Mineral City, Ohio

Mineral City fell from 727 to 652 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.

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 1994

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.

• 1912 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000

The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Sandy Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mineral City between 2003 and 2020, burning about 58 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Dutchtown
• Wilkshire Hills
• Lawrenceville (historical)
• Sandyville
• Valley Junction
• Zoar

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 294 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mineral City between 1851 and 1973: 197 Animalia, 84 Plantae, 13 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Cusick, A. Cibula, A. Cobula 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
	Juncus tenuis Willd.	1902	Schaffner, J.H.	Brusk Lake, Champaign co., Ohio
	Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.	1902	Schaffner, J.H.	Brusk Lake, Champaign co., Ohio
	Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.	1936	Heintzelmann, C.E.	Camp Tuscazoar, Zoarville.
	Amelanchier arborea (F.Michx.) Fernald	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Anemone canadensis L.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Cardamine douglassii Britton	1851	Wolle, J.	Canae Docus [??] [Canal Dover]
	Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover?]
	Delphinium tricorne Michx.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canal Dover
	Hydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Hydrophyllum virginianum L.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Silene virginica L.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canal Downs [Canal Dover]

All 294 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Mineral City: 8 producers, 4 past producers, 2 plants. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineral City in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Tuscarawas County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057850. 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.