Mountville, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Homer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45732. The Survey maps it on the Ringgold quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


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.
- 1910 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
13 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Mountville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 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 | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15255 |
| 12 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BOC FIRE |
| 7 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 329 BRAVO |
| 17 June 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BURLEY FIRE |
| 3 May 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | EAST |
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LAKE ROAD |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | FIERCE RIDGE |
| 7 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BLACK FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 185 shownMuseums hold 185 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mountville between 1887 and 1973: 153 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Aureal T. Cross 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cercis canadensis L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Gleditsia triacanthos L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
![]() | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Merulius corium (Pers.) Fr. | 1908 | Coker W. C. | Chapel Hill |
![]() | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1911 | B.R. Bales | Ringgold |
![]() | Ambystoma Tschudi, 1838 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | E. Br. of Sunday Cr., 10 mi NE of Glouster, Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | MB Trautman & RB Foster | W Branch, Wolf Creek, Penn. Twp |
![]() | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township |
All 185 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2025The National Weather Service names Mountville in 1 storm report between 2025 and 2025: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | $1,500 | Power outages occurred for residents along Smith Run Road due to downed trees and power lines. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elliott Crossroads | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Vicksville | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Wrightstown | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Shilling (historical) | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Lewis (historical) | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Bishopville | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Joy | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Rosseau | 4.4 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076472. 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.
























