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Williamsport, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44432. It stands on Middle Fork Little Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle.

Williamsport within Columbiana County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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 Williamsport, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Williamsport, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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.

In the county-history sources

15,049 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1811, William Crawford built a grist- and saw-mill below Williamsport. David Hanna put up a carding-machine on the creek north of the Georgetown road, and not long after that James Cocker put up a similar machine lower down on the same stream. William McLane built a bridge across the creek in 1815, near Bough's mill, at what is now West Point. Aaron Brooks built a grist-mill on the west fork of Beaver at an early date, and in 1 837 sold to Mr. Hamilton, after whom the property passed to parties who proposed to bore for oil there, but abandoned the project and sold the mill to Wellsville people, by whom it was removed to the latter place and made to do duty as a steammill.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

28, George Ogilvie, Sr., Andrew Adams, Charles McLean, and Angus McBane were the first settlers. Angus Mc- Bane entered also the quarter in section 21 now owned by Jonathan Mick. F. McIntosh lives on section 21 where Duncan Davidson settled, and where subsequently Daniel McIntosh, Sr., resided. Mr. McIntosh was an elder in the Yellow Creek church, and lived in Madison until his death. The adjoining quarter on the north was originally set apart as school land, and was sold to Arnold Vanfossan, from whom it descended to his grandson, Joseph Vanfossan, the present owner. John Stewart, who settled upon section 21, was a carpenter, and put the roof upon the first Yellow Creek church.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Madison Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Fires near this place

37 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Williamsport between 2005 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15273
21 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15816
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1181
4 May 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1741
7 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15128
4 April 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15713

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 720 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 720 specimens collected within 10 miles of Williamsport between 1895 and 1975: 473 Animalia, 226 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Albert Peyron, Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W. 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 Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.SalmonSphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon1916E.K. SeymourLower campus
Specimen of Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) MurrillIrpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill1917OverholtsW. Elkton
Specimen of Polyporus galactinus Berk.Polyporus galactinus Berk.1917OverholtsW. Elkton
A photograph of the species Polyporus luridus, not of this specimenPolyporus luridus Kalchbr.1895Holden Wm.Spring Grove
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedEast Liverpool
A photograph of the species Plantago rugelii, not of this specimenPlantago rugelii Decne.1899Shafer, J.A.Lisbon
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1900Shafer, J.A.[Glasglow], Smiths Ferry
A photograph of the species Alnus serrulata, not of this specimenAlnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, Near Clarkson , Ohio.
A photograph of the species Antennaria plantaginifolia, not of this specimenAntennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Epigaea repens, not of this specimenEpigaea repens L.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Hetaerina americana, not of this specimenHetaerina americana (Fabricius, 1798)1901E. B. WilliamsonClarkson
Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901E. WilliamsonMiddle fork Little Beaver, Mahominy County, Ohio

All 720 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Middle Beaver (historical)0.7 miles20
Clarkson2.0 miles22
Campus2.2 miles20
Rock Camp2.5 miles20
Sprucevale3.1 miles22
Cannons Mill3.2 miles22
West Point3.7 miles20
East Carmel3.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061785. 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.