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

Cedar Mills, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45616. It stands on Cedar Run. The Survey maps it on the Lynx quadrangle.

Cedar Mills within Adams County

Then and now

1916 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cedar Mills, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Cedar Mills, surveyed 1916

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

19 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Mills between 2004 and 2020, burning about 58 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10106
26 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4386
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15482
8 March 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3654
8 March 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4026
23 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15033

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,472 shown

Museums hold 1,472 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cedar Mills between 1866 and 1975: 584 Fungi, 550 Animalia, 304 Plantae, 34 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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 Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1879A. B. SeymourAdams County
Specimen of Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.1900W.A. KellermanMineral Springs
Specimen of Puccinia smilacis Schwein.Puccinia smilacis Schwein.1900W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Asplenium ruta-muraria, not of this specimenAsplenium ruta-muraria L.1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Pleopeltis michauxiana, not of this specimenPleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Stigmella platani, not of this specimenStigmella platani Fuckel1892Kellerman W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Phyllachora graminis, not of this specimenPhyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel1900Kern W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Baeomyces byssoides, not of this specimenBaeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.1925Muegel, Harry R.Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia amaurocraea, not of this specimenCladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia cristatella, not of this specimenCladonia cristatella Tuck.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 1,472 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Cedar Mills in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2014HailCedar Mills$300,000Extensive hail damage to houses and vehicles was reported in Adams County, including in West Union and Peebles.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCedar Mills$3,000Trees were reported down on Tulip Road and White Oak Road due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCedar Mills$3,000A few trees were knocked down along State Route 348.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCedar Mills$3,000Trees downed.
January 1998Flash FloodCedar Mills$3,000Persistent heavy rainfall caused water to flood across Rte. 348.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindCedar Mills$1,000Windows were blown out of a house due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Moore (historical)2.5 miles12
Scrub Ridge3.0 miles12
Fawcett3.1 miles12
Lynx3.6 miles12
Blue Creek4.6 miles12
Dunkinsville4.7 miles12
Jones Corner5.3 miles12
Mineral Springs5.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1038906. 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.