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.
Then and now
1905 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 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.
- 1905 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
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.
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Fires nearby
13 since 2013The 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 burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LAMPING FIRE |
| 9 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 651 |
| 31 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | OLD CAMP ROAD |
| 31 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 648 |
| 28 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 769 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 114 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Taphrina sacchari Jenkins | 1922 | O.L. Inman | Antioch College |
![]() | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
| Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta | |
![]() | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | David M. Dennis | 3 mi. N Graysville |
![]() | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | 1883 | Albert Hazen Wright | Marietta |
![]() | Arenaria serpyllifolia L. | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry. |
![]() | Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry. |
| Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd. | 1928 | Archer, W. A. | Greenbrier |
All 114 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
7 since 1996The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Rinard Mills | 1 killed | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Flood | Rinard Mills | $10,000 | Department 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rinard Mills | $2,000 | Member of the public reported scattered trees dwon in the area from strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| January 2024 | Flood | Rinard Mills | - | State Route 26 was closed due to flooding. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Rinard Mills | - | State Road 26 closed due flooding. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Rinard Mills | - | The Ohio Department of Transportation reported flooded roads in the vicinity of Rinard Mills. |
| December 2018 | Flood | Rinard Mills | - | The county Department of Highways reported that Route 26 was closed due to flooding. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cline | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Poulton | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| Jericho | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Quarry (historical) | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Brownsville | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Cross Keys (historical) | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Way | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Greenbrier | 4.2 miles | 17 |
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.

























