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

Mineral, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Waterloo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45766. It stands on Mud Lick Run. The Survey maps it on the Mineral quadrangle.

Mineral within Athens County

Then and now

1904 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mineral, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Mineral, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

21 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Mineral between 2012 and 2020, burning about 37 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
15 May 2020	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15724
9 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15140
4 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15141
22 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2017	Debris and open burning	2.7 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8105

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,029 shown

Museums hold 1,029 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mineral between 1896 and 1975: 889 Animalia, 91 Plantae, 43 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens
Ambrosia bidentata Michx.	1969	William G. Gambill Jr.
Potamogeton diversifolius Raf.	1974	Carl B. Hellquist	Snowden Recreation Park
Perlesta Banks, 1906	1898	N. Roberts
Diospyros virginiana L.	1899	A. D. Selby	Marshfield
Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Melasmia Lév., 1846	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Athens
Erasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)	1905	not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)	1905	H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura ardens (McAtee, 1920)	1905	H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura campora (Robinson, 1924)	1905	not recorded

All 1,029 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

9 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Mineral in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 6 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1996	Flash Flood	Mineral	$25,000	no account filed
August 2021	Flash Flood	Mineral	$3,000	Flooding occurred along State Route 356 near the intersection of State Route 356 and State Route 681.
February 2018	Flood	Mineral	$2,000	Numerous roads were closed across the county due to flooding. This included State Route 144 near mile marker 12, and State Route 329 between State Routes 144 and 550. State Route 13 was closed between Trimble and Glouster and State Routes 56 and 356 were both closed on the western end of the county.\|\|Monday Creek at Doanville also flooded. The stream gage showed the creek going above bankfull level of 16 feet around sunrise on the 17th. It crested at 16.2 feet around 10 AM, and returned to its banks around 2 PM.
December 2018	Flood	Mineral	$2,000	Several roads were closed across central Athens County due to flooding. This included State Route 681 along Rockcamp Creek near Albany, along with State Route 56 and 356 along Hewett Fork near Carbondale and Marshfield. Near Amesville, State Route 329 along Federal Creek, State Route 550 along McDougall Branch and State Route 690 along Mush Run were closed.
March 2017	Flood	Mineral	$2,000	Multiple roads were closed due to flooding on Sunday and Monday Creek, that lead to flooding along the Hocking River.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineral	$2,000	Trees were down on Route 56.
February 2023	Flood	Mineral	$500	The intersection of State Routes 356 and 681 was closed for a period of time due to high water issues.
March 2026	Flood	Mineral	-	State Route 56 East was closed beyond Dogwood Ridge Road to State Route 356 due to flooding from Hewett Fork.
January 2024	Flood	Mineral	-	Flooding led to road closures on State Route 356 from State Route 56 eastward to Rockcamp Road and on State Route 56 between State Route 691 and Dogwood Ridge Road.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Ingham (historical)	1.8 miles	15
New Mansfield	2.4 miles	18
New Marshfield	2.5 miles	18
Five Points	2.8 miles	18
Hocking	3.0 miles	15
Carbondale	3.7 miles	16
Luhrig	4.4 miles	18
Brookville	5.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065030. 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.