Independence, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1986

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.

• 1907 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Defiance East quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Defiance East quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Defiance East quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 336 specimens collected within 10 miles of Independence between 1858 and 1974: 323 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Angle, E. (Eric) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Angle, E. (Eric), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hoschak, J. (John), Athearn, Herbert D. 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
	Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1908	not recorded	Auglaize River, Defiance
	Trifolium subcaulescens A.Gray	1858	J. S. Newberry	Fort Defiance
	Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Dipsacus fullonum L.	1892	Collector(s): William Sayer Moffatt	Defiance
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1893	not recorded	Defiance, Ohio
	Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	U.S. Fish Commission	DEFIANCE, OHIO
	Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1893	P. Kirsch	Anglaize River, Defiance
	Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	not recorded	Defiance, Auglaize River
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio
	Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio
	Labidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio

All 336 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Independence: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Defiance County

The National Weather Service names Independence in 1 storm report between 2001 and 2001: 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.

Every storm recorded in Defiance County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061237. 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.

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.