Williams Center, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1986

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.

• 1914 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 264 specimens collected within 10 miles of Williams Center between 1893 and 1974: 240 Animalia, 23 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Anson A. Hinkley, C.H. Kennedy 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
	Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Edgerton
	Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)	1916	Anson A. Hinkley	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, North America
	Gomphus laurae (Williamson, 1932)	1946	H. Price	St. Joseph's River, St. Joseph Township, taken near mouth of Fish Creek
	Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)	1893	not recorded	Edgerton, Fish Lake
	Apalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)	1893	not recorded	Edgerton
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
	Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)	1893	not recorded	Edgerton, Fish Lake
	Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
	Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
	Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	St. Josephs River, Edgerton, Ohio
	Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1902	W. A. Kellerman	Edgerton
	Piggotia fraxini Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1902	Kellerman W. A.	Edgerton

All 264 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061781. 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.

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