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

Miller, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45623. It stands on Federal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Athalia quadrangle.

Miller within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 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, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Miller, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

51 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Miller between 1992 and 2020, burning about 809 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 were 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 burning20
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15245
6 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryBIG 7 MILE
7 April 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12865
6 April 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 278 shown

Museums hold 278 specimens collected within 10 miles of Miller between 1840 and 1974: 239 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beale J. M., Collector(s): W. Perrygo, Collector(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster; Preparator(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster 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
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedGuyandotte River
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1903Beale J. M.Guyandotte
A photograph of the species Coprinus Pers., not of this specimenCoprinus Pers., 17971909SambertBarboursville
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1921George C. WitheyDeering, 11 miles east of
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Union Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio
Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Union Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Union Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio
Calopteryx Leach, 18151930not recordedGuyandotte
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp

All 278 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Miller in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 1 flood. 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
March 2011FloodMiller$50,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Athalia1.4 miles16
Platform3.0 miles16
Scottown4.7 miles15
Cebee4.8 miles15
Polkadotte5.0 miles16
Bartramville5.3 miles20
Gillette5.4 miles19
Riverside Terrace5.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076391. 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.