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Barrs Mills, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44681. The Survey maps it on the Strasburg quadrangle.

Barrs Mills within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Barrs Mills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Barrs Mills, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1884 county history

4,392 words on this township

The county history of 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sugar Creek Township covers name and erection, magistrates, boundaries, war of 1812, pioneers - mi l ls, schools.

Read the chapter on Sugar Creek Township - 4,392 words.

Fires nearby

9 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Barrs Mills between 2005 and 2018, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources806
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources10525
24 March 2009Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources464
25 November 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2609

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 266 shown

Museums hold 266 specimens collected within 10 miles of Barrs Mills between 1851 and 1973: 153 Animalia, 98 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cibula, A. Cobula, A. Woolman 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 Seaverinia geranii (Seaver & W.T.Horne) WhetzelSeaverinia geranii (Seaver & W.T.Horne) Whetzel1969C. W. Ellett
A photograph of the species Amelanchier arborea, not of this specimenAmelanchier arborea (F.Michx.) Fernald1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Anemone canadensis, not of this specimenAnemone canadensis L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1851Wolle, J.Canae Docus [??] [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover?]
A photograph of the species Delphinium tricorne, not of this specimenDelphinium tricorne Michx.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1851Wolle, J.Canal Dover
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum virginianum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum virginianum L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1851Wolle, J.Canal Downs [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1851Wolle, J.Canal Dover
Triosteum perfoliatum L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Doon [Canal Dover?]

All 266 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Barrs Mills: 8 producers, 6 past producers, 1 plant. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. 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
Coxey Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Coxey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Belden PitClay, CoalProducer
Belden PitClay, CoalProducer
Mcfarland PitClay, CoalProducer
Plant Number 4-1Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Plant Number 4-2Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Plant Number 8Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Belden PitClay, CoalProducer
Belden PitClay, CoalProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas County

Storms nearby

1 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Barrs Mills in 1 storm report between 2010 and 2010: 1 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
June 2010FloodBarrs Mills$75,000Emergency management reported widespread flooding of streams and roads due to long duration heavy rain.

Every storm recorded in Tuscarawas 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
Winklepleck Grove1.8 miles16
Dundee2.7 miles16
Shanesville3.0 miles15
Sugarcreek3.3 miles15
Winfield3.4 miles16
Strasburg6.0 miles16
Beartown6.1 miles16
Columbia6.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064384. 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.