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

Rinard Mills, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45767. It stands on Bell Hill. The Survey maps it on the Rinard Mills quadrangle.

Rinard Mills within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rinard Mills, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Rinard Mills, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Crum Bridge, Spanning Little Muskingum River, TR 384A (formerly Old Camp Road), Rinard Mills, Monroe County, OH
Crum Bridge, Spanning Little Muskingum River, TR 384A (formerly Old Camp Road), Rinard Mills, Monroe County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Walter Ring House, North side of Township Road 575 at Little Muskingum River, Rinard Mills, Monroe County, OH
Walter Ring House, North side of Township Road 575 at Little Muskingum River, Rinard Mills, Monroe County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

13 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rinard Mills between 2013 and 2020, burning about 28 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 burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 May 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWayne National ForestLAMPING FIRE
9 April 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources651
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresWayne National ForestOLD CAMP ROAD
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources648
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources769

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 114 shown

Museums hold 114 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rinard Mills between 1853 and 1975: 100 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 4 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Wood & Tilley, S. G., Albert Hazen Wright, Albert Wright 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus fowleri, not of this specimenAnaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1853not recordedMarietta
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Thamnophis Fitzinger, not of this specimenThamnophis Fitzinger, 18431853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1883Albert Hazen WrightMarietta
A photograph of the species Arenaria serpyllifolia, not of this specimenArenaria serpyllifolia L.1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry.
A photograph of the species Dysphania botrys, not of this specimenDysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry.
Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd.1928Archer, W. A.Greenbrier

All 114 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Rinard Mills in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 1996Flash FloodRinard Mills1 killedno account filed
March 2017FloodRinard Mills$10,000Department of highways reported that state route 26 was closed in both directions about 2 miles north of the Washington and Monroe county line due to high water.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindRinard Mills$2,000Member of the public reported scattered trees dwon in the area from strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2024FloodRinard Mills-State Route 26 was closed due to flooding.
April 2024Flash FloodRinard Mills-State Road 26 closed due flooding.
February 2019FloodRinard Mills-The Ohio Department of Transportation reported flooded roads in the vicinity of Rinard Mills.
December 2018FloodRinard Mills-The county Department of Highways reported that Route 26 was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Cline1.6 miles16
Poulton2.4 miles18
Jericho3.4 miles18
Quarry (historical)3.5 miles16
Brownsville3.8 miles18
Cross Keys (historical)4.0 miles16
Way4.2 miles17
Greenbrier4.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065545. 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.