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

Williams Corners, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stonelick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45103. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle.

Williams Corners within Clermont County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Williams Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Williams Corners, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,981 shown

Museums hold 1,981 specimens collected within 10 miles of Williams Corners between 1850 and 1975: 1,053 Fungi, 781 Animalia, 94 Plantae, 49 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A JOHN, A JOHN AND R KNOTTS 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 Ipomoea lacunosa L.Ipomoea lacunosa L.1877Joseph Francis JamesLoveland
Specimen of Puccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) ArthurPuccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Arthur1878James, F.Loveland
Specimen of Apophthisis pullata Braun, 1915Apophthisis pullata Braun, 19151929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Fomes applanatus, not of this specimenFomes applanatus (Pers.) Fr.1850James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Asarum canadense, not of this specimenAsarum canadense L.1877Mohr, MarieClermont County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Eragrostis cilianensis, not of this specimenEragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.1877James, J.F.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1877James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Rumex altissimus, not of this specimenRumex altissimus Wood1877J. F. JamesLoveland.
A photograph of the species Trifolium stoloniferum, not of this specimenTrifolium stoloniferum Muhl.1877J. F. JamesMiamiville
A photograph of the species Fomes scutellatus, not of this specimenFomes scutellatus (Schwein.) Cooke1878James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Justicia americana, not of this specimenJusticia americana (L.) Vahl1878Lloyd, Curtis GatesLoveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus adustus, not of this specimenPolyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland

All 1,981 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Williams Corners: 2 producers. All of them 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
Brewer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kipp Gravel Pit & Mill No 16Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clermont County

Storms nearby

5 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Williams Corners in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2012Tornado (EF0)Williams Corners$40,000The tornado touched down near the intersection of Route 131 and Belfast-Owensville Road. Three homes and a barn with a garage sustained anywhere from minor to major roof damage. A porch was lifted from a home and thrown several yards. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum wind speed of this tornado was estimated at 70 to 75 miles per hour.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWilliams Corners$10,000Multiple trees were knocked down onto Wild Rose Lane in Stonelick Township.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWilliams Corners$1,000A large tree was knocked down in Stonelick Township.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWilliams Corners$1,000One tree two feet in diameter was downed due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2017Flash FloodWilliams Corners-High water resulted in a road closure near the 2200 block of Cedarville Road.

Every storm recorded in Clermont 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
Ashdale0.5 miles16
Belfast1.5 miles16
Elenor1.9 miles16
Craver2.3 miles16
Modest3.2 miles15
Day Heights3.5 miles16
Pringle Corners3.6 miles15
Owensville3.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058143. 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.

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.