Local events in Milledgeville
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How Milledgeville began
Milledgeville is a small village in the north of Jasper Township, Fayette County, laid out by James Hogue in 1855 around a newly built mill. Wikipedia gives its name as a compound of 'mill on the edge of ville.' It reached a peak population of 222 in 1960 and has since declined to under 100 residents.
Platted 1855, by James Hogue.
Where the name comes from
The name is an amalgamation of 'mill on the edge of ville,' reflecting the mill built on the town site in 1855.
Before the town
No named Native village, mound, or trail specific to the Milledgeville town site is recorded here. The land lay within shared Shawnee, Wyandot, Delaware (Lenape), and Miami hunting and travel territory of south-central Ohio before cession under the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
Nations recorded here: Shawnee, Wyandot, Lenape (Delaware), Miami.
Timeline
- — A post office named South Plymouth is established on August 26 with E. L. Ford as postmaster; it is renamed Milledgeville after the village grows, with Smith Rankin appointed postmaster on February 9, 1877 (the 1881 history says the office moved to Milledgeville in 1878).
- — James Hogue lays out the village a mile north of Plymouth at the crossing of the Palmer pike; its first building is the Milledgeville Mills, built by Straley, Creamer and Company, which pass through several owners to Jaral and Grove in 1870.
- — Jacob Creamer builds the first store room; he does business about two years and no more goods are sold in the village until 1878.
- — Dr. Cully becomes the village's first physician, staying about three years; Dr. Gaskin opens an office in 1865.
- — W. E. King opens the first blacksmith shop; Frank Smith, from Virginia, builds a dwelling and shoe shop in 1867.
- — G. L. McAllister builds the first brick store room, and C. M. Bush opens the first hotel; the two-story brick Lamb and Murphy block follows in 1880.
- — A Methodist church is built at Milledgeville, valued at $2,500; the village has about two hundred people, a mill, two groceries, a hotel, two physicians and a large general store.
- — The Milledgeville Bank is organized with C. E. Ford president and W. E. Smith cashier, twenty stockholders and $4,125 capital, later $20,000; a fire in the town on April 13, 1912 damages it, but it resumes business immediately.
- — The census counts 187 people; the village has a bank, clothing and shoe stores, restaurants, hardware, grain and lumber dealers and two physicians, with Methodist Protestant and Baptist churches.
- — The village reached its recorded peak population of 222.
- — The census recorded 98 residents, down from 112 in 2010.
Stories
A name that describes itself
Wikipedia gives the name Milledgeville as a run-together description of what stood there: a mill on the edge of a ville, laid out in 1855 the same year the mill went up, rather than a name taken from a founder or a hometown back east. The village reached its high point of 222 residents in 1960 and has been shrinking since, standing at 98 in the 2020 census.
A town that began with a mill
Milledgeville's first building was the Milledgeville Mills, put up in 1855 by Straley, Creamer and Company, the year James Hogue laid out the village a mile north of Plymouth on the Palmer pike. The mill passed through several owners by 1870, while the first store, Jacob Creamer's of 1856, lasted two years and left the town without a merchant until 1878. Growth came with the Dayton and Southeastern Railroad and then the Columbus and Maysville line: a brick store in 1879, the Lamb and Murphy block in 1880, a hotel run in turn by Bush, Rush and Dr. Spangler. The post office moved there from South Plymouth, which E. L. Ford had opened in 1852, and in 1903 the Milledgeville Bank opened with twenty stockholders.
Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · archive.org · archive.org
Water
No water-system data is linked to Milledgeville's ZIP codes yet.
Its ZIP codes
Each ZIP code that touches Milledgeville, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.
| ZIP | Share | Water | Radon | Home value | Schools | Flood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43142 Milledgeville | 100% | Mostly private wells | Too few radon tests | Median year built 1900 | Miami Trace Local · 4 stars overall | No digital FEMA flood map for this county |
Local government
Who holds office in Milledgeville, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Money issues on the ballot since 2020: 1 of 1 passed.
Ballot issues
| Date | Issue | For | Against | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-03 | Issue: Village of Milledgeville (Renewal) - Current Expenses, 8 mills, 5 years (8.0 mills, renewal) | 28 | 9 | Passed (75.68% for) |
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-05 | Member of Council | Richard A. Huff 8, 100.0% |
| 2019-11-05 | Mayor | Ronald C. Anderson 8, 100.0% |
Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.
Auditor of State record
- No fiscal caution, watch or emergency on the Auditor of State's lists.
- Basic Audit, 2024 to 2025, released 2026-05-19
The county
Fayette County: 4 ZIP codes, 10 cities, villages and townships, 26,068 people.
Nearby places
No nearby place shares a ZIP code with Milledgeville in the atlas yet.
Rain and snow
How much has actually fallen on Milledgeville, day by day, from 1893 to now. Daily totals, not averages.
- rain, last 30 days
- 0.72 in
- 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-29
- rain so far in 2026
- 41.8 in
- 5.6 in above normal for the date
- snow so far in 2026
- 20.1 in
- a normal year brings 20.9 in
- a normal year
- 42.5 in
- average of 30 years, 1991-2020
| Month | Rain (in) | Snow (in) | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 0.72 | — | 29 |
| September 2026 | 6.42 | — | 30 |
| August 2026 | 7.22 | — | 31 |
| July 2026 | 2.84 | — | 31 |
| June 2026 | 3.89 | — | 30 |
| May 2026 | 6.15 | — | 31 |
| April 2026 | 3.94 | — | 30 |
| March 2026 | 7.30 | 1.2 | 31 |
| February 2026 | 1.90 | 5.4 | 28 |
| January 2026 | 1.39 | 13.5 | 31 |
| December 2025 | 2.52 | 10.8 | 31 |
| November 2025 | 3.18 | 3.5 | 30 |
| Wettest year | 2011 — 58.5 in |
|---|---|
| Driest year | 1930 — 23.2 in |
| Snowiest year | 1917 — 51.8 in |
| Wettest day on record | 22 January 1982 — 7.18 in |
| Heaviest snowfall in a day | 26 November 1950 — 13.63 in |
| Deepest snow on the ground | 27 February 1905 — 25.98 in |
Estimated, not measured. No rain gauge has ever stood inside Milledgeville, so every figure here is worked out from the gauges around it - the nearest ones weighted most. Treat them as close estimates rather than readings.
46,439 days of records, 1893-01-01 to 2026-10-29. Source: NOAA NCEI GHCN-Daily, 3,240 gauges in and around Ohio. A day is "gauged" when a gauge standing inside the boundary reported it, and the value is the mean of those gauges. Otherwise it is interpolated by inverse distance from every gauge reporting within 50 miles. Nothing is carried forward, back-filled or smoothed. Against NOAA nClimDiv county monthly precipitation over 136,848 complete county-months (checked 2026-10-31): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-10-31 from the Cracked Buckeye precipitation archive. Snow is the softer number — snowfall is measured by hand with a ruler, no agency publishes a gridded county snowfall series, and blowing snow defeats every observer.
Quick answers
What county is Milledgeville, Ohio in?
Milledgeville is a village in Fayette County, Ohio, with 98 residents.
When was Milledgeville, Ohio founded?
Milledgeville was laid out 1855. Founders on record: James Hogue. Source
How did Milledgeville, Ohio get its name?
The name is an amalgamation of 'mill on the edge of ville,' reflecting the mill built on the town site in 1855. Source
What ZIP code is Milledgeville, Ohio?
Most of Milledgeville is in ZIP code 43142.
Where does Milledgeville, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Milledgeville: Mostly private wells.
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