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

Vinton, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Elk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45651. It stands on Puncheon Fork. The Survey maps it on the McArthur quadrangle. 544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Vinton within Vinton County

Population over time

2 figures

Vinton fell from 548 to 544 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
2010548
2020544-4 (-1%)

Then and now

1905 to 1980

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 1980
Topographic sheet of Vinton, surveyed 1905

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.

Photographs

4 photographs, 1936

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.

Planting trees at Zaleski Forest Project, Vinton County, Ohio
Planting trees at Zaleski Forest Project, Vinton County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
General view. Zaleski forest project, Vinton County, Ohio
General view. Zaleski forest project, Vinton County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Planting trees at Zaleski Forest Project, Vinton County, Ohio
Planting trees at Zaleski Forest Project, Vinton County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress
Planting trees at Zaleski Forest Project, Vinton County, Ohio
Planting trees at Zaleski Forest Project, Vinton County, Ohio
Jung, Theodor, 1936. Library of Congress

Fires nearby

23 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Vinton between 2007 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
14 September 2015Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1801
28 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4647
16 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11525
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4066
8 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3634
8 March 2014Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,323 shown

Museums hold 1,323 specimens collected within 10 miles of Vinton between 1878 and 1975: 1,231 Animalia, 54 Plantae, 37 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W. 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 Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.BarrMycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr1936C. C. GreenWaterloo State Forest
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States

All 1,323 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Vinton in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 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 2020Thunderstorm WindVinton$2,000One tree was blown down along State Route 50 east of the town of McArthur.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindVinton$1,000Trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Vinton 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
Red Diamond0.8 miles15
McArthur2.2 miles13
Prattsville2.4 miles13
Elk Fork3.1 miles15
Ural (historical)3.2 miles15
Zaleski3.4 miles15
Dundas3.6 miles13
Creola5.1 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 VintonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7932904The 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 1063079. 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.