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.
Then and now
1905 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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 Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000
In the 1903 county history
20,780 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 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 2014The 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 burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15276 |
| 28 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 March 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4025 |
| 21 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 December 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9825 |
| 22 December 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9866 |
| 15 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 6386 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 60 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | 1 mile west of Hendrysburg. |
![]() | Blephilia hirsuta (Pursh) Benth. | 1887 | Koenig, A. | near Temperanceville |
| unnamed | 1905 | Laughlin Emma E. | Barnesville | |
![]() | Merulius incarnatus (S.Ito & S.Imai) Spirin & Zmitr. | 1905 | Laughlin Emma E. | Barnesville |
![]() | Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray | 1907 | Laughlin, E.E. | Barnesville |
![]() | Geastrum triplex Jungh. | 1907 | Laughlin Emma E. | Barnesville |
![]() | Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr. | 1907 | Laughlin Emma E. | Barnesville |
![]() | Botrychium dissectum Spreng. | 1919 | Laughlin, E.E. | Barnesville |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville |
![]() | Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville |
![]() | Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Stillwater 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 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mccort Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms nearby
4 since 2011The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Baileys Mills | - | State Route 265 closed due flooding. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Baileys Mills | - | State Route 265 closed due to flooding along Leatherwood Creek. |
| August 2013 | Flood | Baileys Mills | - | Trained spotter reported that Cat Hollow Road was flooded. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Baileys Mills | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temperanceville | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Barnesville | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Boston | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Tacoma | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Somerton | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Olivett | 6.6 miles | 13 | |
| Speidel | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Hendrysburg | 7.8 miles | 13 |
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.























