West Liberty, 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.

1915 1994

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.

• 1915 USGS Bucyrus quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Bucyrus quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS North Robinson quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Robinson quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Robinson quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Robinson quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Vernon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 142 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Liberty between 1842 and 1973: 104 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beal, L. E., Benjamin, J. R., Chase, H. (Hazel) 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
	Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1842	William S. Sullivant
	Peronospora sordida Berk. & Broome	1896	F.L. Stevens	Olentangy Valley
	Septoria E.M.Fries, 1819	1896	F. L. Stevens	Olentangy Valley; 40.761724 -82.873517
	Cirriphyllum piliferum (Hedw.) Grout	1842	W. S. Sullivant
	Drepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.	1842	W. S. Sullivant
	Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1844	not recorded
	Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.	1897	W.A. Kellerman
	Stereum versicolor (Sw.) Fr., 1838	1897	W. A. Kellerman	Galion.
	Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf.	1909	Jennings, O.E.	2-3 mi W of Plymouth
	Arisaema dracontium (L.) Schott	1909	Jennings, O.E.	2-3 mi W of Plymouth
	Euphorbia vermiculata Raf.	1909	Jennings, O.E.	2-3 mi W of Plymouth
	Galium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray	1909	Jennings, O.E.	2-3 mi W of Plymouth

All 142 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Liberty in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2024: 2 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 Crawford 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 1061742. 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.