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.
Population over time
2 figuresMiltonsburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 43 | |
| 2020 | 42 | -1 (-2%) |
Then and now
1905 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
11 since 2013The 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 burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5545 |
| 15 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15329 |
| 9 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15819 |
| 26 April 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4846 |
| 22 April 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4607 |
| 17 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4814 |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 779 |
| 22 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 343 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | Herbert R. Mooney | Woodsfield |
![]() | Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863 | 1968 | L. Macior | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1860 | unknown | state route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek |
![]() | Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | David M. Dennis | 3 mi. N Graysville |
| unnamed (fossil) | 1914 | Collector Unknown | Woodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest) | |
![]() | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1921 | Ortmann, Arnold E | Woodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1922 | Thompson W. H. | Woodsfield |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township |
![]() | Natrix septemvittata (Say, 1825) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Washington Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio |
![]() | Natrix sipedon sipedon | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Clarington, Monroe Co., Ohio |
![]() | Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township |
![]() | Rana catesbeiana Shaw, 1802 | 1929 | Walker, 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 1994The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2024 | Tornado (EF2) | Miltonsburg | $500,000 | A 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonsburg | $30,000 | Emergency management reported large trees down along SR 145 in Malaga Township. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonsburg | $10,000 | Local 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonsburg | $5,000 | Trees were downed. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonsburg | $3,000 | Tree reported down onto car by EMA. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonsburg | - | Large tree down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaga | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Monroefield | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Hope Ridge (historical) | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Kerr | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Jerusalem | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Ozark | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Decker | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Lewisville | 5.3 miles | 13 |
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 Miltonsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2472180 | 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 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.























