Deardoffs Mills, Ohio
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44680. It stands on South Fork Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Navarre quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1914 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
18 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.
- 1914 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Navarre quadrangle1:24000
In the 1884 county history
3,357 words on this townshipThe 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 Franklin Township covers organization, size, magistrates, sugar creek valley, soil, first settlers.
Read the chapter on Franklin Township - 3,357 words.
Fires nearby
5 since 2005The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Deardoffs Mills (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 13 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11645 |
| 29 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 805 |
| 23 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15426 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 269 shownMuseums hold 269 specimens collected within 10 miles of Deardoffs Mills (historical) between 1851 and 1973: 159 Animalia, 97 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Cusick, A. Cibula, A. Cobula 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Adiantum pedatum L. | 1936 | Heintzelmann, C.E. | Camp Tuscazoar. Zoarville. |
![]() | Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw. | 1936 | Heintzelmann, C.E. | Camp Tuscazoar, Zoarville. |
![]() | Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt | 1936 | Heintzelmann, C.E. | Zoarville, Ohio. Camp Tuscazoar |
![]() | Amelanchier arborea (F.Michx.) Fernald | 1851 | Wolle, J. | Canoe Down [Canal Dover] |
![]() | Anemone canadensis L. | 1851 | Wolle, J. | Canoe Down [Canal Dover] |
![]() | Cardamine douglassii Britton | 1851 | Wolle, J. | Canae Docus [??] [Canal Dover] |
![]() | Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr. | 1851 | Wolle, J. | Canoe Down [Canal Dover?] |
![]() | Delphinium tricorne Michx. | 1851 | Wolle, J. | Canoe Down [Canal Dover] |
![]() | Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl. | 1851 | Wolle, J. | Canal Dover |
![]() | Hydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx. | 1851 | Wolle, J. | Canoe Down [Canal Dover] |
![]() | Hydrophyllum virginianum L. | 1851 | Wolle, J. | Canoe Down [Canal Dover] |
![]() | Silene virginica L. | 1851 | Wolle, J. | Canal Downs [Canal Dover] |
All 269 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
10 of 13 shownThe federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Deardoffs Mills (historical): 8 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belden Pit | Clay, Coal | Producer | ||
| Belden Pit | Clay, Coal | Producer | ||
| Plant Number 8 | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Strasburg Brick Mill | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| E.C. Myers Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| 77 Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cleveland Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| County Line Sr 212 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Coxey Plant & Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Coxey Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067226. 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.





























