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

Miller City, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Palmer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45864. The Survey maps it on the Miller City quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Miller City within Putnam County

Population over time

2 figures

Miller City fell from 137 to 134 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	137
2020	134	-3 (-2%)

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Miller City, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Miller City, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the county-history sources

1,103 words on this township

History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Palmer Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The same year that marked the beginning of the once famous little town of Hector saw the birth of another village in Palmer township. Miller City, although taking a slow growth at first, was destined to a longer life ihan her sister city. It was, laid out and platted by Aaron Overbeck on August 22, 1882, and dedicated under the name of St. Nicholas, by Nicholas Noriot and Nicholas Miller, the proprietors of the two parcels of land upon which the village plat was located.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

The country around this village became a veritable garden spot after it had become thoroughly drained of its swamps and was known as the South Prairie. Large and small garden and farm produce was raised in abundance and Miller City became the shipping point for these enormous crops, as well as much of the timber and lumber products manufactured in its vicinity. Stores were established under this impetus and the town grew with such rapidity that Mr. Miller deemed it necessary to lay out new additions, which he did in 1884 and 1887.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

Upon petition to the county commissioners, the town was duly incorporated on November 26, 1890, under the name of Miller City, being so named for the original proprietor, Nicholas Miller, to whose energy and business tact the growth and progress of the village was largely due. This city, situated as it is on the Nickel Plate railroad, which affords it a ready outlet to eastern markets, is certain to make advances. The Miller City Tile Company is one of the greatest industries at the present time and, with her other business establishments, the town has assurance of the country trade.

Passage source: History of Putnam County, Ohio : Its Peoples, Industries, and Institutions, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Palmer Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 129 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 129 specimens collected within 10 miles of Miller City between 1860 and 1969: 129 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Blyth & Katz, Bureau of Fisheries 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1893	Bureau of Fisheries	Blanchard River
Lampsilis ventricosa (Barnes, 1823)	1893	not recorded	Blanchard River
Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	not recorded	Blanchard River, Ottawa
Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)	1860	unknown	Blanchard R. at Ottawa
Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett, 1813)	1878	not recorded
Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	Porter collection, J.B.
Calidris minutilla (Vieillot, 1819)	1878	Porter collection, J.B.
Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	Porter collection, J.B.
Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	Porter, J.B.
Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	Porter, J.B.
Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758	1878	Porter collection, J.B.
Botaurus Stephens, 1819	1879	not recorded

All 129 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miller City in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 4 hail. 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
August 2019	Hail	Miller City	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Miller City	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Miller City	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Miller City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Elm Center	2.0 miles	12
Wards (historical)	3.5 miles	12
Kieferville	4.0 miles	11
Cuba	4.9 miles	11
Hector	5.1 miles	11
New Cleveland	5.3 miles	12
North Creek	5.6 miles	12
Glandorf	5.8 miles	12

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 Miller City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672456	The 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 1065027. 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.

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.