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

White Fox, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clarksfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44889. The Survey maps it on the Brighton quadrangle.

White Fox within Huron County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of White Fox, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of White Fox, surveyed 1908

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.

In the 1896 county history

7,228 words on this township

The county history of 1896 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Clarksfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Clarksfield Township - 7,228 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 527 shown

Museums hold 527 specimens collected within 10 miles of White Fox between 1887 and 1975: 359 Plantae, 99 Animalia, 65 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, C. E. Jennings, C. Rutter 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 Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.GrayDryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray1887Leonard, F.E."Rich woods, bluff of Vermillion River at Beecher's.
Specimen of Polyporus resinosus (Schrad.) Fr.Polyporus resinosus (Schrad.) Fr.1926F.O. GroverEast Branch, Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Cephalanthus occidentalis, not of this specimenCephalanthus occidentalis L.1888Shafer, J.A.W of Brighton near Cleveland
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedClarksfield, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedVermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893A. WoolmanOhio, Wakeman, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium clavipes, not of this specimenGymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck1893Hall W. B.Wakeman
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893A. WoolmanVermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1893A. WoolmanVermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis chrysocephalus, not of this specimenNotropis chrysocephalus (Rafinesque, 1820)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Wakeman, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1893not recordedVermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis spilopterus, not of this specimenNotropis spilopterus spilopterus1893A. WoolmanOhio, Wakeman, Vermillion River

All 527 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2017

The National Weather Service names White Fox in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWhite Fox$75,000A thunderstorm downburst downed several trees and leveled a barn southeast of Clarksfield on Monroe Road.

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Clarksfield3.2 miles10
West Clarksfield3.9 miles10
Wakeman5.4 miles14
New London7.3 miles12
Hartland7.3 miles10
Hartland Station7.5 miles10
East Townsend8.6 miles10
Collins8.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063090. 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.