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Spring Mill, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44903. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield North quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 79 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
14 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.
- 1915 USGS Crestline quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Crestline quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Crestline quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mansfield North quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Mansfield North quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Mansfield North quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Mansfield North quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
15,578 words on this townshipHistory of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Springfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first saw-mill was built in 1817, by Condon & Welch, on the northwest quarter of Section 1, and the first grist-mill by Ex-Governor Mordecai Bartley, on the same section, where Spring Mill now is. This mill has l)eeu burned down, and destroyed or removed, and rebuilt several times. About the same time, the Purdy mill, before mentioned, was built, and also one on the head-waters of Clear Fork. Xear this last was also built a saw-mill and several stills for the manufacture of spirits. These mflls gave to the place the name of Millsl)orougli. It is pictui-esquely situated among the hills, and started with fair promise for a future tovyn. It has the honor attached to age, being the first town in the township. It was laid out on part of the northeast and northwest quarters of Section 28, by John S. Marshall, Deputy County Surveyor, October 29, 1831. The mills wore built in 1818, b}' John Garretson, who came from New York. Before the establishment of these mills, settlers went as far as Mount Vernon, in Knox Count}', to do their milling. Uncle Jesse Edgerton, as he was called, occasionally hitched four horses to his large Penn- S3-lvania wagon - "schooner" - and taking his own and his neighbors' grists, hauled them to Mount Yernon. In addition to his mills, Garretson also built a house in which he kept hotel for some time. This stand was afterward kept by John Martin. The place at one time - about 1830-35 - boasted of two dry-goods stores, kept by John Evans and John Williams. The earl}' settlers in this part of the township were James Woods, John Garretson, Samuel and David Mitchell. Joseph and Lewis Day, John Milligan and Samuel Estel. Estel was a veteran of the war of 1812, and established a tanyard in 1818 on Section 23. John Stewart did most of the surve3'ing in this township. The railroads assisted in the death of Millsborough. It has been dead many 3'ears ; even the sound of the mills has ceased.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Spring Mill between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 February 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 677 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 677 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spring Mill between 1835 and 1975: 491 Plantae, 156 Animalia, 30 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Berra, T. (Tim), Chase, H. (Hazel), Colby, J. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783) | 1892 | not recorded | Mansfield |
 | Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798) | 1892 | not recorded | Mansfield |
 | Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl | 1895 | Wilkinson, E. | Mansfield. |
 | Alisma subcordatum Raf. | 1835 | Wilkinson, E. | Mansfield |
 | Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd. | 1835 | Wilkinson, E. | Mansfield |
 | Carex stricta Lam. | 1835 | Herb. of E. Wilkinson | Mansfield |
 | Erigeron bellidifolius Muhl. ex Willd. | 1835 | Wilkinson,E. 5229 | [USA, Ohio] Mansfield, Ohio. |
 | Penthorum sedoides L. | 1835 | E. Wilkinson | Mansfield |
 | Verbascum thapsus L. | 1835 | Wilkinson, E. | Mansfield |
 | Achillea millefolium L. | 1836 | Wilkinson, E. | Mansfield |
 | Angelica atropurpurea L. | 1836 | Wilkinson, E. | Mansfield |
 | Apocynum androsaemifolium L. | 1836 | Wilkinson, E. | Mansfield |
All 677 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spring Mill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empire Steel-Cyclops Div/ Mansfield | Iron | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Mill in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Flood | Spring Mill | $200,000 | Two and a half inches of rain fell over saturated ground in Mansfield Ohio on the evening of the 8th and into the early morning hours of the 9th. Most of the flooding that occurred in Mansfield was caused by the excessive runoff and poor drainage. The fire department evacuated homes using boats along 5th Street in downtown. |Flooding on Park Avenue East put roads and railroad tracks underwater. Some cars were submerged. On Mulberry Street, a few inches of water inundated the first floor of some businesses. The rain caused the already swollen Rocky Fork, a tributary to the Mohican River, to come out of its banks in the northern part of town. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Mill | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Mill | - | Tree downed about three-miles NNW of Ontario and another tree downed about six-miles east of Shelby. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toledo Junction | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Richland (historical) | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Stewart (historical) | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Amoy | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Maybee | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Myers (historical) | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Roseland | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Sunnyview | 3.1 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068223. 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.
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.