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Wallace Mills, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45653. It stands on Laurel Lick Run. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle.

Wallace Mills within Scioto County

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wallace Mills, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Wallace Mills, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

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 1903 county history

1,326 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Madison Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Madison Township - 1,326 words.

Fires nearby

17 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Wallace Mills between 2003 and 2018, burning about 321 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined137 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE GRAVEL
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11606
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined128 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FURNACE
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1703
3 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 149 shown

Museums hold 149 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wallace Mills between 1885 and 1975: 93 Fungi, 43 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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 Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Cylindrocladium scoparium MorganCylindrocladium scoparium Morgan1893A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Harpographium fasciculatum, not of this specimenHarpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.1887A.P. MorganPreston
unnamed1897MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Planesticus Bonaparte, not of this specimenPlanesticus Bonaparte, 18541898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sphyrapicus varius, not of this specimenSphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA

All 149 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wallace Mills: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Comer Quarry and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scioto 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
Egypt1.0 miles12
Harrison Mills1.9 miles12
Pinkerman2.0 miles12
Frederick3.4 miles12
Minford3.4 miles12
Wheelers Mill3.5 miles12
Purdy Corners3.6 miles12
Massie (historical)3.8 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Wallace MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698526The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1077131. 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.