Mill Grove, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Meigsville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43756. It stands on Meigs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 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
14 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.
- 1909 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
In the 1880 county history
77 words on this townshipThe county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Meigsville Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Meigsville Township - 77 words.
Fires nearby
25 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mill Grove between 2012 and 2020, burning about 39 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5588 |
| 23 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5587 |
| 5 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1461 |
| 27 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14245 |
| 24 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13508 |
| 20 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15464 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 585 shownMuseums hold 585 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mill Grove between 1887 and 1974: 490 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1962 | D. Stansbery | Muskingum River, Waterford, Below Dam At Beverly |
![]() | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
![]() | Crystallaria cincotta Welsh & Wood, 2008 | 1888 | Gilbert, C. & Henshall, J. A. (James A.) | Muskingum River, dst Beverly dam RM 24.8, 0.6 miles west of Beverly OH, Waterford township |
![]() | Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
![]() | Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio |
![]() | Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
![]() | Pimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
![]() | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
![]() | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1904 | not recorded | Meigs Creek |
![]() | Merulius incarnatus Schwein. | 1906 | Collector unspecified | McConnellsville |
![]() | Cylindrosporium padi P.Karst. | 1910 | W. T. Mitchell & Son | Beverly |
All 585 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2025The National Weather Service names Mill Grove in 1 storm report between 2025 and 2025: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mill Grove | $750 | A downed tree in the Neelysville area resulted in local power outages. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center Bend | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Unionville | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Hackney | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Neelysville | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Hooksburg | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Moscow Mills | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Brokaw | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Lovell | 5.4 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065025. 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.

























