BlockFrom the record
6 National Register listings published here · 44 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1893 to 1930.
Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service
Williams County, Ohio
60 topographic sheets and 35 fire insurance atlases across 5 places.
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What the record shows
- 5 places in this county were surveyed for fire insurance: Bryan, Stryker, Montpelier, Edgerton, West Unity, between 1884 and 1951.
- 35 fire insurance atlases survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
- 811 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
- 6 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 4 buildings and 2 districts.
- 2 of the 6 listings were added during the 1970s.
- The Geographic Names Information System records 61 populated places in this county; 61 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
- 3 public-domain county histories, 1905 and 1920, supply 56,209 words of narrative reproduced here.
Photographs
1 photograph, 2016Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress
Places on the National Register
6Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.
| Photograph | Property | Type | Listed | Reference |
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| Bryan Downtown Historic District | district | 1983 | 83004347 | |
| Fountain City Historic District | district | 1990 | 90001501 | |
 | James Delos Hill House | building | 1997 | 97000509 |
 | Kunkle Log House | building | 1976 | 76001549 |
 | Stryker Depot | building | 1989 | 89001014 |
 | Williams County Courthouse | building | 1973 | 73001552 |
Bird's-eye views and land ownership maps
1Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.
Photographs from libraries nationwide
1 of 2 shownSelected from the Digital Public Library of America's 2 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.
The county from the air
40 shownFlown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 901 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 40 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.
Weather records
13 stations, 3 gagesThe thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.
- MONTPELIER 1893 to 2026, hottest 42.8 C, coldest -31.7 C
- EDGERTON 1948 to 1951
- STRYKER 1962 to 2016
- BRYAN 2 SE 2006 to 2026, hottest 41.1 C, coldest -28.9 C
- BRYAN 1.3 E 2009 to 2015
- PIONEER 4.6 WNW 2009 to 2015
- ALVORDTON 0.5 E 2010 to 2026
- PIONEER 0.3 NE 2010 to 2013
- PIONEER 4.6 WNW 2014 to 2016
- PIONEER 2.3 S 2014 to 2026
- EDON 4S 2016 to 2026
- BRYAN 2.1 NW 2022 to 2026
- BRYAN 2.1 NNW 2025 to 2026
- Tiffin River at Stryker OH 1921 to 2026
- St Joseph River near Blakeslee OH 1926 to 1932
- WEST BRANCH ST. JOSEPH RIVER NR NETTLE LAKE, OH 2018 to 2026
The 1950 census, district by district
41 districtsWho lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.
- 86-1Brady township: West Unity village: West Unity village - That part north of Jackson
- 86-2West Unity village - That part south of Jackson
- 86-3Brady township - That part outside West Unity village
- 86-4Bridgewater township
- 86-5Bryan township, coextensive with Bryan city: Bryan city - That part Bounded by City limits; City limits; High; Allen
- 86-6Bryan city - That part Bounded by City limits; Allen; High; Main
- 86-7Bryan city - That part Bounded by City limits; Main; High; Portland, Portland extended
- 86-8Bryan city - That part Bounded by City limits; Portland extended, Portland; High; City limits
- 86-9Bryan city - That part Bounded by High; Beech; Centre; City limits
- 86-10Bryan city - That part Bounded by High; Main; City limits; Centre, Beech
- 86-11Bryan city - That part Bounded by High; City limits; Wilson; Main
- 86-12Bryan city - That part Bounded by Wilson; City limits; City limits; Main
- 86-13Center township: Center township - That part north of U.S. Hwy. 6
- 86-14Center township - That part south of U.S. Hwy. 6
- 86-15Florence township: Blakeslee village
- 86-16Edon village
- 86-17Florence township - That part north of Wabash Railroad, outside Edon village
- 86-18Florence township - That part south of Wabash Railroad, outside Blakeslee and Edon villages
- 86-19Jefferson township: Jefferson township - That part east of U.S. Hwy. 127 and State Hwy. 569
- 86-20Jefferson township - That part west of U.S. Hwy. 127 and State Hwy. 569
- 86-21Madison township: Pioneer village
- 86-22AN/A
- 86-22BN/A
- 86-23Mill Creek township: Alvordton village
- 86-24Mill Creek township - That part outside Alvordton village
- 86-25Northwest township: Northwest township - That part east of State Hwy. 49, and south of U.S. Hwy. 20
- 86-26Northwest township - That part west of State Hwy. 49, and north of U.S. Hwy. 20
- 86-27Pulaski township
- 86-28St. Joseph township: Edgerton village: Edgerton village - That part north of New York Central Railroad
- 86-29Edgerton village - That part south of New York Central Railroad
- 86-30St. Joseph township - That part outside Edgerton village
- 86-31Springfield township: Stryker village: Stryker village - That part north of New York Central Railroad
- 86-32Stryker village - That part south of New York Central Railroad
- 86-33Springfield township - That part outside Stryker village
- 86-34Superior township: Montpelier village: Montpelier village - That part Bounded by Village limits; Village limits; Village limits; S. East Ave., S. East Ave. extended, S. East Ave., S. East Ave. extended
- 86-35Montpelier village - That part Bounded by Village limits; S. East Ave. extended, S. Kast Ave.; Main; Village limits
- 86-36Montpelier village - That part Bounded by Main; Empire; Depot, Jonesville, Randolph, Mill, Mill extended, Wabash Railroad; Village limits
- 86-37Montpelier village - That part Bounded by Main; S. East Ave., Jefferson, S. Platt; Wabash Railroad; Mill extended, Mill, Randolph, Jonesville, Depot, Empire
- 86-38Montpelier village - That part Bounded by Jefferson; S. East Ave., S. East Ave. extended, S. East Ave.; Village limits; Village limits, Wabash Railway, S. Platt
- 86-39Superior township - That part north of State Hwy. 107 and U.S. Hwy. 20 Alt., outside Montpelier village
- 86-40Superior township - That part south of State Hwy. 107 and U.S. Hwy. 20 Alt., outside Montpelier village
Businesses named in the atlases
44 businessesEvery Sanborn volume opens with a printed index naming the town's mills, tanneries, hotels and works by proprietor. Those indexes were read off the scanned sheets by machine and then matched to each other, so a business surveyed four times appears here once, with the years it survived. 5 of these 44 were named in more than one atlas. Each carries a crop of the line it was read from: the spelling is the recogniser's and the 1880s lithographer's, and the scan behind it is the proof.
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German Lutheran Church
Church
named once, in the 1930 atlas
Appears in 1930
Read elsewhere as Lutheran Church.
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Krose, H., Planing-mill
Mill
1901 to 1913, named in 3 atlases
Read elsewhere as Krose, H., Planing Mill.
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F'ountain City Brewery
Brewery
1899 to 1905, named in 2 atlases
Read elsewhere as Fountain City Brewery.
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Methodist Episcopal Church, 1
Church
named once, in the 1923 atlas
Appears in 1923
Read elsewhere as Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Presbyterian Church
Church
named once, in the 1905 atlas
Appears in 1905
Read elsewhere as First Presbyterian Church.
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Wildfire, 2002
1 fireEvery wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 1 of them, burning under an acre. None started naturally and none was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.
| Reported cause | Fires |
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| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
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| 23 October 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
Storms, 1957 to 2026
60 of 196 shownThe NOAA Storm Events Database holds 196 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 25 injuries and about $31,680,500 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
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| Thunderstorm Wind | 138 |
| Hail | 43 |
| Tornado | 9 |
| Flash Flood | 4 |
| Lightning | 1 |
| Flood | 1 |
The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
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| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | 1 killed | Local newspapers reported that a 18 year old male was killed as a result of strong winds blowing down a 12 foot high interior cinder block wall. The incident happened at a construction site at the Edgerton High School. No details were provided if the wall had been secured or was free standing. |
| March 1991 | Tornado (F3) | not stated | 18 hurt, $25,000,000 | no account filed |
| May 1992 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | 3 hurt | no account filed |
| April 1988 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | 2 hurt | no account filed |
| August 1965 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | 1 hurt, $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | 1 hurt, $200,000 | An intense microburst with estimated winds at 100 mph was surveyed in the town of Edgerton. A large portion of the upper story of the old town hall building next to the fire department was blown in with loss of much of the roof. Debris from this structure damaged nearby vehicles and the flea market building across the street including a portion of the south-facing wall getting blown out. One person was injured at this location from falling debris. In addition, a freight container was blown off an intermodal train and there was significant tree damage in town. Wind damage path was about 3 miles long and a quarter of a mile wide. |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Williams County | $3,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 1957 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Lightning | Stryker | $150,000 | Newspaper report of lightning striking home and entering kitchen through electrical service. Fire started in kitchen and spread through the home. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edon | $75,000 | Local law enforcement officials reported numerous trees down across the county. Many of these were in a swath from Edon northeast to Kunkle. A tree fell onto a house in the town of Kunkle with trees onto several cars in West Unity. Damage is estimated at $75,000. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Union and | $50,000 | Numerous trees were downed. A total of 42 utility poles were downed resulting in loss of electricity for much of the county. A double wide mobile home in transportation on County Road 50 was blown over. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | $40,000 | Mobile home destroyed. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $30,000 | Trees were downed in several locations, some on power lines, vehicles, and structures. A barn was severely damaged. |
| April 1969 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 1964 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1961 | Tornado (F3) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | $20,000 | Numerous trees down in the area of country Road K and County Road 10. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | $20,000 | Numerous trees were down blocking the road. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pioneer | $20,000 | Trees were reported down in and around Pioneer. A few trees fell onto vehicles trapping the occupants. No injuries were reported. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryan | $20,000 | Power poles were bent over across the county. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $20,000 | Trees, tree limbs and power lines were reported down across the county. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $20,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down across the county. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Melbern | $20,000 | Power lines and trees down throughout southern part of county. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryan | $20,000 | THE FRONTIER CABLEVISION BUILDING LOST PART OF ITS ROOF. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Unity | $20,000 | A LINE OF LARGE UTILITY POLES WERE SNAPPED OR BLOWN DOWN. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | $15,000 | Local media reported a semi truck was blown over near the intersection of Ohio 15 and County Road I. No injuries were reported. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Melbourne | $15,000 | Trees were downed, at least one on a house. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stryker | $10,000 | A local library and Subway were damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts. There were also downed trees and power lines in southern Williams county. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | $10,000 | A large tree branch went through the roof of a home in the 14000 block of CR F. Rain water intruded into the home. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryan | $10,000 | Tree blown down onto trailer. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $10,000 | Williams County sheriff reported trees and power lines down. Some trees had fallen onto houses. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | $7,500 | Outbuilding lost its roof. Roof was toppled into adjacent field. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bridgewater Center | $5,000 | Trees down in the area of Bridgewater Center. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $5,000 | Photos on Twitter show several large tree limbs down and one tree downed in Edgerton, intersection of North Michigan and Gas. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bridgewater Center | $5,000 | Tree limbs were down on US 20, west of Pioneer. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $5,000 | County officials reported tree limbs down as well as a few power lines. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alvordton | $5,000 | A tree as well as some power lines were reported down across a road near Kinkle. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | $5,000 | Trees were downed and large hail fell which damaged some crops. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $5,000 | Trees were downed, some on power lines. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Edgerton | $4,000 | Brief touchdown damaged barn, some structural damage to house, tree snapped. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | $3,000 | A number of trees and powerlines were blown down across Williams County. |
| April 1959 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $2,500 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edon | $2,000 | Several 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs were downed. Minor crop damage noted as well. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bridgewater Center | $1,000 | Trees damaged in the area of CR 11 and Road S. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kunkle | $1,000 | A large tree was down in Kunkle. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Unity | $1,000 | Large tree limbs snapped in West Unity. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pioneer | $1,000 | Several 3 to 8 inch diameter trees limb downed. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $1,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bridgewater Center | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $500 | Few trees down near Edgerton. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryan | - | The public reported a tree was blown down halfway across County Road 13 off of W High Street. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallock | - | Several power poles and lines were down in the area of CR 15 and CR G. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Montpelier | - | Photos on Facebook indicate several quarter size hailstones. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Pioneer | - | Photos on Facebook of several quarter size hailstones. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ainger | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | Amateur radio operators reported power lines down. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryan | - | The public reported corn was flattened in the area as well as several trees blown down. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blakesley | - | The public estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | The public reported large tree branches were down onto a house as well onto an adjacent road. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryan | - | Semi truck blown over. |
Mines and quarries
7 recordedThe Survey's mineral resources record lists 7 workings inside this county. 2 still produce and 5 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
| Commodity | Workings |
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| Sand and Gravel, Construction | 7 |
The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
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| Dennis Winzler Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hoffman Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| J.E. Brown Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pioneer Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tri-State Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tri-State South Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Weber Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Collected here, 1890 to 1974
8 of 518 shownMuseum specimens collected in and around this county - inside the rectangle that bounds it - and catalogued with a date and a place: 518 of them, by kingdom 490 animalia, 24 fungi, 3 plantae, 1 unrecorded. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), USNM, Ohio State University - Amphibian Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), UMMZ, Ohio State University - Reptile Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) among others, and each settlement page carries the specimens collected near it.
The oldest of them. A specimen proves something was collected on that day; its absence proves nothing.
| Photograph | Year | Species | Kingdom | Where | Collector | Catalogue |
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 | 1890 | Plowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc. | Fungi | Stryker | Woodard Edwin | BPI BPI 642651 |
 | 1893 | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | Animalia | Edgerton, Fish Lake | not recorded | USNM USNM 21682 |
 | 1893 | Apalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827) | Animalia | Edgerton | not recorded | USNM USNM 21567 |
 | 1893 | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | Animalia | St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio | P. Kirsch | USNM USNM 76135 |
 | 1893 | Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801) | Animalia | Edgerton, Fish Lake | not recorded | USNM USNM 21645 |
 | 1893 | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | Animalia | Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio | P. Kirsch | USNM USNM 76156 |
 | 1893 | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | Animalia | St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio | P. Kirsch | USNM USNM 76177 |
 | 1893 | Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877 | Animalia | St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio | P. Kirsch | USNM USNM 76117 |
The townships, in 1920
56,209 wordsA Standard History of Williams County, Ohio; an Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development; devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 11 are reproduced here in full. Each row shows the township's own shape and where it lies in the county, drawn from the Census Bureau's boundary. Which settlements belong to which township is computed from that same boundary, not taken from the book.
The county's history books
262,163 words2 books written about this county, cut here where the book itself is cut, at its printed chapters: 15 chapters in all. Every chapter is public domain, machine-read from the scan and reproduced complete. A chapter already given under one of the county's towns is not repeated in this list.
The County of Williams : a History of Williams County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days, with Special Chapters on Various Subjects, Including Each of the Different Townships ; Also a Biographical Department (1905)
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| Chapter 1: Williams County Antiquities | 6,141 words |
| Chapter 2: Early Jurisdiction | 6,906 words |
| Chapter 3: The Formative Period | 10,166 words |
| Chapter 4: The Boundary Dispute | 7,608 words |
| Chapter 5: From 1841 to 1861 | 8,460 words |
| Chapter 6: The County's War Record | 7,220 words |
| Chapter 7: The Last Forty Years | 6,287 words |
| Chapter 8: Politics and Official Honors | 6,401 words |
| Chapter 9: Resources and Early Enterprises | 8,024 words |
| Chapter 10: Educational Development | 5,633 words |
| Chapter 11: Bench and Bar | 6,717 words |
| Chapter 12: The Medical Profession | 2,902 words |
| Chapter 17: Centre Township | 1,701 words |
| Chapter 21: Millcreeic Township | 1,297 words |
A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio; an Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development; (1920)
| Chapter | Length |
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| The whole text | 176,700 words in 12 parts |
Every populated place in the county
61Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 5 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.
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Bryan
Bryan city · 43506 · On Miller Creek · Bryan quadrangle
13 sheets, 1914 to 1986
Fire insurance: 9 atlases
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Edgerton
St. Joseph township · 43517 · On Fish Creek · Edgerton quadrangle
12 sheets, 1914 to 1986
Fire insurance: 6 atlases
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Montpelier
Montpelier village · 43543 · Montpelier quadrangle
13 sheets, 1914 to 1990
Fire insurance: 7 atlases
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Stryker
Springfield township · 43557 · On Leatherwood Creek · West Unity quadrangle
14 sheets, 1913 to 1990
Fire insurance: 8 atlases
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West Unity
Brady township · 43570 · On Walnut Run · West Unity quadrangle
14 sheets, 1913 to 1990
Fire insurance: 5 atlases
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Baldwin
Jefferson township · 43570 · West Unity quadrangle
14 sheets, 1913 to 1990
No longer a settlement
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Deer Lick
Superior township · 43543 · On Nettle Creek · Montpelier quadrangle
13 sheets, 1914 to 1990
No longer a settlement
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Denmark
St. Joseph township · 43517 · On Bluff Run · Edgerton quadrangle
12 sheets, 1914 to 1986
No longer a settlement
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Edon Home Court
Florence township · 43518 · On Matthews Creek · Edon quadrangle
14 sheets, 1940 to 1990
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Hamer
Mill Creek township · 43570 · On West Fork Mill Creek · Alvordton quadrangle
14 sheets, 1913 to 1990
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Hickory Hills
Springfield township · 43557 · On Owl Creek · Ridgeville Corners quadrangle
12 sheets, 1907 to 1986
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Pleasant Meadows
Center township · 43506 · On Miller Creek · Bryan quadrangle
13 sheets, 1914 to 1986
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Terrace Aires
Springfield township · 43557 · On Leatherwood Creek · West Unity quadrangle
14 sheets, 1913 to 1990
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Valley Springs Addition
St. Joseph township · 43517 · On Bluff Run · Edgerton quadrangle
12 sheets, 1914 to 1986
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West Buffalo
Florence township · 43517 · On Bear Creek · Blakeslee quadrangle
13 sheets, 1914 to 1990
No longer a settlement
The vanished settlements of Williams County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.
Recorded here
Bryan, Ohio
13 topographic sheets and 9 fire insurance atlases, 1884 to 1948
Stryker, Ohio
14 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases, 1888 to 1951
Montpelier, Ohio
13 topographic sheets and 7 fire insurance atlases, 1893 to 1944
Edgerton, Ohio
12 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases, 1895 to 1938
West Unity, Ohio
14 topographic sheets and 5 fire insurance atlases, 1899 to 1928
Everything this county holds
The complete index, with nothing left out. Each of these is a separate record with its own page: a federal survey report, or the case file that argued a property on to the National Register. Both are public domain and reproduced word for word.
Nomination case files
4 case filesThe vanished settlements of Williams County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.
Provenance
- Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
- Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
- Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
- 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.