Mingo Junction, Ohio
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Steubenville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43938. It stands on Cross Creek. The Survey maps it on the Steubenville East quadrangle. 3,347 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMingo Junction fell from 3,454 to 3,347 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 | 3,454 | |
| 2020 | 3,347 | -107 (-3%) |
Then and now
1904 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
24 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.
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Steubenville 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
- 1958 USGS Steubenville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Steubenville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Steubenville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Steubenville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Steubenville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Steubenville East quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Steubenville township, in the words of 1891.
Friday, January 9, 1891
AWFUL ACCIDENT---One of the most horrible accidents on the Panhandle R.R. for some years occurred near Coshocton Tuesday evening. . . in which WHEELER BURGESS was fatally injured, JOHN CURN and ROBERT DAVIS of THOS. FRITH's crew of stone bridge builders from this city were killed. . . (men were riding on a hand car, overtaken by train, these three had no time to jump from car).
Fires nearby
8 since 2000The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Mingo Junction between 2000 and 2015, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BETHANY PIKE/GREENS RUN RD. |
| 19 April 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | CROSS CREEK RD. |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 686 |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | CHAPMAN HEIGHTS |
| 9 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | CROSS CREEK |
| 7 February 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BRINKER RD. |
| 22 October 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SMITH OIL |
| 29 January 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WELLSBURG |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 516 shownMuseums hold 516 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mingo Junction between 1836 and 1974: 295 Animalia, 179 Plantae, 41 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, Allison W. Cusick, BANKS, C S 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Vitis aestivalis Michx. | 1836 | Jewett | |
![]() | Polygonum erectum L. | 1902 | Kellerman, W.A. | Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio |
![]() | Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Betula lenta L. | 1877 | Wertz, H.W. | Buffalo Creek near Wheeling |
![]() | Carex hirsutella Mack. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Dichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Elymus hystrix L. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. | 1877 | Guttenberg, H.G. | Wellsburg |
![]() | Galium circaezans Michx. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | near Steubenville |
![]() | Hypericum mutilum L. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
All 516 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
5 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mingo Junction: 4 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Steubenville Smelter | Iron, Chromium | Plant | ||
| Fairfax Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Brilliant, Ohio | Zirconium | Producer | ||
| Wheeling-Pgh/ Mingo Junction, Ohio | Iron | Producer | ||
| Wheeling-Pittsburgh/ Steubenville | Iron | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Altamont | 0.9 miles | 24 | |
| Deandale | 0.9 miles | 24 | |
| East View | 1.0 miles | 24 | |
| Hillsboro | 1.1 miles | 24 | |
| Georges Run | 1.7 miles | 24 | |
| Jeffersonville (historical) | 1.8 miles | 24 | |
| Jefferson Heights | 2.1 miles | 24 | |
| Fishersville | 2.2 miles | 24 |
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 Mingo Junction | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1264743 | 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 1065035. 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.



































