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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Six Corners, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hicksville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43526. The Survey maps it on the Mark Center quadrangle.

Six Corners within Defiance County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Six Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Six Corners, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 533 shown

Museums hold 533 specimens collected within 10 miles of Six Corners between 1860 and 1973: 533 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by CLARENCE CLARK, D. Jordan et al., GEO MOORE 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 Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
Specimen of Aeshna constricta Say, 1840Aeshna constricta Say, 18401944H. PriceLittle (Krill's) Lake
Specimen of Boyeria vinosa (Say, 1840)Boyeria vinosa (Say, 1840)1944H. PriceLost Creek, Bricker Stock Farm on State Route 2
A photograph of the species Pomoxis annularis, not of this specimenPomoxis annularis Rafinesque, 18181860unknownHicksville
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1860unknownHicksville
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis heterolepis, not of this specimenNotropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 18931884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1884S. MeekHicksville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio

All 533 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Six Corners in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 1 flash 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSix Corners-EM relayed multiple reports of trees down in Milford Township.
June 2009Flash FloodSix Corners-Law enforcement officials reported flooding across the northern part of the county. Several locations along State Road 249 were affected between Lake Road, west of Farmer, to near US 127, east of Farmer.

Every storm recorded in Defiance 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
Cicero (historical)1.0 miles11
Rosedale2.5 miles11
Wilseyville (historical)2.7 miles11
Logan2.8 miles11
Hicksville3.5 miles13
El Grande Estates4.4 miles13
Mark Center4.8 miles11
Lawtonville (historical)5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1046309. 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.