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

Rock Mill, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43112. It stands on Wilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amanda quadrangle.

Rock Mill within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rock Mill, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Rock Mill, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the county-history sources

5,578 words on this township

A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Greenfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Joseph Loveland and Hezekiah Smith, New Englanders, built a grist and saw-mill combined at the forks of Hocking in 1800. The place is familiarly known at present as the Rock Mill. It is on the old Columbus road, seven miles from Lancaster. These men are said to have sold goods at their mill which were brought on pack-horses from Detroit. They also sold whisky, charging one dollar a quart for it. The Indians often bought it and took a big drunk, always leaving one or two of their number sober to restrain the drinkers, a custom not observed by their more civilized brethern of the " palefaced " race.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Greenfield Township.

Fires near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Rock Mill between 2012 and 2020, burning about 29 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	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15201
16 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15761
8 March 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15458
7 March 2012	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Wayne National Forest	SR 522
4 November 2020	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15878

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,271 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,271 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rock Mill between 1843 and 1975: 1,781 Animalia, 395 Fungi, 86 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Bales, B. R., Birch, W. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur	1891	Freda Detmers	Rock Mill
Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.	1892	W.A. Kellerman
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens	Lancaster
Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	near Lancaster
Phyllogonium norvegicum Brid.	1843	Gray, A.; W. S. Sullivant	near Lancaster
Bruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.	1849	C. L. Lesquereux	Lancaster
Dicranodontium denudatum (Brid.) E.Britton	1849	C. L. Lesquereux
Dicranum condensatum Hedw.	1849	C. L. Lesquereux	Lancaster
Aecidium Pers.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium cimicifugatum (Schwein.) Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Near Amanda
Aecidium compositarum Mart.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium galii Pers.	1883	Kellerman, W.A.	Amanda

All 2,271 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rock Mill: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Davis Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Davis Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Favil Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Igel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jimmys Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fairfield 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wesley Chapel	1.1 miles	12
Hooker	2.8 miles	12
Greencastle	3.1 miles	16
Royalton	3.2 miles	12
Colonial Estates	3.4 miles	12
Carroll	3.5 miles	12
Slough	4.3 miles	16
Fairfield Farms	4.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062987. 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.