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

Pond Run, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Nile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45684. It stands on Pond Run. The Survey maps it on the Pond Run quadrangle.

Pond Run within Scioto County

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pond Run, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Pond Run, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 county-history sources

7,646 words on this township

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Nile Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The beautiful and fertile Ohio Valley extends the entire length of the township and makes one of the most productive farming regions in the county. Some valuable farm land lies along Turkey Creek, Pond Run and Twin Creek. The Creek and Valley region contains the population and very little farming is done elsewhere. The creeks named take their beginning within the northern border of the township, and have a rapid fall to the Ohio Valley. The hills descend precipitously to the valley below and present a long line of rocky prominences. The country back from the river and away from the above named creeks is very rough and broken, and not adapted to tillage. Recently a drove of three hundred Angora goats was turned loose in this region as an experiment.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

The first school taught in the township was taught about 1814. Now there are nine districts in the township, outside of Buena Vista. They were laid out in 1840. No. 1, is known as the Friendship school and has a two room frame building. Two teachers are employed, salaries of $40 and $35 per month. No. 2, is the Pond Run School. The salary of the teacher is $37.50 per- month. No. 3, is known as the Leatherwood School. The salary of the teacher is $37 .50 per month. No. 4, is known as the Elm Tree. It has a modern two-story frame building with a beautiful spreading elm standing in front. The salaries of the teachers are $40 and $35 per month.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Nile Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Pond Run between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,535 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	APPLE TREE/ SR 784
22 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9147
14 July 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 May 1997	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15618
28 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 April 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,865 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	SHAWNEE COMPLEX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 905 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 905 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pond Run between 1884 and 1975: 772 Animalia, 92 Plantae, 36 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A.J. Sharp, Anson A. Hinkley 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
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1884	H. Mores	Scioto River
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829	1896	not recorded	Scioto River
Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820	1909	Bureau of Fisheries	Ohio River, Pond Run, Portsmouth
Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819	1885	Ch. R. Orcutt	Scioto River
Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)	1897	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
Sympetrum Newman, 1833	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth
Sympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth
Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque, 1820)	1909	Bureau of Fisheries	Ohio River, Portsmouth
Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820	1909	not recorded	Portsmouth, Ohio River
Cyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
Cyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth

All 905 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pond Run in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Pond Run	$3,000	Several trees were downed onto U.S. Route 52 at Pond Run Road.
September 2016	Hail	Pond Run	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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
Kennvale	1.2 miles	13
Friendship	2.9 miles	14
Dennis	4.0 miles	14
Camp Oyo	4.5 miles	13
Sugar Grove	4.8 miles	14
McGaw	5.5 miles	13
Alexandria	5.9 miles	14
Shannoah Town (historical)	6.0 miles	14

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 Pond Run	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698493	The 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 1057934. 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.

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.