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Rendville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43730. It stands on Eighteen Run. The Survey maps it on the Corning quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Rendville within Perry County

Population over time

2 figures

Rendville fell from 36 to 28 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201036
202028-8 (-22%)

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rendville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Rendville, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

3,203 words on this township

1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Monroe was, for many years, far from market, even with such surlus products as she had to dispose of. Athens, New Lexington and McConnellsville were the nearest markets. All this is changed now. With the building of the Ohio Central, and the establishment of stations at Rendville, Corning, Buckingham and Borbec, the people of the township have as good facilities for shipment, and for coming and going, as any others in the county. |

Passage source: 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883.

Ferrara was laid out by Nelson Rodgers and James Taylor, in 1871, at the time the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railroad was projected. The railroad failed for the time, and Ferrara has remained a paper town, or almost so, ever since. Ferrara is situated between Corning and Rendville, in a nice, conspicuous place, and several new houses have lately been erected in it. ,

Passage source: 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883.

Rendville was established by Thomas J. Smith and Wm. P. Rend, and others, in 1879, and grew with a rapidity marvelous in this section of the world, and yet very much like other mining towns of the county. Boarding houses were improvised, shafts sunk and coal works erected. Houses for miners and other workmen were put together, finished and inhabited in a space of time that would seem almost impossible.

Passage source: 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883.

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 Monroe Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Fires near this place

28 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Rendville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes2

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
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestTRUCK FIRE
5 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestALDER
11 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWayne National ForestMILLER TOWN RD
23 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestMUNCY
2 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11385
6 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWayne National ForestWATER WORKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 89 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 89 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rendville between 1890 and 1971: 64 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Coker W. C., Conan J. Taylor, Duvel, J.W.T 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 Pucciniastrum hydrangeae (Magnus) ArthurPucciniastrum hydrangeae (Magnus) Arthur1891W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Phaeoceros carolinianus, not of this specimenPhaeoceros carolinianus (Michx.) Prosk.1890W. C. WernerRendville.
A photograph of the species Anomodon attenuatus, not of this specimenAnomodon attenuatus (Hedw.) Huebener1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Anthoceros punctatus, not of this specimenAnthoceros punctatus L.1891not recordedRendville
A photograph of the species Ascocoryne cylichnium, not of this specimenAscocoryne cylichnium (Tul.) Korf1891W. A. Kellerman
Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedw.) Austin1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Callicladium haldanianum, not of this specimenCallicladium haldanianum (Grev.) H.A.Crum1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Gottsche1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Hypnum jutlandicum, not of this specimenHypnum jutlandicum Holmen & E.Warncke1891W. C. WernerRendville
Panellus stipticus (Bull.) P.Karst.1891W. A. KellermanRendville
A photograph of the species Puccinia coronata, not of this specimenPuccinia coronata f. coronata1891W. A. Kellerman
Puccinia punctata Link1891W. A. Kellerman

All 89 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rendville in 1 storm report between 2013 and 2013: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2013Thunderstorm WindRendville$10,000Trees were blown down, including on Route 70.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Corning1.2 miles14
Millertown1.4 miles14
Congo1.6 miles14
Chapel Hill2.0 miles14
Alabama Hill2.3 miles15
Hamburg (historical)2.6 miles14
Drakes2.6 miles15
Oakfield3.0 miles15

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 RendvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2195633The 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 1076726. 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.