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Vinton, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45686. It stands on Robinson Run. The Survey maps it on the Vinton quadrangle. 224 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Vinton within Gallia County

Population over time

2 figures

Vinton grew from 222 to 224 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
2010222
2020224+2 (+1%)

Then and now

1906 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vinton, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Vinton, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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, 1943

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.

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Vinton Kerr (on the tractor), a local farmer hired to instruct farm labor trainees at Rio Grande College
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Vinton Kerr (on the tractor), a local farmer hired to instruct farm labor trainees at Rio Grande College
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires nearby

37 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Vinton between 2006 and 2020, burning about 250 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2789
21 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15784
28 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2007Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 140 shown

Museums hold 140 specimens collected within 10 miles of Vinton between 1900 and 1974: 80 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Bartley, F., Bryant, J.C. 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 Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 19021900[Not Stated]Vinton
Specimen of Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838Chrysops niger Macquart, 18381900not recorded
Specimen of Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.KernGymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern1901Kellerman, W.A.Vinton
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium clavipes, not of this specimenGymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck1901W. A. KellermanVinton
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1901Kellerman W. A.Vinton
A photograph of the species Uromyces hedysari-paniculati, not of this specimenUromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.1901W. A. KellermanVinton
Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.1905Ricker P. L.Bidwell
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631926not recordedGallia Co., OH
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Near Rodney, Springfield, Gallia Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Near Rodney, Springfield, Gallia Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Raccoon Creek tributary, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township

All 140 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

21 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Vinton in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 1996Tornado (F1)Vinton$250,000no account filed
August 2012Flash FloodVinton$40,000Streams flooded roads. A vehicle was stuck in waters from Shephards White Oak Creek along UpCreek Road near Morgan Center.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindVinton$25,000Roof damage occurred in Huntington Township, while several trees fell down around Rio Grande.
June 2015Flash FloodVinton$20,000Numerous roads were closed by flooding small streams in the northern portion of the county. This included Route 160.
June 2015HailVinton$10,000Golf ball size hail damaged a few vehicles.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindVinton$5,000Multiple trees were blown down between Rio Grande and Vinton.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindVinton$5,000Multiple trees were blown down in the village.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindVinton$5,000Trees were blown down. One fallen tree damaged a house.
June 2008FloodVinton$5,000Overflowing streams closed roads.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindVinton$5,000Trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindVinton$5,000Trees were downed.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindVinton$4,000Trees were blown down in several areas of the Vinton and Bidwell communities.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindVinton$2,000Trees were blown down across Route 160 and Route 325.
October 1999Thunderstorm WindVinton$2,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindVinton$2,000no account filed
April 2014Thunderstorm WindVinton$1,000A few trees were blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindVinton$1,000There was damage to multiple trees. One tree was split and several other trees had large branches broken. A wind gust to 60 mph was estimated.
April 2020HailVinton-Pictures showed ping pong to golf ball sized hail.
April 2020HailVinton-no account filed
August 2004HailVinton-no account filed
June 1998HailVinton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gallia 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
Obad (historical)2.0 miles10
Glen Summitt2.2 miles10
Ewington2.4 miles12
Durgan2.6 miles12
Woods Mill2.7 miles10
Alice3.5 miles12
Edna (historical)3.6 miles11
Rowlesville3.8 miles12

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 VintonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2186359The 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 1070977. 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.