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.
Then and now
1908 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
11 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.
- 1908 USGS New London quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
In the 1896 county history
7,228 words on this townshipThe 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 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray | 1887 | Leonard, F.E. | "Rich woods, bluff of Vermillion River at Beecher's. |
![]() | Polyporus resinosus (Schrad.) Fr. | 1926 | F.O. Grover | East Branch, Vermilion River |
![]() | Cephalanthus occidentalis L. | 1888 | Shafer, J.A. | W of Brighton near Cleveland |
![]() | Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783) | 1893 | not recorded | Clarksfield, Vermillion River |
![]() | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1893 | not recorded | Vermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Ohio, Wakeman, Vermillion River |
![]() | Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck | 1893 | Hall W. B. | Wakeman |
![]() | Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802 | 1893 | A. Woolman | Vermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Vermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio |
![]() | Notropis chrysocephalus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1893 | A. Woolman | Ohio, Wakeman, Vermillion River |
![]() | Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817) | 1893 | not recorded | Vermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio |
![]() | Notropis spilopterus spilopterus | 1893 | A. Woolman | Ohio, Wakeman, Vermillion River |
All 527 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2017The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Fox | $75,000 | A thunderstorm downburst downed several trees and leveled a barn southeast of Clarksfield on Monroe Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarksfield | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| West Clarksfield | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Wakeman | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| New London | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Hartland | 7.3 miles | 10 | |
| Hartland Station | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| East Townsend | 8.6 miles | 10 | |
| Collins | 8.9 miles | 14 |
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.






















