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

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.

Mountville within Morgan County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Mountville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mountville, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

13 since 2006

The 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 burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15255
12 August 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBOC FIRE
7 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest329 BRAVO
17 June 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBURLEY FIRE
3 May 2014Naturalunder an acreWayne National ForestEAST
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestLAKE ROAD
8 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestFIERCE RIDGE
7 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestBLACK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 185 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Cercis canadensis L.Cercis canadensis L.1961William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
Specimen of Gleditsia triacanthos L.Gleditsia triacanthos L.1961William G. Gambill Jr.Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
Specimen of Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1961William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
A photograph of the species Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
A photograph of the species Sporobolus vaginiflorus, not of this specimenSporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood1898Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Merulius corium, not of this specimenMerulius corium (Pers.) Fr.1908Coker W. C.Chapel Hill
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1911B.R. BalesRinggold
A photograph of the species Ambystoma Tschudi, not of this specimenAmbystoma Tschudi, 18381927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)E. Br. of Sunday Cr., 10 mi NE of Glouster, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927MB Trautman & RB FosterW Branch, Wolf Creek, Penn. Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927Trautman, 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 2025

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMountville$1,500Power outages occurred for residents along Smith Run Road due to downed trees and power lines.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Elliott Crossroads2.4 miles13
Vicksville2.9 miles14
Wrightstown3.0 miles14
Shilling (historical)3.1 miles13
Lewis (historical)3.3 miles19
Bishopville3.4 miles14
Joy4.1 miles14
Rosseau4.4 miles13

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.