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

Mermill, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Portage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43451. It stands on Rocky Ford. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green South quadrangle.

Mermill within Wood County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mermill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mermill, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

3 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Mermill between 2002 and 2002, burning about 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 October 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 October 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 743 shown

Museums hold 743 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mermill between 1894 and 1975: 703 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 10 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, L. 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 Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1901Kellerman, W.A.Bowling Green
Specimen of Physoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.ShawPhysoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.Shaw1912E. G. ArzbergerStation grounds
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Calicium lenticulare, not of this specimenCalicium lenticulare Ach.1895E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B.Big Darby Creek, no more precise locality beyond township, near Darbydale OH, Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Aristida purpurascens, not of this specimenAristida purpurascens Poir.1901William KellermanNear Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Phyllachora lespedezae, not of this specimenPhyllachora lespedezae (Schwein.) Sacc.1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
A photograph of the species Uromyces lespedezae, not of this specimenUromyces lespedezae (Thüm.) Peck1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora abietis-canadensis (Farl.) C.A.Ludw.1902W.A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora populina (Jacq.) Lév.1902W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Stemphylium cucurbitacearum Osner1915Gilbert W. W.Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1917E L MOSELEYBOWLING GREEN

All 743 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mermill: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Portage PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms nearby

5 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Mermill in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 5 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
October 2020Thunderstorm WindMermill-Trees downed in Rudolph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMermill-A tree was blown down on a power line.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMermill-There was a picture from social media of a large tree blown down in Rudolph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMermill-A large tree was blown down near Rudolph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMermill-A tree was blown down on power lines near Mitchell Road and Mermill Road.

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Arlington Woods0.8 miles14
Rudolph1.3 miles14
Mungen1.6 miles14
Ducat1.6 miles14
Portage2.0 miles14
Bays2.3 miles14
Trombley3.0 miles14
Christy3.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1066287. 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.

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.