Bolins Mills, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Knox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45710. It stands on Russell Run. The Survey maps it on the Vales Mills quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 87 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
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 Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
16 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Bolins Mills between 2013 and 2020, burning about 80 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1427 |
| 9 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11011 |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15691 |
| 9 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 3634 |
| 31 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 632 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 463 shownMuseums hold 463 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bolins Mills between 1900 and 1975: 408 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 21 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W., C. C. Green 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr | 1936 | C. C. Green | Waterloo State Forest |
![]() | Acordulecera dorsalis | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Acordulecera mellina | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
| Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
![]() | Andrena helianthi Robertson, 1891 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States |
| Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Argyra minuta Loew, 1861 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States | |
| Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892) | 1900 | Hine | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Calobata antennaepes Say, 1823 | 1900 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Capnochroa LeConte, 1862 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States | |
| Cephalops Fallén, 1810 | 1900 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
All 463 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
12 since 2012The National Weather Service names Bolins Mills in 12 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 6 flood, 4 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Bolins Mills | $5,000 | High water impacted portions of State Route 50 near the Route 356 intersection. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Bolins Mills | $3,000 | Flooding was observed near the intersection of Stanley Road and State Route 356 near the town of Knox. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Bolins Mills | $3,000 | Flooding was observed along the eastbound lanes of US-50 southwest of the town of Knox. |
| December 2018 | Flood | Bolins Mills | $2,000 | Several roads were closed across eastern Vinton County due to flooding. This included State Routes 324 and 677 near McArthur, and State Routes 278 and 356 near Prattsville due to high water on flooding along Raccoon Creek and Wheelabout Creek. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Bolins Mills | $2,000 | Raccoon Creek at Bolins Mills remained in flood stage following heavy rain. This closed multiple roads across the eastern part of the county. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bolins Mills | $2,000 | Trees were blown down at the intersection of Routes 356 and 50. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bolins Mills | $1,500 | A tree brought down power lines onto Vandyke Road outside the community of Bolins Mills. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Bolins Mills | $500 | As water drained through the water system, Raccoon Creek experience minor flooding near Bolins Mills. The stream gage showed the creek rose above its 14 foot bankfull level early on the 23rd. It crested at 16 feet late on the 24th and returned to its banks mid morning on the 25th. This caused minor flooding in fields and other lowland areas along the creek. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Bolins Mills | $100 | High water was observed over Long Run Road. |
| April 2025 | Flood | Bolins Mills | - | State Route 356 was closed from US 50 to Robinette Ridge Road due to flooding. |
| January 2024 | Flood | Bolins Mills | - | High water issued resulted in road closures along portions of State Route 356 from US 50 north toward Robinette Ridge Road. |
| April 2018 | Flood | Bolins Mills | - | Raccoon Creek at Bolins Mills flooded. The gage indicated Raccoon Creek rose above its 14 foot bankfull level just after midnight on the 4th. The creek crested just above 15 feet on the morning of the 5th, and returned to within its banks by mid afternoon on the 6th. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knox | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Pincher (historical) | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Vales Mills | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Arbaugh | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Ural (historical) | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Prattsville | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hope | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Zaleski | 6.8 miles | 15 |
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 Q122558530 | 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 1070685. 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.
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.
















