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Millport, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43103. The Survey maps it on the Ashville quadrangle.

Millport within Pickaway County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

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 Millport, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Millport, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

On record in Millport

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 printed 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

12,797 words on this township

History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Harrison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Located on the Ohio Canal between Ashville i and South Bloomfield, is a small settlement j of some 20 or 25 families that has seen its best J days, which were during the period when the Ohio Canal was an important means of transportation. As early as 1810 Stephen Short erected a distillery and a mill at this place. The town was laid out in lots about 1837 by Richard Stage, who erected a number of dwellings and established a pork-packing business, w hich flourished for some years. He also set up his son-in-law, Francis S. Burt, in business. About 1850 a warehouse was built near the j canal, for the purpose of receiving and stor- | ing grain ; a small grocery was established in 1 the building to furnish supplies for canal men. j At the present time Millport has three j groceries, run, respectively, by Ed. Toole, John 1 Burton and Tavlor Ward.

Passage source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906.

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 Harrison Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Millport in 2009, burning under an acre 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 March 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,676 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,676 specimens collected within 10 miles of Millport between 1829 and 1975: 2,613 Animalia, 48 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender, Abbott, R; and others 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
Specimen of Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1892W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of unnamed1896F. L. StevensBig Walnut.
A photograph of the species Rallus elegans, not of this specimenRallus elegans elegans Audubon, 18341829Florence, A. (Arledge)Col Anderson farm 6 1/2 mi west of Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121876Jones, H. (Howard)Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981877Jones, H. (Howard)Goose Pond, near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hirundo rustica, not of this specimenHirundo rustica erythrogaster Boddaert, 17831879Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bartramia longicauda, not of this specimenBartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Mearns, E.A.Circleville near Scioto River.
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1880Jones, H. (Howard)Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Setophaga ruticilla, not of this specimenSetophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus Vieillot, 18081881Jones, H. (Howard)Scioto River bottoms near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, not of this specimenPetrochelidon pyrrhonota (Vieillot, 1817)1881Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA

All 2,676 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Millport: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Raleigh Spradlin Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sturm and Dillard Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pickaway County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millport in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2019Thunderstorm WindMillport$2,000A few trees were downed.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindMillport$2,000A few trees were downed.
March 2026FloodMillport-West Main Street flooded under the railroad overpass.

Every storm recorded in Pickaway 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
South Bloomfield0.8 miles11
Suburban Village0.8 miles11
Brandon Court0.9 miles11
Griffith (historical)1.0 miles11
Ashville1.1 miles11
Ashton Village1.2 miles11
Little Chicago1.2 miles11
Ashton Crossing1.4 miles11

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 MillportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133976The 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 1048978. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.