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Williamsfield, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Williamsfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44093. The Survey maps it on the Andover quadrangle. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Williamsfield within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Williamsfield, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Williamsfield, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 85 shown

Museums hold 85 specimens collected within 10 miles of Williamsfield between 1895 and 1974: 69 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bogue, E.E., C. B. Hellquist, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 Calicium quercinum Pers.Calicium quercinum Pers.1895Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Schizophyllum commune Fr.Schizophyllum commune Fr.1896F. D. KelseyWilliamsfield.; 41.533387 -80.570629
A photograph of the species Calicium lenticulare, not of this specimenCalicium lenticulare Ach.1895E. E. BogueWayne
A photograph of the species Dendroica discolor, not of this specimenDendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)1895Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Melanohalea olivacea, not of this specimenMelanohalea olivacea (L.) O.Blanco, A.Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D.Hawksw. & Lumbsch1895Bogue, E.E.Wayne
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1895Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Culaea inconstans, not of this specimenCulaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, west of Andover, ~3.9 mi W of Andover, Cherry Valley township

All 85 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Williamsfield: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
Kinsman S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Ashtabula County

Storms nearby

7 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Williamsfield in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWilliamsfield-Numerous large trees downed between Andover and Williamsfield.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindWilliamsfield-Barn collapsed about one-mile east of Williamsfield.
August 2014HailWilliamsfield-Quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2019HailWilliamsfield-no account filed
May 2000HailWilliamsfield-no account filed
May 1998HailWilliamsfield-no account filed
June 1994HailWilliamsfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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
Simons2.0 miles18
West Williamsfield2.0 miles18
Wick4.1 miles17
Andover Country Meadows5.1 miles18
Andover5.1 miles18
Wayne5.1 miles17
Mann5.4 miles17
West Andover5.5 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on WilliamsfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8021198The 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 1061783. 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.