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

Kings Mills, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45034. It stands on Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the South Lebanon quadrangle.

Kings Mills within Warren County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kings Mills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kings Mills, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,745 shown

Museums hold 3,745 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kings Mills between 1850 and 1974: 2,921 Animalia, 677 Fungi, 92 Plantae, 40 Protozoa, 13 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14529, A. Gaufin, A. H. W. Povah 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 Ipomoea lacunosa L.Ipomoea lacunosa L.1877Joseph Francis JamesLoveland
Specimen of Puccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) ArthurPuccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Arthur1878James, F.Loveland
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Fomes applanatus, not of this specimenFomes applanatus (Pers.) Fr.1850James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Eragrostis cilianensis, not of this specimenEragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.1877James, J.F.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1877James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Rumex altissimus, not of this specimenRumex altissimus Wood1877J. F. JamesLoveland.
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878Collector(s): unknownFoster Point
A photograph of the species Fomes scutellatus, not of this specimenFomes scutellatus (Schwein.) Cooke1878James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Justicia americana, not of this specimenJusticia americana (L.) Vahl1878Lloyd, Curtis GatesLoveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus adustus, not of this specimenPolyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus cinnabarinus, not of this specimenPolyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland

All 3,745 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Kings Mills: 5 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. 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
Clark Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Dravo South Lebanon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Freeze PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mason Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morrow Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Turtlecreek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Watson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms nearby

11 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Kings Mills in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindKings Mills$10,000Several trailers were overturned.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindKings Mills$3,000Several trees were downed.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindKings Mills$3,000A few trees were downed in the Kings Mills area.
March 2008FloodKings Mills$3,000Mason Morrow Millgrove Road was flooded and closed near South Lebanon. Wilmington Road was flooded and closed south of Oregonia.
October 2007HailKings Mills$1,000Hail ranging from penny to nickel sized fell across south-central Warren county.
June 2008HailKings Mills$1,000no account filed
April 2017FloodKings Mills-Standing and ponding of water was reported on Kings Mills Rd, due to clogged storm drain.
May 2016HailKings Mills-no account filed
April 2013HailKings Mills-no account filed
August 2010HailKings Mills-no account filed
June 1996HailKings Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Mary Ellen1.8 miles14
Hopkinsville1.9 miles14
South Lebanon2.1 miles14
Foster2.5 miles15
Hageman2.5 miles16
Stokes (historical)2.6 miles16
Zoar3.0 miles14
Maineville3.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1066310. 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.