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.
Population over time
2 figuresVinton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 222 | |
| 2020 | 224 | +2 (+1%) |
Then and now
1906 to 1981The 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 sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1906 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Vinton quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Vinton quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1943Taken 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.
Vachon, John, 1943. Library of Congress
Fires nearby
37 since 2006The 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 burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2789 |
| 21 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15784 |
| 28 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 May 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 140 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902 | 1900 | [Not Stated] | Vinton |
![]() | Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838 | 1900 | not recorded | |
![]() | Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern | 1901 | Kellerman, W.A. | Vinton |
![]() | Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Vinton |
![]() | Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl. | 1901 | Kellerman W. A. | Vinton |
![]() | Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Vinton |
| Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1905 | Ricker P. L. | Bidwell | |
![]() | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1926 | not recorded | Gallia Co., OH |
![]() | Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Near Rodney, Springfield, Gallia Co., Ohio |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Near Rodney, Springfield, Gallia Co., Ohio |
![]() | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Little Raccoon Creek tributary, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1930 | Trautman, 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 1994The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Vinton | $250,000 | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Vinton | $40,000 | Streams flooded roads. A vehicle was stuck in waters from Shephards White Oak Creek along UpCreek Road near Morgan Center. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $25,000 | Roof damage occurred in Huntington Township, while several trees fell down around Rio Grande. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Vinton | $20,000 | Numerous roads were closed by flooding small streams in the northern portion of the county. This included Route 160. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Vinton | $10,000 | Golf ball size hail damaged a few vehicles. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $5,000 | Multiple trees were blown down between Rio Grande and Vinton. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $5,000 | Multiple trees were blown down in the village. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $5,000 | Trees were blown down. One fallen tree damaged a house. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Vinton | $5,000 | Overflowing streams closed roads. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $5,000 | Trees were downed. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $4,000 | Trees were blown down in several areas of the Vinton and Bidwell communities. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $2,000 | Trees were blown down across Route 160 and Route 325. |
| October 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinton | $1,000 | There 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 2020 | Hail | Vinton | - | Pictures showed ping pong to golf ball sized hail. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Vinton | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Vinton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Vinton | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obad (historical) | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Glen Summitt | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| Ewington | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Durgan | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Woods Mill | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Alice | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Edna (historical) | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Rowlesville | 3.8 miles | 12 |
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 Vinton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2186359 | 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 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.




















