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

Mifflin, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mifflin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44805. It stands on Ruffner Run. The Survey maps it on the Ashland South quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.

Mifflin within Ashland County

Population over time

2 figures

Mifflin grew from 137 to 158 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010137
2020158+21 (+15%)

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mifflin, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mifflin, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

4 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mifflin between 2020 and 2020, burning about 2 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 burning3
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
20 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15814
9 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15500
6 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15943
9 January 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15379

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 299 shown

Museums hold 299 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mifflin between 1846 and 1975: 284 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, B Zahuranec & party, B.H., H.P., M.A. & R. Rhoades 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 Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) DouinAnthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin1923Mrs. Bayard R. Taylornear Londonville
Mediorhynchus grandis Van Cleave, 19161846P. HarwoodAshland
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Smith, D. W.Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Danthonia spicata, not of this specimenDanthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.1897Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyVermilion Township
A photograph of the species Tyto alba, not of this specimenTyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)1900Fuller, W. J.Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1902not recordedNo Further Locality Data
Valsa Fr.1913Stevens N. E.Windsor
A photograph of the species Limenitis archippus, not of this specimenLimenitis archippus Cramer, 17751923Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Thornburg Station, Valley View, Cuyahoga Co., OH
A photograph of the species Oecanthus latipennis, not of this specimenOecanthus latipennis Riley, 18811923Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Thornburg Station, Valley View, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Oecanthus nigricornis Walker, 18691923Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Thornburg Station, Valley View, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Tropidia quadrata (Say, 1824)1923Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Thornburg Station, Valley View, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Tachinidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Thornburg Station, Valley View, Cuyahoga Co., OH

All 299 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mifflin: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Bolin and Son Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bolin and Son Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weber MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms nearby

8 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Mifflin in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 5 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMifflin$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree south of Mifflin along State Route 603.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMifflin$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
May 2016HailMifflin-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2014HailMifflin-Penny to nickel sized hail was observed.
June 2007HailMifflin-Nickel size hail was observed.
June 2005HailMifflin-Quarter size hail was observed near Mifflin.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMifflin-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
August 2000HailMifflin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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
Mifflin Cottage Area1.0 miles15
South Peninsula Cottage Area1.6 miles15
Yacht Point Cottage Area2.2 miles13
Charles Mill2.7 miles13
Widowville3.0 miles13
Five Points3.7 miles14
Hayesville5.4 miles15
Paradise Hill6.7 miles14

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on MifflinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2053760The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061521. 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.