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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Bears Mill, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45331. It stands on Bolton Run. The Survey maps it on the Greenville East quadrangle.

Bears Mill within Darke County

Then and now

1953 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bears Mill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bears Mill, surveyed 1953

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 1880 county history

63,514 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Adams Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Adams Township - 63,514 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 505 shown

Museums hold 505 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bears Mill between 1838 and 1975: 478 Animalia, 20 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, A. F. C.; Stover, W. G., Albrecht, C. 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 Tilletia laevis J.G.KühnTilletia laevis J.G.Kühn1919not recordedVersailles
Specimen of Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & SwingleUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1919s.n.Versailles
Specimen of Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.1919H.L. LewisVersailles
A photograph of the species Callitriche palustris, not of this specimenCallitriche palustris L.1838Short, C.W.Lexington, Kentucky.
A photograph of the species Dispira americana, not of this specimenDispira americana Thaxt.1895Rush W. H.Greenville
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451905Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma microperca, not of this specimenEtheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 18881905Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township
A photograph of the species Clitocybe multiceps, not of this specimenClitocybe multiceps Peck1906H.J. BrememanGreenville
A photograph of the species Peziza vesiculosa, not of this specimenPeziza vesiculosa Bull.1907Lucas, CGreenville
A photograph of the species Amanita phalloides, not of this specimenAmanita phalloides (Vaill. ex Fr.) Secr.1909A. F. C.; Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Clitocybe odora, not of this specimenClitocybe odora (Bull.) P.Kumm.1909Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Panaeolus solidipes, not of this specimenPanaeolus solidipes (Peck) Sacc.1909Stover, W. G.Greenville

All 505 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bears Mill: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Feitshans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Feitshans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Darke County

Storms nearby

1 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Bears Mill in 1 storm report between 2015 and 2015: 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
December 2015FloodBears Mill-Several roads were closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Darke 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
New Harrison1.2 miles12
Gettysburg2.4 miles13
Poplar Ridge2.5 miles12
Concord2.6 miles12
Horatio2.8 miles12
Stelvideo2.9 miles12
Saint John (historical)3.4 miles12
Union Corners3.5 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122570772The 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 1048497. 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.

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.