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.
Then and now
1905 to 1988The 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 sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1905 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Armstrongs Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Armstrongs Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Moundsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
In the 1903 county history
3,013 words on this townshipThe 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 2010The 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12565 |
| 30 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 621 |
| 29 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 603 |
| 27 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 March 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7609 |
| 23 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 918 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829 | 1829 | J.R. Paddock | |
![]() | Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763 | 1839 | J.R. Paddock | |
![]() | Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont. | 1905 | J.L. Sheldon | Near Round Bottom |
![]() | Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn. | 1835 | E. Wilkinson | Ohio |
![]() | Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd. | 1837 | B. Frank | Ohio |
![]() | Carex × sullivantii Boott | 1842 | W. S. Sullivant | Ohio |
![]() | Homalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull. | 1843 | D. Sullivan | |
![]() | Euphorbia maculata L. | 1844 | S. B. Mead | Ohio |
![]() | Jungermannia sullivantii Austin | 1844 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Carex gracilescens Steud. | 1847 | G. B. Ashcroft | Ohio |
![]() | Carex stricta Lam. | 1853 | E. L. Moseley | Ohio |
![]() | Cylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull. | 1863 | D. Sullivan |
All 918 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous | Producer |
Storms nearby
2 since 1997The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armstrongs Mills | $1,000 | A tree and some large limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds onto Route 9. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armstrongs Mills | - | The Department of Highways reported trees down along State Route 9. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorsey (historical) | 1.2 miles | 12 | |
| Alledonia | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Clover Hill | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Becket (historical) | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Hogsink | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Captina | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Kelsey (historical) | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Jacobsburg | 4.2 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 Armstrongs Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133493 | 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 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.























