Wheelers Mill, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45662. It lies in Blake Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1911 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
In the 1903 county history
4,598 words on this townshipThe 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 Harrison Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Harrison Township - 4,598 words.
Fires nearby
37 since 2003The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Wheelers Mill between 2003 and 2020, burning about 190 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 | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15795 |
| 2 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14185 |
| 2 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13865 |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 804 shownMuseums hold 804 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wheelers Mill between 1885 and 1975: 741 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 21 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Bovistella Morgan | 1885 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan | 1893 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Peronospora polygoni Halst. | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Harpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc. | 1887 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm. | 1889 | Craig M. | Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River |
| unnamed | 1897 | Morgan | Preston | |
![]() | Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1897 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1897 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA |
| Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA | |
![]() | Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854 | 1898 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1898 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
All 804 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wheelers Mill: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sciotoville Clay | Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium | Occurrence | 1861 |
Storms nearby
2 since 2018The National Weather Service names Wheelers Mill in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2019 | Flood | Wheelers Mill | - | Swauger Valley Road and Ohio Route 335 at Wheelers Mill Road were closed due to flooding. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Wheelers Mill | - | Water rushed over Route 335, flooding the road and leaving debris. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Furnace | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Harrison Mills | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Minford | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Purdy Corners | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Egypt | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Fair Oaks | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Rigrish Addition | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Wallace Mills | 3.5 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1077172. 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.





















