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

Millersport, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43046. It stands on Liebs Island. The Survey maps it on the Millersport quadrangle. 978 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Millersport within Fairfield County

Population over time

2 figures

Millersport fell from 1,044 to 978 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	1,044
2020	978	-66 (-6%)

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millersport, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Millersport, surveyed 1907

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

10,676 words on this township

A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Walnut Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Walnut is immediately north of Pleasant. New Salem and Millersport are the villages of Walnut Township ; the former is a place of some trade, and two churches; it was first settled, and is situated on the eastern border of the township. Millersport is situated at the southern point of the "Big Reservoir," and just where the Ohio Canal enters it. Its thrift and importance is owing, in a large degree, to the fisheries of that artificial lake, which is of several miles in extent in its greatest diameter. The reservoir was formed to supply water to the canal in dry seasons; it is in the northern part of the township. Millersport has the usual churches and schools. Its commerce has been considerable, on account of the shipment of grain and other produce.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

In 1806, there were not exceeding a dozen families within its borders, and they were distributed in different parts of its territory. Some of these have reached me. Of them I record, William Murphy, Asa Murphy, the Cravvfords, Hendrixes, Watsons, and David Lyly.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

Dr. H. Scott - Dear Sir: The note you intended for Charles Wiseman was placed in my box, there being no man' by that name residing in the neighborhood. Not having come to this neighborhood until 1818, I have most of my information from first settlers.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

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 Walnut Township - it names this place 9 more 9 times.

Fires near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Millersport between 2009 and 2020, burning about 6 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	3
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
20 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15762
1 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 November 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15969
4 October 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15838

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,050 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,050 specimens collected within 10 miles of Millersport between 1843 and 1975: 929 Animalia, 77 Fungi, 44 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Albertin, Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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
Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822	1893	unknown	Licking Reservoir
Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1872	Jasper, T. (Theodore)	Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	not recorded	Buckeye Lake, Licking, Ohio, USA
Ranunculus longirostris Godr.	1893	E. M. Wilcox	Licking Reservoir
Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1897	Williamson, E. B. & Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)	Buckeye Lake, Walnut township, ~1.1 mi W of Fairfield Beach, Walnut township
Dicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh.	1900	Williamson, E.B.	New Salem
Arethusa bulbosa L.	1901	C. S. Mead	Buckeye Lake
Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Buckeye Lake, Walnut Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Gordon, R. B. (Robert B.)	Honey Creek, within Thorn township, near Thornville, Thorn township
Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956	1929	MB Trautman	Buckeye Lake, Lieb's Island

All 1,050 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millersport in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 hail, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$25,000	A barn was blown off its foundation and numerous trees were knocked down.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$20,000	Two homes were damaged due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$20,000	A weak microburst caused minor damage to a few structures on the north side of town. One house and a car wash sustained minor roof and siding damage. A wooden sign was also blown over. All debris was blown unidirectionally.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$15,000	Twenty trees were downed along the south shore of Buckeye Lake. Three homes sustained minor damage from the tree debris. Several large limbs were thrown into the lake, and a few metal flag poles were bent. Damage may have come from a possible microburst.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$12,000	Several power poles were snapped in the 11000 block of Lancaster-Newark Road. Several large tree branches were also downed.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$5,000	A few trees and power lines were downed in and around the Millersport area.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$5,000	High winds caused minor structural damage to several homes.
July 1997	Flash Flood	Millersport	$5,000	Several roads were closed across the county due to heavy rainfall.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$5,000	Numerous trees downed.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$3,000	Trees were reported down in the Millersport area due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2007	Flood	Millersport	$3,000	A few roads were flooded and closed.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$3,000	Trees were downed.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$3,000	A few road signs were knocked down in Fairfield Beach.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$3,000	Trees downed.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$1,000	A tree was downed near Millersport.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Millersport	$1,000	A tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2019	Flood	Millersport	-	High water was reported along a portion of Cherry Lane.
July 2019	Flood	Millersport	-	High water was reported in the 12000 block of Lancaster-Kirkersville Road.
June 2011	Hail	Millersport	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Millersport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Summerland Beach	0.5 miles	11
East Millersport	1.4 miles	11
Monticello (historical)	1.5 miles	11
Lakeside	1.7 miles	11
Shell Beach	2.9 miles	14
Fairfield Beach	3.3 miles	14
Kellers Court	4.0 miles	12
Thurston	4.2 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 Millersport	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2163499	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 1043380. 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.