BlockWest Jefferson, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43543. The Survey maps it on the Montpelier quadrangle.
Then and now
1914 to 1990The 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 sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed 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.
- 1914 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Pioneer quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Montpelier quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,981 words on this townshipThe 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 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Albert Opdycke, another of the soldiers of 1812, with R. H. Gilson, moved from Trumbull county, Ohio, and settled in Jefferson township. He was one of the hardy pioneers and reared a large family of boys, the children of some of whom are still living in the county. He cleared up a large farm, was loved and respected by all, and was twice elected commissioner of Williams county. He lived more than four score years, and was one of the pillars of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His house was the home of itinerant preachers, who were always welcome. Jacob Boyers moved from Crawford county, Ohio, in 1835, an^ settled on the farm so long owned by George Arnold, and known as the Andrew Smith farm. Mr. Boyers was energetic, loved to give and take a joke, was full of fun and enjoyed himself in the company of his friends. George W. Perky came from Hancock county, Ohio, and settled on a farm now owned by Martin V. Bible, one-half mile west of West Jefferson. He was smart but an oddity. Once, as one of his neighbors was passing, Perky was chopping out the road in a cat swamp. He remarked that, "We read that God divided the land from the water, but here is a place he forgot." Andrew Ferrier and his sons moved from Coshocton county in 1835, and erected the first grist mill in Jefferson township, on Beaver creek, in 1837.
Passage source: 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.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 210 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 210 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Jefferson between 1890 and 1974: 207 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Barnes, T. N., Bauer, L. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854 | 1946 | H. Price | Northwest Township, Nettle Creek |
 | Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791) | 1948 | Kansas University | St. Joseph River, Florence |
 | Plowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc. | 1890 | Woodard Edwin | Stryker |
 | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio |
 | Aspidium Sw. | 1895 | Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley | Florence |
 | Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 | 1926 | Collector(s): unknown | No specific locality recorded |
 | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1927 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio |
 | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1927 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio |
 | Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 | 1927 | Price, H. (Homer) | Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA |
 | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Creek, within Bridgewater township, near Montpelier, Bridgewater township |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Creek, within Bridgewater township, near Montpelier, Bridgewater township |
 | Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Creek, within Bridgewater township, near Montpelier, Bridgewater township |
All 210 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Jefferson: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dennis Winzler Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| J.E. Brown Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tri-State Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Jefferson in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Hail | West Jefferson | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maplecrest | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hillcrest | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Holiday City | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Montpelier | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hallock | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Jefferson Estates | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Baldwin (historical) | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Deer Lick (historical) | 3.3 miles | 13 |
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 West Jefferson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22673251 | 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 1061740. 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.