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

Widowville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Vermillion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44805. The Survey maps it on the Perrysville quadrangle.

Widowville within Ashland County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Widowville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Widowville, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Vermillion township, in the words of 1863.

1863, Vermillion Township

Coulter Family

"The Coulter family are known as among the earliest settlers at Perrysville, on the Black Fork. Thomas Coulter (the father of John) was born in the State of New York, and moved from thence with his father to the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, and was living there at the time of the Wyoming massacre.

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Fires nearby

8 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Widowville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8808
20 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15814
9 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15500
20 March 2015Debris and open burning171 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources484
17 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1092
27 February 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11609
6 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15943
9 January 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15379

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 599 shown

Museums hold 599 specimens collected within 10 miles of Widowville between 1846 and 1975: 575 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A.E. Daugherty, Auten 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 Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) DouinAnthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin1923Mrs. Bayard R. Taylornear Londonville
Mediorhynchus grandis Van Cleave, 19161846P. HarwoodAshland
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Smith, D. W.Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Danthonia spicata, not of this specimenDanthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.1897Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyVermilion Township
A photograph of the species Perlinella ephyre, not of this specimenPerlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839)1899R.C. Osburn
A photograph of the species Tyto alba, not of this specimenTyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)1900Fuller, W. J.Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1902not recordedNo Further Locality Data
Valsa Fr.1913Stevens N. E.Windsor
A photograph of the species Limenitis archippus, not of this specimenLimenitis archippus Cramer, 17751923Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Thornburg Station, Valley View, Cuyahoga Co., OH
A photograph of the species Oecanthus latipennis, not of this specimenOecanthus latipennis Riley, 18811923Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Thornburg Station, Valley View, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Oecanthus nigricornis Walker, 18691923Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Thornburg Station, Valley View, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Tropidia quadrata (Say, 1824)1923Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Thornburg Station, Valley View, Cuyahoga Co., OH

All 599 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Widowville: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bolin and Son Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bolin and Son Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lucas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lucas Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Weber MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms nearby

2 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Widowville in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
November 2017Tornado (EF1)Widowville$150,000An EF0 tornado touched down in rural Ashland County near the intersection of U.S. Route 30 and State Route 511. Some hardwood trees at that location were either toppled or damage. The tornado then intensified to EF1 strength as it continued east northeast across open farmland. A farm wagon was tossed and destroyed by the tornado and a cow was thrown and sustained a broken leg. The tornado heavily damaged a home along State Route 60 about a third of a mile north of U.S. 30. The house lost about half of its roof and had a brick chimney toppled. Some windows were blown out and the house lost siding on all four sides. An adjacent car port was leveled and a large overhead door in a nearby garage was blown in. The 90 year old occupant of the house was not injured. After striking the house, the tornado weakened and eventually lifted just east of State Route 60. The damage path from this tornado was just over two miles in length.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWidowville$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree. The tree blocked a road between Hayesville and Mifflin.

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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
Charles Mill2.7 miles13
Yacht Point Cottage Area2.7 miles13
South Peninsula Cottage Area2.8 miles15
Mifflin Cottage Area2.8 miles15
Mifflin3.0 miles15
Hayesville3.3 miles15
McKay4.9 miles13
Perrysville6.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061776. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.