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Armstrongs Mills, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43933. It stands on Anderson Run. The Survey maps it on the Armstrongs Mills quadrangle.

Armstrongs Mills within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Armstrongs Mills, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Armstrongs Mills, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1903 county history

3,013 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the first settlements, deprivations of, the pioneers, the first settlers, the population, the industries, the mineral resources.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 3,013 words.

Fires nearby

15 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Armstrongs Mills between 2010 and 2020, burning about 68 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12565
30 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources621
29 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources603
27 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2017Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7609
23 March 2014Debris and open burning40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 918 shown

Museums hold 918 specimens collected within 10 miles of Armstrongs Mills between 1829 and 1975: 581 Plantae, 225 Animalia, 111 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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 Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829Racodium E.M.Fries, 18291829J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 17631839J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.1905J.L. SheldonNear Round Bottom
A photograph of the species Persicaria virginiana, not of this specimenPersicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.1835E. WilkinsonOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1837B. FrankOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sullivantii, not of this specimenCarex × sullivantii Boott1842W. S. SullivantOhio
A photograph of the species Homalothecium subcapillatum, not of this specimenHomalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull.1843D. Sullivan
A photograph of the species Euphorbia maculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia maculata L.1844S. B. MeadOhio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Carex gracilescens, not of this specimenCarex gracilescens Steud.1847G. B. AshcroftOhio
A photograph of the species Carex stricta, not of this specimenCarex stricta Lam.1853E. L. MoseleyOhio
A photograph of the species Cylindrothecium seductrix, not of this specimenCylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull.1863D. Sullivan

All 918 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Armstrongs Mills: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Point QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, BituminousProducer

Every working recorded in Belmont County

Storms nearby

2 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Armstrongs Mills in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 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
August 1997Thunderstorm WindArmstrongs Mills$1,000A tree and some large limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds onto Route 9.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindArmstrongs Mills-The Department of Highways reported trees down along State Route 9.

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Dorsey (historical)1.2 miles12
Alledonia1.9 miles12
Clover Hill2.6 miles15
Becket (historical)2.8 miles12
Hogsink2.9 miles12
Captina3.7 miles15
Kelsey (historical)4.0 miles12
Jacobsburg4.2 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 Armstrongs MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133493The 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 1064345. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.