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Miltonsburg, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Malaga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43793. The Survey maps it on the Lewisville quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,296 feet above sea level.

Miltonsburg within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Miltonsburg fell from 43 to 42 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.

YearPeople Change
201043
202042-1 (-2%)

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Miltonsburg, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Miltonsburg, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

11 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Miltonsburg between 2013 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 2 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5545
15 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15329
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15819
26 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4846
22 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4607
17 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4814
30 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources779
22 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 343 shown

Museums hold 343 specimens collected within 10 miles of Miltonsburg between 1860 and 1975: 335 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Herbert R. MooneyWoodsfield
Specimen of Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863Bombus affinis Cresson, 18631968L. Macior[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1860unknownstate route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
unnamed (fossil)1914Collector UnknownWoodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1921Ortmann, Arnold EWoodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1922Thompson W. H.Woodsfield
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Natrix septemvittata, not of this specimenNatrix septemvittata (Say, 1825)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Washington Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Natrix sipedon, not of this specimenNatrix sipedon sipedon1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Clarington, Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Rana catesbeiana, not of this specimenRana catesbeiana Shaw, 18021929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Washington Twp.: Little Muskingum River, Monroe Co., Ohio

All 343 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Miltonsburg in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
February 2024Tornado (EF2)Miltonsburg$500,000A NWS Storm Survey confirmed an EF-2 tornado tracked roughly 4 miles from Miltonsburg to Ozark in Monroe County. The tornado was embedded within a wider swath of straight-line wind damage. Maximum wind gusts were near 120mph. There was widespread tree damage and many outbuildings were affected. The most significant damage was located off Minder Road where a house sustained major damage, which consisted of it being shifted off its foundation, windows blown out, and a complete collapse of the attached garage. There was one indirect injury during cleanup efforts.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMiltonsburg$30,000Emergency management reported large trees down along SR 145 in Malaga Township.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMiltonsburg$10,000Local emergency management reported numerous trees uprooted and sheared off in a path from just off route 145 in Miltonsburg to route 800 from a downburst. Width was approximately 200 yards.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMiltonsburg$5,000Trees were downed.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMiltonsburg$3,000Tree reported down onto car by EMA.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMiltonsburg-Large tree down.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Malaga1.9 miles13
Monroefield2.1 miles13
Hope Ridge (historical)3.6 miles14
Kerr4.1 miles13
Jerusalem4.1 miles14
Ozark4.4 miles14
Decker5.1 miles13
Lewisville5.3 miles13

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 MiltonsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2472180The 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 1051007. 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.