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

Millwood, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43028. It stands on Honey Run. The Survey maps it on the Danville quadrangle.

Millwood within Knox County

Then and now

1912 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millwood, surveyed 1966

Topographic sheet of Millwood, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

10,681 words on this township

A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive; Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes .., published 1862; History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The towns of Danville, Millwood and Oavallo are in this township. The first is one of the oldest in the county. For the past twenty years it has not improved much. It is the oldest post-ofiice in the eastern part of Knox: its post-masters have been W. R. Sapp, Enoch Sapp. G. H. Davidson, and S. W. Sapp. Oavallo was a great place on paper in the days of the Canal fever. While Isaac Means, S. W. Farquhar, W. Y. Richardson, D. S. Fairchild, 0. Keller, H. Thomas and others lived there it had much trade. From 1813 to 1818 were its best days ; then, almost all the exports and imports of Knox were through this port, four large warehouses were erected, and goods were sold by wholesale ; now, the only man living within its limits is i*^elson Thatcher, and his neighbor on the old Butler farm is Solomon Gearner. The future

Passage source: A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive; Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes .., published 1862.

THIS township as originally organized in 1808, consisted of Brown, Jefferson, Union, Butler, Jackson, Howard, three-fourths of Harrison, and the east half of Clay. In 1S25 it was reduced to five miles square, having Jefferson on the north, Howard on the west, Butler on the south, and Coshocton county on the east. Union retained the boundary given it in 1825 until 1876, when one mile from the south side of Jefferson was attached to it.

Passage source: History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881.

Union contains within its limits a very fine body of land, embracing almost every variety of soil, which is well adapted for the production of grass or grain, as well as every variety of fruit and vegetables grown in Ohio. The surface is broken and hilly, especially along the Mohican river and Owl creek, where there are numerous high bluffs, for the most part still well timbered. Beyond these hills the township is moderately undulating, and is covered with fine farms and farm houses. The farmers are generally well and comfortably settled, and many evidences of wealth and prosperity are seen while passing through the township. It is well watered. The two largest streams in Knox county flow through the township. Owl creek crosses the southwest corner, and the Mohican river cuts across the northeastern part, passing out of the township into Coshocton county, and flowing southwardly, it again enters Union in the southeastern part of the township, and continuing a southeastwardly course about three-fourths of a mile it again passes into Coshocton county.

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 Union Township - it names this place 10 more 10 times.

Fires near this place

55 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Millwood between 2004 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15805
21 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15815
14 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15810
5 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8446
20 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8566
11 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8508
3 May 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1104
27 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15200

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 258 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 258 specimens collected within 10 miles of Millwood between 1890 and 1971: 225 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 13 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C F WALKER, C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. Jenkinson, Collector unknown 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
Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.	1896	F. L. Stevens	Hayden Falls
Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.	1897	F.L. Stevens
Lampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)	1890	Parker, J. B.	Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
Aesculus hippocastanum L.	1892	Collector unspecified
Cornus florida L.	1892	Collector unknown
Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin (Farw.) Sheviak	1892	M. C. Ferguson	Gambier
Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.	1892	M. Warner	Gambier
Oxalis violacea L.	1892	Collector unspecified
Polytrichum commune Hedw.	1892	not recorded	Gambier
Rumex acetosella L.	1892	Collector unspecified
Rumex obtusifolius L.	1892	M. C. Ferguson
Puccinia eatoniae Arthur	1897	W. A. Kellerman	Brinkhaven.

All 258 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Millwood: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Darr and Hart Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Briar Hill Brinkhaven Pit	Flagstone	Producer
Briar Hill Martinsburg Pit	Flagstone	Producer
Millwood Sand Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Millwood Sand Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millwood in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
November 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Millwood	$100,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of several buildings along U.S. Route 62 near Millwood. Many trees were also downed in the area.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Millwood	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Millwood and Danville.
May 2002	Hail	Millwood	$5,000	Dime size hail was observed.
May 2004	Hail	Millwood	$2,000	Quarter size hail was observed.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Millwood	-	Trees downed in Millwood.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Millwood	-	Multiple trees were snapped and uprooted on Millersburg Road.
May 2007	Hail	Millwood	-	Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Hollisters (historical)	1.9 miles	12
Oak Hill	2.2 miles	12
Zuck	2.6 miles	12
Howard	2.7 miles	12
Buckeye City	3.2 miles	12
Danville	3.4 miles	12
Pipesville	3.8 miles	12
Umbria (historical)	4.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065779. 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.