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Cooney, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Northwest Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43518. The Survey maps it on the Nettle Lake quadrangle.

Cooney within Williams County

Then and now

1914 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cooney, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Cooney, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1905 county history

3,785 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Northwest Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Northwest Township - 3,785 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 221 shown

Museums hold 221 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cooney between 1895 and 1969: 218 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Barnes, T. N., Bauer, L., CLARENCE CLARK 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 unnamed1897F. L. StevensColumbia.
Specimen of Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854Gomphus exilis Selys, 18541946H. PriceNettle Creek near Nettle Lake
Specimen of Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854Gomphus lividus Selys, 18541946H. PriceNettle Creek, at ripples near Nettle Lake
A photograph of the species Aspidium Sw., not of this specimenAspidium Sw.1895Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyFlorence
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Creek, at inlet to Nettle Lake in Northwest township, 4.7 mi S of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Chaenobryttus gulosus, not of this specimenChaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier, 1829)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Erimyzon sucetta, not of this specimenErimyzon sucetta kennerlii (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma microperca, not of this specimenEtheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 18881929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanNettle Lake, northern northwest township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Bear Creek, at Edon, ~0.3 mi N of Edon, Florence township
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929MB TrautmanNettle Lake, northern northwest township

All 221 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2007

The National Weather Service names Cooney in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2017Thunderstorm WindCooney-The public reported several large trees were blown down just north of the Ohio turnpike, near mile marker 4.
June 2015FloodCooney-Numerous roads were closed due to high water for several days as periodic showers and storms slowed water levels from receding.
May 2010Flash FloodCooney-Local officials reported a few cars going off the roadway into ditches due to high water.
May 2007HailCooney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williams 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
Nettle Lake2.0 miles14
Northwest2.5 miles14
Columbia2.7 miles16
Berlin3.3 miles14
Billingstown3.5 miles16
Ainger3.6 miles14
Lake Seneca5.5 miles14
Bridgewater Center6.2 miles14

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 CooneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19866086The 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 1056250. 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.

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.

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.