Watkins, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Millcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43040. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee Hills quadrangle. It stands 961 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1901 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
15 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Shawnee Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 463 shownMuseums hold 463 specimens collected within 10 miles of Watkins between 1880 and 1975: 449 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 4 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758 | 1880 | not recorded | Marysville, Union, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1881 | not recorded | Pleasant Valley, Union, Ohio, USA |
| Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1894 | Mrs. Smyth | ||
![]() | Leucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ã…ngstr. | 1894 | not recorded | |
![]() | Tetraphis pellucida Hedw. | 1894 | not recorded | |
![]() | Thelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull. | 1894 | Mrs. Smyth | |
| Uredo | 1897 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
| Uromyces plumbarius Peck | 1897 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
| unnamed | 1914 | not recorded | ||
| Erasmoneura nigra (Gillette, 1898) | 1914 | H.T. Osborn | ||
![]() | Empoasca fabae (Harris, 1841) | 1918 | H.T. Osborn | |
![]() | Hydnum erinaceus Bull. | 1918 | Weir J. R. | Marysville |
All 463 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Watkins: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union Aggregates Company | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Union Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms nearby
1 since 2020The National Weather Service names Watkins in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Watkins | $2,000 | Several large maple trees were snapped at the trunks. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Creek Estates | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Buxton Meadows | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Pleasant Ridge | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Dipple | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| New Dover | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| New California | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Arnold | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Jerome | 4.9 miles | 15 |
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 Watkins | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7974686 | The 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 1065456. 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.





















