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

Willettsville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45142. The Survey maps it on the New Vienna quadrangle.

Willettsville within Highland County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Willettsville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Willettsville, surveyed 1917

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.

Fires nearby

3 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Willettsville between 2002 and 2007, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 April 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 February 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 November 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 746 shown

Museums hold 746 specimens collected within 10 miles of Willettsville between 1894 and 1973: 529 Animalia, 165 Fungi, 39 Plantae, 12 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14521, A. Braun, Adams, J. (Joe) & Hutchins, E. (Edward) 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Entyloma compositarum Farl.	1894	F. L. Stevens	Highland Falls.
Aecidium asterum Schwein.	1895	F.L. Stevens
Puccinia podophylli Schwein.	1895	F. L. Stevens	Highland County
Dizygopleura Ulrich & Bassler, 1923 (fossil)	1921	Bucher & E. Ulrich	.5mi W Of Sinking Spring (Thin Cherty Layer In Lower Part Of Bisher Member)
Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899	1922	Cooke, William Bridge	Seven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
Cladonia coniocraea (Flörke) Spreng.	1923	Braun, E. Lucy	Klock's Crossing
Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Cololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans	1924	M. A. Taylor
Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi	1924	M. A. Taylor
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1926	not recorded

All 746 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Willettsville: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
New Vienna Mill & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Highland Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
New Vienna Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Highland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sharpsville (historical)	2.5 miles	11
Russell	2.7 miles	13
Hoagland	3.5 miles	13
Fairview	3.6 miles	13
Fallsville (historical)	4.7 miles	11
Lynchburg	4.8 miles	12
Allensburg	5.2 miles	12
Gist Settlement	5.3 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q122566133

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 1063096. 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.