worst damage was found on Williamson Street where several trees were snapped or uprooted, a fence was pushed over and a small metal outbuilding was tossed over 100 yards.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Kenova$10,000Multiple power poles were snapped along North Kenova Road in South Point.
March 2021FloodNorth Kenova$10,000The Ohio River at Huntington rose above its 50 foot flood stage during the early afternoon hours of March 2nd. The river crested at 57.99 feet around 24 hours later, then returned to its banks on the evening of March 4th. While the river was out of its banks, several areas on the Ohio side of the river flooded. These included sections of Ohio Route 52 near Chesapeake and South Point 5 miles west of the bridge at 6th Street.
February 2016Flash FloodNorth Kenova$5,000Solida Creek overflowed and caused minor flash flooding. County Route 18 was closed. School buses had to turn around.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Kenova$1,500North of Kenova, a tree blew down into power lines and blocked a local road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Kenova$1,000Trees were blown down, blocking Route 52.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Kenova$500A tree fell onto power lines along Fourth Street in South Point.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Kenova$250One tree was blown down along Country Road 1 at the intersection of Perry Hollow.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Kenova$250One tree was blown down outside of the town of South Point near Fourth Street East.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Kenova$250A tree was blown down at South Point.
June 2019HailNorth Kenova-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
South Point0.6 miles23
Brookdale2.1 miles23
Brayfield2.2 miles23
Burlington2.3 miles23
Montreal (historical)2.6 miles23
Clearview2.6 miles23
Lincoln Park2.8 miles23
Walnut Park3.1 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q122549729The 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 1062553. 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.