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Baileys Mills, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Warren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43713. It lies in Cat Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Barnesville quadrangle.

Baileys Mills within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Baileys Mills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Baileys Mills, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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.

In the 1903 county history

20,780 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 Warren Township covers the first settlers, the first mills, the first child, wild game, the society of friends, the first churches and schools.

Read the chapter on Warren Township - 20,780 words.

Fires nearby

7 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Baileys Mills between 2014 and 2019, burning about 8 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15276
28 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2016Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4025
21 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9825
22 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9866
15 November 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6386

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 60 shown

Museums hold 60 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baileys Mills between 1887 and 1975: 31 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K. 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 Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1961Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
A photograph of the species Blephilia hirsuta, not of this specimenBlephilia hirsuta (Pursh) Benth.1887Koenig, A.near Temperanceville
unnamed1905Laughlin Emma E.Barnesville
A photograph of the species Merulius incarnatus, not of this specimenMerulius incarnatus (S.Ito & S.Imai) Spirin & Zmitr.1905Laughlin Emma E.Barnesville
A photograph of the species Dryopteris goldiana, not of this specimenDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1907Laughlin, E.E.Barnesville
A photograph of the species Geastrum triplex, not of this specimenGeastrum triplex Jungh.1907Laughlin Emma E.Barnesville
A photograph of the species Stereum fasciatum, not of this specimenStereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.1907Laughlin Emma E.Barnesville
A photograph of the species Botrychium dissectum, not of this specimenBotrychium dissectum Spreng.1919Laughlin, E.E.Barnesville
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1925CL & LC HubbsStillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201925CL & LC HubbsStillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1925CL & LC HubbsStillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1925CL & LC HubbsStillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville

All 60 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 Baileys Mills: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Mccort QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Belmont County

Storms nearby

4 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Baileys Mills in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2024Flash FloodBaileys Mills-State Route 265 closed due flooding.
April 2024FloodBaileys Mills-State Route 265 closed due to flooding along Leatherwood Creek.
August 2013FloodBaileys Mills-Trained spotter reported that Cat Hollow Road was flooded.
September 2011HailBaileys Mills-no account filed

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
Temperanceville3.3 miles13
Barnesville3.6 miles13
Boston4.9 miles13
Tacoma5.2 miles13
Somerton6.2 miles13
Olivett6.6 miles13
Speidel6.9 miles12
Hendrysburg7.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064372. 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.