Franklin Junction, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1913 1990

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.

• 1913 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1944 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000

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, published 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Franklin Junction between 2018 and 2019, burning about 22 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Alvordton
• Primrose
• Pioneer

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 47 specimens collected within 10 miles of Franklin Junction between 1893 and 1966: 47 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Cameron, DeRoth, Gilbert & Cocanour, Homer F. Price 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
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township
	Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township
	Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township
	Notropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township
	Notropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township
	Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1940	Cameron	St. Joseph R. - Maumee R., W. Branch St. Joseph R.
	Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1940	Cameron	St. Joseph R. - Maumee R., W. Branch St. Joseph R.
	Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)	1940	Cameron	St. Joseph R. - Maumee R., W. Branch St. Joseph R.
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1941	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wade, W. (William)	Mill Creek, at Harrison Lake, 3.2 mi SW of Fayette, Gorham township
	Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1941	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wade, W. (William)	Mill Creek, at Harrison Lake, 3.2 mi SW of Fayette, Gorham township

All 47 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064675. 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.