Madison Mills, Ohio

The 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.

1906 1986

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.

• 1906 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mount Sterling quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mount Sterling quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

History of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Madison Mills between 2011 and 2011, burning about 0 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bloomingburg
• White Oak
• Yatesville

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 182 specimens collected within 10 miles of Madison Mills between 1907 and 1974: 176 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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
	Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1965	H. Althearn	Deer Creek, 3.8 Mile NNE Of Pancoastburg
	Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1907	Hegler, A. (Almer)	Fairview, Fayette, Ohio, USA
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1907	Hegler, A. (Almer)	Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
	Buteo lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin, 1788)	1907	Hegler, A. (Almer)	Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
	Falco rusticolus obsoletus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)	1907	Hegler, A. (Almer)	Washington C.H., Fayette, Ohio, USA
	Tiphiidae	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Madison, Fayette Co., Ohio, USA
	Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	water unknown, #10 Fayette Co, n/a, township n/a
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
	Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
	Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
	Erimyzon oblongus (Mitchill, 1814)	1930	MB Trautman	North Fork of Paint Creek, Center of Madison Twp
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	MB Trautman	North Fork of Paint Creek, Center of Madison Twp

All 182 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison Mills in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 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.

Every storm recorded in Fayette County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070830. 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.