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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.

Bolins Mills within Vinton County

Then and now

1905 to 1992

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Bolins Mills, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Bolins Mills, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

16 since 2013

The 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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
31 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1427
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11011
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15691
9 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3634
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources632

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 463 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.BarrMycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr1936C. C. GreenWaterloo State Forest
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)1900HineVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Calobata antennaepes Say, 18231900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Capnochroa LeConte, 18621900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Cephalops Fallén, 18101900Hine, 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 2012

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Flash FloodBolins Mills$5,000High water impacted portions of State Route 50 near the Route 356 intersection.
August 2021Flash FloodBolins Mills$3,000Flooding was observed near the intersection of Stanley Road and State Route 356 near the town of Knox.
August 2021Flash FloodBolins Mills$3,000Flooding was observed along the eastbound lanes of US-50 southwest of the town of Knox.
December 2018FloodBolins Mills$2,000Several 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 2017FloodBolins Mills$2,000Raccoon Creek at Bolins Mills remained in flood stage following heavy rain. This closed multiple roads across the eastern part of the county.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBolins Mills$2,000Trees were blown down at the intersection of Routes 356 and 50.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBolins Mills$1,500A tree brought down power lines onto Vandyke Road outside the community of Bolins Mills.
June 2018FloodBolins Mills$500As 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 2022Flash FloodBolins Mills$100High water was observed over Long Run Road.
April 2025FloodBolins Mills-State Route 356 was closed from US 50 to Robinette Ridge Road due to flooding.
January 2024FloodBolins Mills-High water issued resulted in road closures along portions of State Route 356 from US 50 north toward Robinette Ridge Road.
April 2018FloodBolins 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.

Every storm recorded in Vinton 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
Knox2.4 miles15
Pincher (historical)3.5 miles12
Vales Mills4.0 miles12
Arbaugh4.9 miles12
Ural (historical)5.4 miles15
Prattsville5.7 miles13
Hope6.6 miles15
Zaleski6.8 miles15

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 Q122558530The 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.