BlockMillbrook, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Plain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44676. The Survey maps it on the Shreve quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Millbrook
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Kister Milllisted 1974
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed 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.
- 1912 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Shreve quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,163 words on this townshipHistory of Wayne County, Ohio, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Plain Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The town plattings of this township are indeed cpiite numerous. Millbrook received its title from General Thomas McMillan, wdio named and surveyed it. It was laid out by Elijah Yocum August 10, 1829. A gristmill was built by McMillan to the east of the town site in i8ifi for John Nimmon; later this was turned into a carding-mill.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Ohio, published 1910.
Land owners in plowing and ditching on the way between Springville and Millbrook, many years ago, unearthed the remains of large cedar trees, and about 1830 immense logs were taken out three feet from the surface that had probably lain there for ages. Trees were found from three to four feet in diameter. South of Millbrook, while cutting a ditch, more of these large cedar trees were found. What is strange about all this is the fact that there are no cedar forests in this section, nor is there any knowledge of any having been here in the centuries past. In about the same locality were also found numerous buffalo skulls and horns and the remains of human bodies of great size. Who they were and what their history can only be conjectured at this late day.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Ohio, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Millbrook between 2004 and 2010, burning about 3 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,543 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,543 specimens collected within 10 miles of Millbrook between 1877 and 1975: 2,106 Animalia, 245 Plantae, 153 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807) | 1930 | B. Montgomery & J. Houser | 2 miles northeast of Wooster |
 | Aster ciliolatus Lindl. | 1877 | Thorne, B.H. | Station Farm, Wooster |
 | Chelidon Forster, 1817 | 1889 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA |
 | Eupatorium sessilifolium L. | 1889 | Duvel, J.W.T | Fredericksburg |
 | Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
 | Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
| Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster | |
 | Certhia americana americana Bonaparte, 1838 | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
| Corthylio calendula calendula | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster | |
 | Cyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 1921 | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
All 2,543 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springville | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Kauke | 1.8 miles | 18 | |
| Stringtown | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Shreve | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Craigton | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Moreland | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Burnetts Corners | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Horace (historical) | 3.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057847. 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.
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